Senior Quantity Surveyor

Salary: £70,695 per annum

Location: Flexible - able to travel throughout our operating region

Hours: 37 hours per week

Position Type: {Advertised Full Time / Part Time}

Expiry Date: 02/06/2026 23:59

The Vacancy

We are seeking an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor to provide commercial leadership across a diverse portfolio of investment delivery projects and programmes. This is a pivotal role, working at the heart of our delivery teams to ensure projects are delivered with strong financial control, robust governance, and demonstrable value for money.

If you thrive in a collaborative environment, enjoy influencing outcomes, and are passionate about commercial excellence, this role offers the opportunity to make a real impact.

The Role

As Senior Quantity Surveyor, you will lead the commercial and cost management aspects of projects from inception through to completion. Working closely with internal project and Planned Delivery Teams, you will ensure confident financial decision-making, effective risk management, and transparent reporting throughout the project lifecycle.

You will act as a trusted commercial adviser, shaping strategy, driving improvements in processes, and strengthening commercial governance across investment delivery activities.

Key responsibilities within the role will include:

• Providing commercial leadership and support across investment delivery projects and programmes
• Leading on cost planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial control
• Monitoring expenditure, identifying variances, and implementing corrective actions
• Overseeing contract administration, ensuring compliance with contractual terms
• Supporting procurement activities, including tender preparation, evaluation, and contract award
• Managing valuations, applications for payment, variations, change controls and final accounts
• Identifying, managing, and mitigating commercial and financial risks

About You

You are a commercially astute professional with strong technical knowledge and the confidence to challenge costs, influence stakeholders, and safeguard value for money. You bring a structured, analytical approach and enjoy working collaboratively within complex delivery environments.

Suitable candidates will hold the following qualifications and experience -

• Degree (or equivalent) in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, or a related discipline
• Professional membership of RICS (or working towards – desirable)
• Significant experience in a Quantity Surveying or commercial management role
• Experience across the full project lifecycle within construction, property, or capital investment
• Background in housing, planned maintenance, or capital investment programmes (desirable)
• Strong knowledge of cost planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial control
• Proven experience managing contracts, valuations, variations, and final accounts
• Practical experience of JCT and/or NEC contract forms
• Experience supporting or leading procurement and contractor selection
• Strong understanding of commercial risk management and mitigation
• Experience producing accurate financial reports and cash flow analysis
• Ability to manage contractor and supply chain performance
• Strong IT skills, particularly Microsoft Excel and commercial systems

This role is a hybrid role enabling you to base yourself from home.  You will be suitably located within our operating region to enable travel and will hold a full UK driving licence and have access to a vehicle for work purposes.

Our operating region includes Hampshire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall and London.

What’s in it for me

We invest in our colleagues because we know if they have a better day at work, the service our customers receive will be better. The Aster Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes things like:

• Flexible working – whilst some roles need to be carried out in a specific place at a specific time, where possible we encourage our colleagues to work to their own schedule at a location that suits them, their team and our business’ needs
• A focus on colleague wellbeing – workshops, an employee assistance programme offering counselling and support, mental health training and a health cash plan
• We invest in colleagues’ careers and development through our leader and colleague development frameworks
• Defined Contribution Pension and attached life assurance
• Volunteering hours available to all colleagues to enable them to give back
• Savings at cinemas, gyms, holidays, days out, various shops and eateries and lots more
• Enhanced leave
• We celebrate colleagues who go above and beyond with a range of personalised recognition initiatives

Ready to apply?

To apply, please use information provided in the advert and role profile to let us know why you’d be good for the job. Please submit a copy of your up-to-date CV along with a supporting statement.

We create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity and believe that creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work is the right thing to do.

All candidates will be required to verify their right to work in the UK prior to commencement of employment with the Aster Group & it’s subsidiary brands.

The Company

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