About the role
Job Title: Senior Quantity Surveyor - Balvac
Location: Warrington
Company: Balfour Beatty – Balvac
Join Balvac – Proud Custodians of the UK’s Infrastructure
Balvac, part of Balfour Beatty, is a leading specialist in structural maintenance, asset strengthening, concrete repair, and refurbishment across the UK. Our teams work on some of the country’s most important highways, bridges, tunnels, and critical infrastructure—keeping people moving safely and reliably.
With over 90 years of expertise, Balvac is known for delivering technically challenging projects with innovation, precision, and a culture of integrity. If you’re passionate about helping extend the life of the nation’s infrastructure while developing your own career, this is the place to be.
The Opportunity
We’re looking for an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor with strong NEC contract experience.
In this role, you’ll play a key part in managing commercial performance, leading our commercial team, and supporting successful delivery across a diverse portfolio of projects. You’ll be office-based in Warrington 2–3 days per week, working closely with operational teams, subcontractors, clients, and senior leadership.
What you'll be doing
Key Responsibilities
As a Senior QS, you will:
- Lead and support a team of Quantity Surveyors and Commercial Administrators.
- Manage subcontractor accounts, including dispute resolution where required.
- Drive value maximisation through effective change control and contract management.
- Ensure accurate weekly cost reporting, valuations, and WIP management.
- Prepare payment applications and support the business in achieving cash flow targets.
- Provide commercial insight to Project Managers, Contracts Managers, and the Commercial Manager.
- Support annual budget preparation, monthly reforecasting, and profit & loss reporting.
- Build strong relationships with clients, supply chain partners, and internal stakeholders.
Who we're looking for
- Proven experience as a Quantity Surveyor or Senior QS—ideally within structural repair, concrete remediation, highways, infrastructure, civil engineering, or similar technical environments aligned with Balvac’s work.
- Strong working knowledge of NEC4 contracts (essential).
- Skilled in developing and managing subcontracts and commercial agreements.
- Highly organised, analytical, and confident communicating with stakeholders at all levels.
- Strong IT skills (Word, Excel) and clear, professional presentation abilities.
- A team player with integrity, accuracy, and a proactive approach to problem solving.
Why Balvac?
At Balvac, you’ll join a collaborative team that values innovation, expertise, and continuous improvement. You’ll have the freedom to shape your role, contribute to nationally significant projects, and grow within the wider Balfour Beatty organisation—one of the UK’s largest and most respected infrastructure groups.
You’ll also be part of a culture built on safety, integrity, and respect, where everyone is encouraged to reach their full potential.
Professional and personal development
The size and scale of Balfour Beatty coupled with our strong pipeline of work provides incredible opportunities, regardless of what stage you are at in your career.
We encourage and empower our employees to take control of their career and explore which part of the business they want to work in and what role is right for them. We actively encourage our managers and employees to have open communication throughout the year about wellbeing, development and career opportunities.
We're proud of the Balfour Beatty Academy. Whether it’s sharpening your technical expertise, improving your personal skills or seeking support to become professionally qualified, our 70:20:10* approach to development means we have a learning approach that suits everyone.
- 70% learning on the job, 20% learning from those around you, and 10% formal training courses and learning events.
For further information about Balfour Beatty Balvac please go to www.balvac.co.uk. You can also check out further job opportunities in the careers section
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Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.
About us
Balvac is a leading specialist structural repair, strengthening and refurbishment contractor and wholly owned subsidiary of the Balfour Beatty Group. We value diversity and celebrate individual differences, believing that our inclusive culture helps the business continue to grow as a strong, dynamic and innovative organisation.
Our core business is the structural repair strengthening, protection and refurbishment of existing civil and building structure across the UK. We are active in highways, rail infrastructure, power including nuclear licensed sites and industrial facilities.
Specialist capabilities include: Concrete repair, including wet and dry spray concrete, Crack injection, Leak sealing injection, Structural strengthening including the use of FRP composite materials, Corrosion Protection and Cathodic Protection, Post tensioning to bridges, tanks and nuclear reactor vessels, Concrete carriageway rehabilitation using vacuum assisted void grouting and slab realignment techniques.
At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.
Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
Job Reference: BBUK17526
