Mott Macdonald
A global engineering, management, and development consultancy delivering innovative solutions.
Quantity Surveyor/ Commercial Manager
Quantity Surveyor delivering cost and commercial management for transportation projects
Job Highlights
About the Role
• Rail: support major rail infrastructure projects such as Crossrail, HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail. • Highways: work with National Highways on various projects across the UK. • Local Authority: assist local authorities on transportation projects covering rail, highways, sustainability and social value.
Key Responsibilities
- ▸rail projects
- ▸highway projects
- ▸local authority
- ▸infrastructure
- ▸sustainability
- ▸social value
What You Bring
• Required: Chartered QS (MRICS) or degree in Quantity Surveying (or equivalent) working towards chartered status. • Required: Proven experience delivering within a Cost Consultancy or Main Contractor environment. • Required: Experience with NEC contracts. • Preferred: Experience using CEMAR. • Preferred: Excellent report writing skills. • Preferred: Ability to prioritize and work under pressure. • Preferred: Strong relationship‑building with clients and colleagues. • Preferred: Excellent presentation and communication abilities. • Preferred: Effective time management. • Preferred: Customer‑focused mindset. • Preferred: Experience with electronic measurement systems.
Requirements
- ▸chartered qs
- ▸nec contracts
- ▸cemar
- ▸quantity surveying
- ▸cost consultancy
- ▸report writing
Benefits
The role offers the chance to work on some of the UK’s largest transportation projects alongside key clients and Mott MacDonald experts. Collaboration is centred on delivering high‑quality, sustainable solutions that generate social value and technical excellence. Mott MacDonald supports professional development, funding one professional institution subscription per year and providing learning opportunities toward chartership. The firm puts equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of its business and promotes flexible and agile working arrangements. Employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits package covering health and wellbeing (private medical insurance, health cash plan and wellbeing programmes), financial security (pension matching, life assurance and income protection), generous holiday entitlement, enhanced family and carers leave, and access to learning, development and employee networks. • Health & wellbeing: Private medical insurance, health cash plan, free menopause support via Peppy, comprehensive wellbeing programme, flexible salary‑linked health benefits for employee and family. • Financial wellbeing: Pension match 4.5‑7%, life assurance up to 4‑6× salary, income protection, flexible benefits (critical illness insurance, payroll saving, will writing), annual bonus schemes. • Lifestyle: 33‑35 days holiday (increasing to 35 after 5 years), ability to buy/sell leave, employee discounts and saving schemes. • Family & carers: 26 weeks paid maternity/adoption leave, 2 weeks paid paternity/partner leave, shared parental leave up to 24 weeks full pay, up to 5 additional caring days (2 paid).
Work Environment
Hybrid