Senior Quantity Surveyor

Senior Quantity Surveyor

Location: Warrington, Cheshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role ID: SF72749

Closing date: 05/06/2026

About the role

Shape the future of nuclear defence through expert commercial leadership. As a Senior Quantity Surveyor at Cavendish Nuclear, you'll provide expert commercial leadership across major projects within our Nuclear Defence Support programme. You'll work closely with clients, suppliers, project teams and senior stakeholders to deliver value, manage risk, and drive commercial excellence from bid stage through to final account.

This is a full-time role of 37 hours per week with hybrid working arrangements: three days onsite and two days working from home.

Responsibilities

• Provide commercial management and guidance across projects, supporting Quantity Surveyors and project teams
• Lead contract reviews, subcontract drafting and commercial governance activities
• Manage tender processes and commercial evaluations for complex equipment and service providers
• Oversee post-contract commercial performance, including change management and subcontractor claims
• Deliver final account settlements while protecting commercial and contractual interests

Requirements

Essential experience:

• Strong experience in commercial management within engineering, construction or infrastructure environments
• Proven expertise working with NEC3 contracts
• Experience supporting large-scale, complex projects and contract delivery
• Ability to manage commercial risk and apply sound judgement in challenging environments
• Experience mentoring or supporting the development of junior colleagues

Qualifications:

• Educated to degree level (or equivalent) in Quantity Surveying or Building Services Quantity Surveying

Security clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many positions within the company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. Eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement (window opens February through to March annually)
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing

About Cavendish Nuclear

Cavendish Nuclear is a trusted delivery partner across clean energy, defence and nuclear decommissioning. We are a team of approximately 5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group. Our work underpins national security and long-term energy resilience, creating meaningful careers at the forefront of UK infrastructure.

Diversity and inclusion

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.