Senior Quantity Surveyor

Join Scottish Water Horizons

Together we are Trusted to Serve Scotland.

How's this for job satisfaction: At Scottish Water Horizons (SWH), we harness Scottish Water (SW) expertise and assets to generate income. All profits are reinvested by Scottish Water Horizons for the benefit of our customers and communities. Sound good?

It's an exciting time to be joining our team as we enter a new phase of growth. We have bold ambitions. We are ramping up the pace and scale of our projects and we're working with some of the brightest people in the industry.

We're looking for someone who is up for the challenge. Someone who can use their commercial experience and financial acumen to support critical project delivery. Someone who enjoys working in a fast-paced and driven environment. Someone who is passionate about making a difference.

SWH are a part of Scottish Water and play a key role in helping housing developers, and commercial property developers ensure that water and wastewater infrastructure has the capability to meet Scottish Water's requirements.

We are a commercially sustainable, stand-alone business leading the way in encouraging growth, establishing renewable technologies and transforming utilities across the Scottish Water landscape. Our varied business engagements include developer projects, development centres, low carbon energy projects, low carbon heat projects, and waste management to name but a few.

What You'll Do

You'll be the financial backbone, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting and forecasting. Your analytical prowess will shine as you produce crucial commercial and contractual information, ensuring strict compliance with programme constraints.

In this role, you'll be a key player in managing and mitigating risks, providing unwavering support to both Commercial and Project Management Teams. Your commitment extends to implementing strategic commercial procedures and policies, fostering strong relationships with project delivery teams, internal partners, and the supply chain.

With an eye for detail, you'll meticulously prepare contract documents, ensuring they align with SW and SWH procedures before project commencement. Change is constant, and you'll champion a robust change control process, ensuring value recovery from client contracts and maintaining a keen awareness of the SW Plan, Prepare, and Deliver process.

As a numerate professional with excellent communication skills, you'll administer commercial and contractual aspects, including change control, monthly applications, and accruals. Your high level of computer literacy, motivation, and organizational skills will be put to the test, with proficiency in Microsoft applications and the ability to adapt to bespoke costing/reporting systems.

Beyond the numbers, your role involves reviewing and challenging project tender documents, identifying risks with precision. You'll seamlessly navigate both SWH and SW's business processes, contributing to the development of your team members along the way.

What You'll Need

As the ideal candidate for this role, you'll bring a wealth of experience in project management, particularly with standard construction contract forms like NEC4, showcasing your adept administration skills in handling these contracts. Your background as a Quantity Surveyor or in a more senior role within construction or infrastructure, whether in private practice or contracting, will provide a solid foundation for success.

Your proficiency in numeracy and information management will be a standout trait, complemented by effective communication skills that are essential for this dynamic position. Holding a relevant qualification in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, or Project Management, along with an RICS/CICES qualification (or working towards one), will demonstrate your commitment to professional growth.

Whether working independently or collaboratively, you'll excel, showcasing strong commercial and contracting awareness gained from your valuable experience on both contractor and client-side projects. Your ability to manage time effectively will align seamlessly with your business and customer-focused awareness, ensuring successful project outcomes.

Your awareness of organizational aims and objectives will set you apart, as you actively communicate and instil this understanding within the team. Your IT literacy, especially in Microsoft programs and various management/costing/reporting systems, will add a tech-savvy edge to your skill set.

Character is important to us. Across the whole of Scottish Water, we look for people who are Bold, Responsible, Inspiring and Caring. (And you can expect these characteristics to make an appearance in your interview with us).

Looking Out For You

As part of our SWH team, you will enjoy the benefits of working within Scottish Water, where we pride ourselves on being a great place to work.

While the work we do is important, we know it's not the only thing that matters. That's why we make sure you have everything you need to find a good work-life balance.

You'll get plenty of time to recharge with 38 days of holiday every year (including public holidays). And you can even buy five more if you need a little extra time. You can also take paid time off to volunteer in your community.

When it comes to major life events we have family-friendly policies around adoption, maternity, and parental leave. And for the everyday? We embrace flexible working.

For your future, there's our pension (the 'know-what-you'll-get-when-you're-retired' kind), as well as life assurance.

As for some nice extras? You can expect an annual company bonus. Not to mention access to SW Splash – handy rewards that can save you money on holidays, bills, and shopping.

The Not-So-Small Print

This role will be located at our main Scottish Water Horizons head office at Scottish Water The Bridge in Stepps. It will involve a mixture of home, in the office / other SW offices and on site working.

This role will be a Grade 7. If you're new to Scottish Water, this means the salary range for this role is £45,699 - £51,184, depending on skills and experience and up to £56,669 for exceptional candidates for the role grade.

If you're interested in this role – or know someone else who might be – we'll be accepting applications until midnight on 11th September 2026.

We operate Balanced Hybrid working at Scottish Water and we encourage people to work half their time in a Scottish Water location.

Job offers at Scottish Water are conditional, and will be confirmed on completion of our pre-employment screening, e.g. referencing, criminal record checks, license checks, etc. Screening is conducted on our behalf by a third party, and must be completed before your start date. Don't worry - we'll only start these checks once you've accepted an offer.

A few final things worth knowing…

Research shows that some people avoid applying for jobs unless they can meet every single criteria. If you're interested in this job, but don't tick all the boxes, apply anyway! We hardly ever hire people who can do every part of a job from Day One. Everyone has a learning curve. So don't rule yourself out!

Let us know if there are any changes we can make to our recruitment process to help you perform at your best. Lots of our people have disabilities or neurodiverse conditions (including some of our recruiters!). We're also aware that some people might be experiencing temporary challenges because of life events, like menopause. We're very used to making adjustments, so please don't be afraid to ask.

As part of our commitment to developing a flourishing Scotland, it's important that all our employees are Scottish taxpayers. If you join us, your home address will need to be in Scotland. If you don't already live here, you'll need to commit to moving here within your first three months.

Candidates should be aware that a valid UK driving licence is required for driving on Scottish Water business and claiming business mileage expenses.

Please note, Scottish Water takes the safety, health and wellbeing of our employees, colleagues and customers very seriously and as such you may be subject to Drug & Alcohol testing in line with our policy.

Finally (finally!), candidates who haven't submitted an application in the last 12 months will have their records removed from our recruitment database. You won't need to do anything. Your data will be automatically deleted.

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