Quantity Surveyor - Aberdeen / Peterhead
Posted 25 days ago
- Aberdeen, Scotland
- Any
- External
- Expires In 2 months
About the role
Job Title: Quantity Surveyor
Location: North East of Scotland - Peterhead / Aberdeen, Scotland
Company: Balfour Beatty Group Employment Limited (UK)
The role is needed to support new work emerging in particular HV/DC Substations located in the North of Scotland. Role is more suited to a Construction background, though a familiarity with civils work also desirable.
About Us:
Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure group. We finance, develop, build, and maintain innovative and efficient infrastructure that underpins daily life, supports communities, and enables economic growth. Our unparalleled expertise and resources ensure that we deliver high-quality projects safely, on time, and within budget.
Role Purpose:
As a Quantity Surveyor based in Peterhead, you will be integral to managing all costs related to building and civil engineering projects. You will support senior commercial team members and take charge of procuring and managing our supply chain. The goal is to minimize project costs while enhancing value for money, ensuring high standards and quality for our customers.
Ideally, you are chartered or in the final stages of achieving professional membership with RICS, ICES, or CIOB, serving as a peer role model for less experienced team members.
What you'll be doing
Key Responsibilities:
Governance: Adhere to company governance, including GMCEs and BMS.
Analytical Thinking & Decision Making: Systematically check and order information.
Cost Engineering: Measure, record, and value work unsupervised according to rules and procedures.
Estimating: Interpret specifications and drawings, build up estimates from first principles, and prepare Bills of Quantities.
Planning: Review and plan commercial activities according to project timelines, including understanding delay and disruption programs.
Project Management: Utilize the company's ERP system for cost and value information collation and cost reconciliation statements.
Procurement: Collect and document procurement information, understand the required steps and documentation.
Commercial Management: Manage customer and stakeholder relationships, measure works, and agree with subcontractors.
Development Recruitment and Retention: Maintain a personal development plan, support the development of others, and work towards professional membership.
Who we're looking for
Essential Qualifications:
BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying or equivalent experience.
Desirable Qualities/Experience:
Excellent communication skills.
Strong teamwork abilities.
Achievement-focused mindset.
Previous commercial work experience.
Industry knowledge in energy, nuclear, or large-scale complex structure builds.
Balfour Beatty Behaviours:
Energy: Create pace and momentum in the right direction.
Edge: Have the courage to make tough decisions.
Excite: Engage and inspire the team to tackle seemingly impossible challenges.
Execute: Ensure the job is done well and efficiently.
Empowerment: Provide direction and support without micromanaging.
Empathise: Listen, understand, and adjust.
At Balfour Beatty, we are committed to creating an environment where you can thrive. We offer opportunities for continuous development, competitive salaries, and benefits, and the chance to work on high-profile projects that shape the infrastructure landscape.
Join us and be part of a team that makes a difference in building a better future.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
About us
From Dunfermline’s tramways in 1909 to highland hospitals today, Balfour Beatty has been trusted for over a century to deliver the complex and critical infrastructure and iconic buildings Scotland relies on.
We have the people, knowledge and experience to safely deliver projects right first time, maximising value for money and ensuring a positive social impact and inclusive economic growth for local communities.
Our award-winning sustainable projects, including active travel, Passivhaus and retrofit, demonstrate our commitment to supporting Scotland’s transition towards net zero in the built environment.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit
We are a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit:
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at
Job Title: Quantity Surveyor
Location: North East of Scotland - Peterhead / Aberdeen, Scotland
Company: Balfour Beatty Group Employment Limited (UK)
The role is needed to support new work emerging in particular HV/DC Substations located in the North of Scotland. Role is more suited to a Construction background, though a familiarity with civils work also desirable.
About Us:
Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure group. We finance, develop, build, and maintain innovative and efficient infrastructure that underpins daily life, supports communities, and enables economic growth. Our unparalleled expertise and resources ensure that we deliver high-quality projects safely, on time, and within budget.
Role Purpose:
As a Quantity Surveyor based in Peterhead, you will be integral to managing all costs related to building and civil engineering projects. You will support senior commercial team members and take charge of procuring and managing our supply chain. The goal is to minimize project costs while enhancing value for money, ensuring high standards and quality for our customers.
Ideally, you are chartered or in the final stages of achieving professional membership with RICS, ICES, or CIOB, serving as a peer role model for less experienced team members.
What you'll be doing
Key Responsibilities:
Governance: Adhere to company governance, including GMCEs and BMS.
Analytical Thinking & Decision Making: Systematically check and order information.
Cost Engineering: Measure, record, and value work unsupervised according to rules and procedures.
Estimating: Interpret specifications and drawings, build up estimates from first principles, and prepare Bills of Quantities.
Planning: Review and plan commercial activities according to project timelines, including understanding delay and disruption programs.
Project Management: Utilize the company's ERP system for cost and value information collation and cost reconciliation statements.
Procurement: Collect and document procurement information, understand the required steps and documentation.
Commercial Management: Manage customer and stakeholder relationships, measure works, and agree with subcontractors.
Development Recruitment and Retention: Maintain a personal development plan, support the development of others, and work towards professional membership.
Who we're looking for
Essential Qualifications:
BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying or equivalent experience.
Desirable Qualities/Experience:
Excellent communication skills.
Strong teamwork abilities.
Achievement-focused mindset.
Previous commercial work experience.
Industry knowledge in energy, nuclear, or large-scale complex structure builds.
Balfour Beatty Behaviours:
Energy: Create pace and momentum in the right direction.
Edge: Have the courage to make tough decisions.
Excite: Engage and inspire the team to tackle seemingly impossible challenges.
Execute: Ensure the job is done well and efficiently.
Empowerment: Provide direction and support without micromanaging.
Empathise: Listen, understand, and adjust.
At Balfour Beatty, we are committed to creating an environment where you can thrive. We offer opportunities for continuous development, competitive salaries, and benefits, and the chance to work on high-profile projects that shape the infrastructure landscape.
Join us and be part of a team that makes a difference in building a better future.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
About us
From Dunfermline’s tramways in 1909 to highland hospitals today, Balfour Beatty has been trusted for over a century to deliver the complex and critical infrastructure and iconic buildings Scotland relies on.
We have the people, knowledge and experience to safely deliver projects right first time, maximising value for money and ensuring a positive social impact and inclusive economic growth for local communities.
Our award-winning sustainable projects, including active travel, Passivhaus and retrofit, demonstrate our commitment to supporting Scotland’s transition towards net zero in the built environment.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit
We are a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit:
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at
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