Location: Stafford | Contract Type: Permanent | Working Pattern: Full-Time | Office Based
Pay / Benefits: Remuneration for this role is benchmarked competitively within our sector.
The Opportunity
OCU is delivering some of the UK's most significant power infrastructure projects, supporting the development and resilience of the national electricity network. As a Quantity Surveyor, you'll play a key role in ensuring the commercial success of these projects, providing cost control, contract management, and commercial support from project award through to final account.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing team delivering National Grid infrastructure projects under NEC contracts. You'll work closely with project delivery teams, clients, and supply chain partners to drive value, manage risk, and contribute to the successful delivery of critical infrastructure programmes.
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Manage the commercial performance of allocated infrastructure projects throughout their lifecycle.
- Administer NEC contracts, including Compensation Events, Early Warning Notices, and payment applications.
- Produce accurate cost reports, forecasts, CVRs, and commercial performance updates.
- Manage subcontract procurement, valuations, payments, and final accounts.
- Identify and manage commercial risks and opportunities to maximise project performance.
- Support project teams with contractual advice and commercial guidance.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, suppliers, and internal stakeholders.
- Negotiate and agree project and subcontract final accounts.
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Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying or a related discipline.
- Previous experience as a Quantity Surveyor within utilities, infrastructure, construction, engineering, or a similar sector.
- Experience working under NEC3 and/or NEC4 contracts.
- Strong commercial awareness and understanding of cost management principles.
- Excellent negotiation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office applications.
- Full UK driving licence.
- Experience working on National Grid, transmission, or major infrastructure projects.
- Bonus if you have experience managing Compensation Events and Early Warning processes under NEC contracts.
- It would be great if you have experience preparing CVRs, forecasts, and commercial reporting for complex projects.
- It would be great if you've worked within regulated utility or framework environments.
- Working towards or holding professional accreditation with RICS, CICES, or a similar body would be advantageous.
At OCU, we believe that meaningful work should come with meaningful support. That's the principle behind Careers with Purpose, our commitment to ensuring every person at OCU feels supported, developed, and valued, not just in their role today, but throughout their career with us.
Alongside the opportunity to work on some of the UK's most significant infrastructure projects, we offer a benefits package that we are continuing to develop as we grow, and the kind of career acceleration that only comes from being inside a business moving at this pace.
As a rapidly growing organisation, there are genuine opportunities to progress, broaden your experience, and build a long-term career within OCU Group.
For a confidential conversation about this opportunity, please contact
Jonathan Bryden at
[email protected].
Our vacancies are typically advertised for two weeks; however, we reserve the right to close applications early should we receive a sufficient number of suitable candidates. We therefore encourage early applications.
At OCU Group, we don’t just deliver infrastructure - we help power modern life.
As one of the UK’s fastest-growing utility and infrastructure businesses, we deliver complex, nationally critical projects across power, energy transition, water, telecoms, and digital infrastructure. Over the last five years, OCU has grown five-fold to a £1.1bn organisation, expanding both organically and through strategic acquisitions across the UK, Australia, New Zealand and India.
Our growth is driven by ambitious people, operational excellence, and a commitment to doing things properly. We work on projects that genuinely matter by supporting the UK’s energy transition, strengthening essential infrastructure, and helping build more sustainable communities for the future.
Whether you’re an experienced professional looking to take ownership of major projects and influence delivery at scale, or someone starting your career through an apprenticeship, graduate programme, or placement route, OCU offers real opportunity to grow, develop, and make an impact.
We are building a business where high performance, collaboration, innovation, and accountability sit at the centre of our culture. Our people are trusted to lead, encouraged to challenge thinking, and supported to continuously develop their skills and careers.
At OCU, you won’t just join a growing business, you’ll help shape it.
Our Culture & Values
At OCU, our values are at the heart of everything we do. We care about safety, lead with integrity, strive to be better every day, make a positive impact, and deliver to grow, together, as One Company United.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
At OCU Group, we believe diversity, inclusion, and belonging are fundamental to building stronger teams, better ideas, and a more successful business. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels valued and supported.
As part of our commitment to fairness and equality, candidates may be asked to complete an equal opportunities monitoring form during the recruitment process. This information is used for monitoring purposes only and plays no part in hiring decisions.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and are committed to offering interviews to candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions who meet the essential criteria for the role.
To ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to join our team, please inform us if you require any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment and interview process is, by emailing
[email protected].
