Job Description:

Senior Quantity Surveyor - Heathrow
Long Term Contract
£500 - £650 Day Rate

About the Role
We're looking for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to lead the commercial management of design-related change across major Heathrow airport programmes. You'll join a multidisciplinary consultancy environment, identifying, pricing, negotiating and agreeing changes that arise from design development, scope evolution and client instructions.

You'll be a trusted commercial partner to engineering, planning, project controls and client teams, challenging and supporting design teams to make sure changes are well substantiated, commercially recoverable and in line with contractual entitlements.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the commercial assessment of design development and change across Heathrow programmes
• Work with engineering and design teams to identify change and risk at the earliest stage
• Prepare and manage change submissions, compensation events, instructions and variations
• Advise on contractual entitlement and maintain compliance with NEC requirements
• Negotiate with clients, delivery partners and contractors through to final account settlement
• Challenge scope growth and present cost impacts and option appraisals to support decisions
• Maintain change registers and governance processes

Key Requirements

• Significant experience as a Senior QS or in change management on major infrastructure programmes
• Strong experience managing the commercial impact of design development and engineering change
• Detailed knowledge of NEC contracts, particularly compensation events
• Ability to interpret engineering designs, scope documents and technical reports
• Experience in multidisciplinary design, consultancy or complex programme environments
• Strong negotiation and stakeholder management skills
• Desirable: Heathrow, aviation, rail or major infrastructure experience, MRICS, MCICES or equivalent, and project controls experience

If you're a commercially astute Senior QS who is comfortable in technical design environments and understands how design drives cost and programme, we'd love to hear from you.

To apply, please submit your CV or feel free to reach out for a confidential conversation. Send an email to (url removed), give me a call on (phone number removed) or WhatsApp me on (phone number removed).