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Senior Quantity Surveyor

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AVK-SEG is a market leading specialist contractor delivering power infrastructure for data centres across the UK. Our commercial teams oversee pricing, partnerships, supply chain, contracts, and manage the profitability of our major projects.

We are recruiting a Senior QS to take full commercial ownership of major power and critical infrastructure projects, based in the UK with occasional travel to Europe.

This is a hybrid delivery role, based 3 days per week in the office or client site (which could include ad-hoc overseas working). You will be embedded with the project team, running jobs commercially from procurement through to final account.

Role Responsibilities

  • Full project commercial control from contract award to final account
  • Subcontract procurement, negotiation and contract placement
  • Subcontractor account management, valuation, payment and final account
  • Client applications and valuations
  • Cost control, forecasting and CVRs/CBRs
  • Variations, claims and change management
  • Programme and cost recovery
  • Risk management
  • Commercial support to PMs and engineers

Requirements

Essential:

  • Proven experience running large construction or infrastructure projects commercially (5+ years)
  • Strong subcontract background
  • 5+ years managing £20m+ projects from start to finish
  • Full final account experience (client and subcontract)
  • Strong cost control and forecasting
  • Variations and claims experience
  • Comfortable running multiple packages and projects in parallel
  • Experience leading and managing QSs (or ready to step into that)
  • Commercially sharp
  • Delivery focused
  • Strong Excel and commercial reporting capability
  • Comfortable leading and coaching others to achieve common goals

Preferred

  • Project experience in Data Centres, Critical Power, Standby Generation and Power Infrastructure
  • Sector experience in Logistics, Installation and Commissioning
  • Delivery in Engineering, Procurement and Construction projects
  • Variations and claims experience
  • Comfortable running multiple packages and projects in parallel
  • Experience leading and managing QSs (or ready to step into that)

Benefits

10% Company Bonus

Private Healthcare

Life Insurance (4 x Base Salary)

5%:5% Pension

26 days annual leave (incl. Birthday off/Xmas Closures) + Bank Holidays

Senior Quantity Surveyor

AVK
London, UK
Full-Time

Published on 25/01/2026

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