About the role
Job Title: Quantity Surveyor
Location: Inverness
Company: Balfour Beatty - Regional Scotland
Project: Nairn Academy
Join Balfour Beatty’s North Scotland Building team as a Quantity Surveyor, supporting the successful delivery of one of our key education projects in the Highlands — Nairn Academy.
The Project: Nairn Academy
We are currently on site at Nairn Academy, a major school redevelopment forming part of our strategic growth in the North. This project sits alongside significant ongoing and upcoming work in the region, including HMP Highland and preconstruction activity for Forres (£80m), making this an exciting time to join our experienced commercial team.
As the QS, you'll play a key role in ensuring commercial excellence across this modern education facility, helping us deliver a high‑quality learning environment for the community.
The Role
As a Quantity Surveyor, you will manage all project costs and income within your area of responsibility, support procurement, and contribute to commercial strategy and reporting across the project. You will work closely with the wider project team and external supply chain partners to ensure best value and robust commercial governance.
You may also support and mentor less experienced commercial team members.
What you'll be doing
Key Responsibilities
- Manage costs, income, and financial reporting for your work packages.
- Measure, value and interpret works information, drawings and specifications.
- Prepare Bills of Quantities, cost reconciliations, and estimates from first principles.
- Use digital systems and ERP platforms to manage data and reporting.
- Support procurement activities — subcontract enquiries, adjudication and award.
- Understand and manage customer contracts, stakeholder engagement and variations.
- Contribute to planning commercial activities aligned to project programme requirements.
Who we're looking for
- BSc/MSc in Quantity Surveying (or equivalent).
- CSCS (Academically/Professionally Qualified).
- MRICS/MCInstCES/MCIOB or working toward qualification.
- Strong measurement, commercial administration and procurement capability.
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with the wider project team.
Why Join Us in Inverness?
- Be part of a flagship school project, delivering meaningful outcomes for the community.
- Opportunity to grow within a high‑performing North Scotland commercial team
- A varied regional pipeline offering long‑term career stability across the Highlands.
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 Regional Scotland please go to www.balfourbeatty.com/careers/Scotland - 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 some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
About us
From Dunfermline’s tramways in 1909 to highland hospitals today, Balfour Beatty has been trusted for over a century to deliver the complex and critical infrastructure and iconic buildings Scotland relies on.
We have the people, knowledge and experience to safely deliver projects right first time, maximising value for money and ensuring a positive social impact and inclusive economic growth for local communities.
Our award-winning sustainable projects, including active travel, Passivhaus and retrofit, demonstrate our commitment to supporting Scotland’s transition towards net zero in the built environment.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
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. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [email protected]
Job Reference: BBUK17000
