Managing Quantity Surveyor

Job Title: Managing Quantity Surveyor

Location: Glasgow, Scotland + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF72491

Shape major infrastructure projects with Babcock

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Managing Quantity Surveyor at Cadder Yard, near Glasgow, Scotland, supporting the delivery and commercial success of high‑profile rail projects across the United Kingdom.

The role

As a Managing Quantity Surveyor within our Land – Rail business, you will take full commercial ownership of major contracts from award through to completion. You will protect project profitability, lead commercial governance, manage contractual risk, and build strong relationships with clients and supply chain partners. This is a role where your commercial expertise will shape project outcomes and provide lasting value to customers and communities.

Day-to-day, you will be:

• Leading the commercial management of contracts, ensuring compliance with all contractual requirements from award to final account.
• Driving profitability and cash performance through effective cost control, change management, negotiation and financial reporting.
• Managing commercial deliverables including subcontract procurement, cash collection, compensation events, variations and contractual notifications.
• Building and maintaining strong commercial relationships with clients and supply chain partners, resolving issues and identifying opportunities.
• Providing leadership, guidance and mentorship to commercial team members to ensure high‑quality delivery and development.

This is a full‑time, permanent opportunity working thirty‑five hours per week, Monday to Friday. The position is hybrid, requiring a minimum of three days each week at Cadder Yard, near Glasgow, Scotland.

Essential experience of the Managing Quantity Surveyor:

• Proven experience delivering contracts valued between five million and thirty million pounds.
• Strong communication, negotiation and stakeholder‑management skills.
• Experience leading and developing commercial staff.
• Demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional development.

Qualifications for the Managing Quantity Surveyor:

Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Quantity Surveying or an equivalent qualification.

Security Clearance

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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 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.

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see 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 [email protected] 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: 06/04/2026