Quantity Surveyor

Job Title:                     Quantity Surveyor

Location:                     Warrington Cheshire + Hybrid Working Arrangement

Compensation:            Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF72754

Shape Value, Control Cost and Protect What Matters Most in Nuclear Defence

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 Quantity Surveyor, at our Warrington site.

The role

As a Quantity Surveyor, you’ll provide professional quantity surveying and commercial support across projects within our Nuclear Defence Support programme. Working closely with project managers, engineers, suppliers and clients, you’ll support robust governance, effective cost control and sound commercial decision‑making throughout the project lifecycle.

This is an exciting opportunity to build your experience in a highly regulated, technically complex environment where accuracy, integrity and collaboration matter. You’ll gain exposure to large‑scale engineering and construction programmes, strengthen your NEC contract expertise and develop your career within one of the UK’s most strategically important sectors.

• Providing commercial and quantity surveying support across bids, contracts and live projects
• Managing change, compensation events, valuations and contractual notices
• Supporting project managers with cost control, forecasting and commercial reporting
• Ensuring contract compliance and effective flow‑down of terms to the supply chain
• Developing strong relationships with internal stakeholders, clients and subcontractors

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days in the office/onsite.

Essential experience of the Quantity Surveyor:

• Relevant experience working in a Quantity Surveying or commercial role
• Good understanding of commercial administration within engineering or construction environments
• Experience supporting project commercial strategy on complex contracts
• Familiarity with NEC3 or NEC4 contracts is advantageous
• Proven ability to manage relationships and deliver against agreed objectives

Qualifications for the Quantity Surveyor:

• Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying, Building Services Quantity Surveying or equivalent experience
• Working toward or membership of a relevant professional body would be advantageous

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘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

We’re Cavendish Nuclear — a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together, we’re shaping a future that lasts — not only through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

Join us and discover how far we can go, 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:   15/05/2026

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