(Senior) Quantity Surveyor / (Senior) Cost Consultant

Arcadis
London +1 more
Career-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Aimed at mid-to-senior level professionals in cost management and transportation infrastructure who can collaborate across multidisciplinary teams and contribute to complex projects.

Best fit for

  • Candidates who can contribute to sustainable solutions and client value through cost and commercial insight
    — “deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet”
  • Individuals who can manage cost estimates and budgets while engaging effectively with clients and stakeholders
    — “provide clear and relevant cost and commercial information to clients and project stakeholders”

Things to consider

  • May require obtaining and maintaining BPSS clearance, which could affect eligibility
    — “may be required to obtain and maintain Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in managing budgets and forecasts for transportation projects
    — “develop and manage cost estimates, cost plans, budgets, forecasts and financial reporting”
  • Emphasize your ability to provide actionable commercial insight to stakeholders
    — “ability to analyse information and contribute practical commercial insight”
  • Showcase your collaboration with multidisciplinary teams on complex infrastructure projects
    — “work collaboratively with project managers, engineers, designers, contractors and clients”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • managing cost estimates and budgets
  • supporting procurement and contract administration
Typical background
quantity surveyingcost management

Skills & requirements

Required

Quantity SurveyingCost ManagementCommercial Management

Preferred

NEC ContractsTransportation Infrastructure

Stack & domain

Quantity SurveyingCost ManagementCommercial ManagementProject ControlsNEC ContractsTransportationInfrastructureBuilt EnvironmentCommunicationTeamworkProblem-solvingLeadershipConstruction

About the role

Original posting from Arcadis

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role Description 

Create a Legacy Through the Infrastructure That Keeps the World Moving

Behind every successful transportation programme is a team of professionals who help turn ambition into reality. At Arcadis, our Cost Consultants, Quantity Surveyors and Commercial professionals play a vital role in delivering major transportation infrastructure, helping clients make informed decisions and supporting the successful delivery of complex projects and programmes.

Whether you are starting your career, developing your expertise or bringing significant industry experience, you'll have opportunities to contribute to challenging transportation projects that improve connectivity and create lasting benefits for communities. You'll work alongside multidisciplinary teams where your commercial and cost expertise will help shape the infrastructure of the future.

What's Your Next Major Project?

Complex Problems. Meaningful Impact. Career-Defining Projects. Create a Legacy with Arcadis.

Role Accountabilities

Provide quantity surveying, cost management and commercial support across major Transportation Infrastructure projects.

Develop and manage cost estimates, cost plans, budgets, forecasts and financial reporting.

Support change control, risk management, cost assurance and commercial decision-making.

Work collaboratively with project managers, engineers, designers, contractors and clients.

Support procurement, contract administration and commercial governance activities.

Monitor project performance and identify opportunities to improve value and delivery outcomes.

Provide clear and relevant cost and commercial information to clients and project stakeholders.

Contribute to the management of project risks, opportunities and commercial challenges.

Support the successful delivery of projects throughout the project lifecycle.

Share knowledge and contribute to continuous improvement across project teams.

Qualifications & Experience

We welcome applications from professionals at all stages of their careers, including Assistant Quantity Surveyors, Quantity Surveyors, Cost Consultants, Senior Cost Consultants, Commercial Managers and Cost Management Leaders.

Experience or relevant academic background in quantity surveying, cost management, commercial management or a related discipline.

Experience within transportation, infrastructure or the wider built environment is welcomed.

Understanding of cost planning, estimating, forecasting, commercial management or project controls.

Experience with NEC contracts or other commonly used construction contracts is beneficial.

Ability to analyse information and contribute practical commercial insight.

Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Ability to collaborate effectively within multidisciplinary teams.

Professional accreditation, chartership or progress towards professional recognition is welcomed but not essential for all career levels.

An interest in contributing to complex infrastructure that creates long-term value for clients and communities.

Due to the nature of some projects and client requirements, successful candidates may be required to obtain and maintain Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance.

Create a Legacy

What's your next major project?

If you're looking to build your experience, broaden your portfolio or bring your existing expertise to some of the most interesting and challenging Transportation Infrastructure programmes, we'd like to hear from you.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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Source: Arcadis careers

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