Senior Quantity Surveyor

Job Title:                     Senior Quality Surveyor

Location:                     Devonport, Plymouth + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:            £44,600 -  £55,800 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF74623

Shape the Future of National Infrastructure and Defence

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Quantity Surveyor at Devonport Royal Dockyard, near Plymouth, Devon.

The role

As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you'll play a key role in delivering some of the UK's most complex and strategically important infrastructure programmes within our Naval Nuclear business. This is more than a traditional quantity surveying position. You'll provide commercial leadership across major engineering and construction projects that directly support national defence and security.

Working alongside project teams, Ministry of Defence stakeholders and supply chain partners, you'll help drive successful project outcomes through effective commercial management, contract administration and risk mitigation. This is an exciting opportunity to develop your career in a highly regulated, technically challenging environment while contributing to programmes that make a real difference.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Managing commercial activities across infrastructure, engineering and construction projects
• Supporting contract administration, cost control, change management and compensation events
• Collaborating with project managers, suppliers and stakeholders to maximise value and ensure contractual compliance
• Identifying, assessing and mitigating commercial risks while protecting Babcock's commercial position
• Delivering commercial reporting, governance activities and strategic commercial support throughout the project lifecycle

This role is full time, 35 hours per week provides hybrid working arrangements with on average 3 days onsite and the rest of week working from home.

Essential experience of the Senior Quality Surveyor

• Demonstrating strong commercial management experience within engineering and/or construction environments
• Applying detailed knowledge of NEC3 and/or JCT contracts within project delivery settings
• Supporting large, complex contracts, bids and commercial strategies
• Managing cost control, change management and compensation events
• Building effective relationships with project teams, supply chain partners and senior stakeholders

Qualifications for the Senior Quality Surveyor

• Degree (or equivalent) in Quantity Surveying or Building Services Quantity Surveying

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. UK Sole National only.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your 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).

What we offer 

• 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 is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘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
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

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.

Closing date: 16/07/2026