Quantity Surveyor or Senior Quantity Surveyor

5 days ago

Barnsley, Barnsley, United Kingdom AmcoGiffen Full time £35,000 - £55,000 per year

Senior Quantity Surveyor / Quantity Surveyor
Sector:
Civil Engineering Environment Agency

Location:
Barnsley, South Yorkshire

Make an Impact in Sustainable Infrastructure
We're looking for a skilled and motivated
Quantity Surveyor
to join our engineering team delivering Environment Agency civil engineering projects across South Yorkshire. This role offers the opportunity to work on a diverse portfolio of schemes under the
Asset Operation, Maintenance, Response (AOMR) Framework
, contributing to flood resilience, environmental protection, and infrastructure renewal.

About AmcoGiffen
AmcoGiffen is a trusted delivery partner for maintenance frameworks, capital projects, and complex civil engineering across the UK. Our work spans:

  • Highways & Roads
  • Bridges (Under, Over & Footbridges)
  • Tunnels & Station Infrastructure
  • Flood Alleviation & Repairs
  • Earthworks & Embankments
  • Lineside Civils, Cabling, Trough Routes & Telecoms

We collaborate with Local Authorities, Network Rail, energy providers, and environmental organisations to deliver resilient infrastructure with sustainability at its core.

Your Role
As a
Quantity Surveyor or Senior Quantity Surveyor
, you'll play a key role in the commercial success of our Environment Agency projects. You'll support Commercial Managers and operational teams in managing multiple civil engineering schemes, ensuring financial performance, contractual compliance, and value delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Prepare and submit applications for payment and final accounts
  • Ensure timely receipt of payments aligned with contract terms
  • Support tendering and estimating processes
  • Produce weekly cost/value reports and monthly reconciliations
  • Manage subcontractor procurement and final accounts
  • Provide commercial support to site teams and procurement functions
  • Prepare documentation for variations, claims, and additional payments
  • Mentor and support trainee/apprentice Quantity Surveyors
  • Liaise with clients on all commercial matters

What You'll Bring

  • Degree qualification in Quantity Surveying or equivalent experience
  • Membership of RICS, ICES, or similar (or working towards)
  • Experience in civil engineering contracting (rail or water sector beneficial)
  • Strong commercial acumen and contract knowledge
  • Proficiency in MS Office and relevant commercial tools
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills

What We Offer

  • Competitive annual salary negotiable dependant on experience
  • Company Car or Car Allowance
  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (increasing with service)
  • Company contributory Pension scheme
  • Life Insurance
  • Westfield Health Cash Plan & Westfield Rewards
  • Support and employee infrastructure embedded in the business as a platform for personal and professional development creating pathways for unrivalled career development and progression opportunities internally.
  • Consistent learning opportunities
  • Internal development programmes dedicated to supporting the development of our colleagues and future business leaders including Purposeful Leadership, Women in leadership and much more.
  • A safe place to work
  • Employee forum's that provide a platform for having your voice heard

If you're ready to shape the future of sustainable infrastructure and grow your career in a values-driven organisation, we'd love to hear from you.

The Company
Why AmcoGiffen?
You will be joining a reputable and firmly established, engineering contractor operating nationally in rail, civils and engineering markets. AmcoGiffen are renowned in the market as a specialist civil, building, mechanical and electrical renewals and maintenance business with ongoing and successful projects and frameworks across the country, you will become part of our expert outfit.

AmcoGiffen has a wealth of experience working on sensitive, live assets in highly regulated environments, we deliver exceptional peace of mind for our customers, creating and maintaining assets across a growing range of high-quality public and private sectors. These include rail, power generation, electricity distribution, flood defence, aviation, waterways and much more.

Diversity & Inclusion at AmcoGiffen
We value collective expertise, but also the spark that one person can bring. As one of us, you can be you, because your individuality is an asset to our business and the communities in which we work and represent.

We are working hard as part of the civil engineering and construction industry, to improve diversity & inclusion. Our Diversity and inclusion journey at AmcoGiffen, is constantly evolving and is designed to break down barriers and promote the principles of a diverse workforce through multiple channels. This includes delivering training, raising awareness, regular forums and sharing our engagement calendar of activities and events to encourage participation at all levels throughout our organisation.

Diversity & Inclusion is embodied throughout our SPIRIT core Business values and lies at the heart of our culture of Safety, Professionalism, Innovation, Respect, Integrity and Teamwork.

AmcoGiffen is an Equal Opportunities Employer, offering challenging, worthwhile careers to everyone and is pro-actively committed to improving our understanding year on year to foster a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees as well as for the customers and communities in which we serve and operate within. It doesn't matter to us what your age, disability, employment status, gender, health, marital status, sexual preference, membership or non-membership of a trade union, nationality, race, religion or social class are, or indeed any other personal characteristics not directly related to the relevant job. Anyone who meets the requirements of the job is eligible for employment with AmcoGiffen.

Health & Wellbeing
Operating from a people first perspective we support safety and wellbeing in the workplace as a priority. We have large number of colleagues that are trained and qualified mental health first aiders to support and listen where appropriate. We enrol all of the AmcoGiffen family onto an employee assistance programme which provides 24 hour, 7 days a week counselling and advice services.

Is AmcoGiffen your next career challenge? If so, apply now
For more information or to arrange a private and confidential discussion about AmcoGiffen career opportunities, please contact our Recruitment Team:


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