Pre-Contract Quantity Surveyor
- Salary:£50,000 to £62,000
- Location:Location Flexible, Newbury or Basingstoke
- Vacancy type:Permanent
- Closing Date:11 December 2025
Are you a qualified QS who is passionate about delivering exceptional value for money, reducing risk in construction projects, and ensuring high-quality outcomes for customers? We're looking for a proactive and commercially minded professional to join our Major Works Projects team and play a key role in shaping cost-effective, compliant, and customer-focused building solutions.
About the Role
In this vital position, you will act as a trusted client-side specialist, ensuring our construction, repairs, and maintenance projects meet statutory requirements, achieve high-quality standards, and deliver the best possible value.
You will also help maintain high-quality data within our asset management system (Keystone), ensuring transparency, accuracy, and strong compliance across your portfolio.
What You'll Be Doing
- Deliver VfM appraisals and cost plans to support a £10m annual projects programme.
- Act as the client, leading pre-contract cost estimates, feasibility studies, and statutory compliance checks.
- Prepare elemental cost plans, BOQs, schedules of work, and tender documentation.
- Manage procurement activities in partnership with internal teams and specialist consultants.
- Analyse project risks, assess tender submissions, and support contract negotiation.
- Provide commercial advice relating to contract terms, claims, and disputes.
- Monitor and maintain accurate asset data in Keystone, ensuring compliance and transparency.
- Support Project Managers to ensure live projects meet agreed scope, quality, and value objectives.
- Manage stakeholder relationships and prepare detailed progress reports.
- Be a visible, supportive, and knowledgeable presence within the team, championing best practice and professional standards.
About You
Essential:
- Qualified Quantity Surveyor (RICS/CIOB).
- Strong commercial awareness and analytical ability.
- Experience in construction.
- Knowledge of current building safety, compliance, and health & safety regulations.
- Working knowledge of construction contracts and procurement processes.
- Ability to assess data quality, identify issues, and manage impacts.
Desirable:
- Understanding of data quality monitoring methods (e.g., data reconciliations).
- Knowledge of data breaches and relevant standards for prevention and response.
What We Offer
- The opportunity to shape high-impact projects that improve homes and communities.
- A supportive and collaborative team culture.
- Learning and development that grows your professional capability.
- A workplace that values trust, transparency, wellbeing, and safety.
If you're commercially savvy, detail-driven, and ready to champion value for money in major construction projects, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today and help us deliver safe, high-quality homes for our customers.



