Job Title:                     Quantity Surveyor

Location:                     Faslane, Helensburgh

Compensation:            £42,000 - £48,000 based on experience.

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent, 4 day working week.

Role ID:                       SF65453

At Babcock 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 Faslane site.

The role

As a Quantity Surveyor, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will support the Senior Quantity Surveyor in delivery of task objectives, building the facility of a dedicated QS team within Naval Base Projects Division.

Day-to-day, you will develop contractual standards and processes within the team in line with business needs on a whole life contractual and costing basis. Responsibilities include:

• Constantly challenging tendering and procedure strategy to maximise and improve business performance.
• Controlling and measuring cost and quality performance with Project Officers to ensure service levels are in line with business objectives.
• Developing and providing estimates for cost and feasibility studies.
• Ensuring that appropriate use is made of the company's IT capabilities to maximise efficiency.
• Implementing continuous improvement and best practice and contribute to business initiatives in accordance with the Operational, Technical and Health, Safety and Environmental standards.
• Measuring, valuing, negotiating and agreeing valuations and final accounts to the maximum benefit of the company. Investigating and resolving contractual issues and disputes.

This role is 4 days per week, you will work 36 hours with hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Quantity Surveyor

• You must have experience as a Quantity Surveyor.

Qualifications for the Quantity Surveyor

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. 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 Babcock 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.

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal. 

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.

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Closing date: 13/09/2025