Senior Quantity Surveyor

Job Title:               Senior Quantity Surveyor 
Location:               Warrington, Cheshire + Hybrid Working Arrangement 
Compensation:     Competitive + Benefits
Role Type:            Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:                SF64991

Driving Commercial Excellence Across Complex Projects 

At Cavendish Nuclear we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Quantity Surveyor, at our Warrington site.

The role
As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will be utilising your commercial expertise in support of the client for a major decommissioning project. This offers an excellent opportunity to further develop within a quantity surveying discipline as part of a growing project.

Day-to-day, you’ll be responsible for overseeing commercial activities, such as contract change and administration, amongst provision of commercial advice and guidance.

• Provide expert commercial support across projects, managing activities such as bid governance, reviews, change management, and contractual notices.
• Ensure compliance with internal processes and contractual obligations, liaising with Heads of Commercial and customers as required.
• Partner with Project Managers to deliver all commercial aspects, driving value and mitigating risk.
• Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships, aligning objectives and fostering collaborative goal-setting.
• Interpret head contract terms and conditions, ensuring effective flow-down to the subcontract supply chain and proactive compliance management.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with three days in the office/onsite and two days working from home and is based at our Birchwood, Warrington hub.

Essential experience of the Senior Quantity Surveyor:

• Proven experience in Quantity Surveying with strong commercial acumen
• Expertise in supporting projects and delivering change using recognised methodologies
• In-depth knowledge of standard contract forms, including NEC3
• Ability to align business requirements with effective sourcing strategies
• Solid understanding of commercial administration within regulated industries

Qualifications for the Senior Quantity Surveyor:

• Educated to degree level (or equivalent) in Quantity Surveying or have a relevant degree 

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role. 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 ten 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing

Cavendish Nuclear
As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, provides a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions in clean energy, defence and civil new build and decommissioning projects. Together, we’re innovating to make nuclear safer, faster and cost-effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. Your career with us could take you anywhere within Babcock International Group – from Canada, the USA to Japan. Work with us to create a safe and secure world, 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: 15/12/2025

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