Managing Quantity Surveyor (PUMA)

Bilfinger is a leading international industrial services provider, driving efficiency and sustainability for the process industry. With about 31,000 employees and over €5.4 billion in revenue in 2025, we offer solutions in consulting, engineering, manufacturing, maintenance, turnarounds, and digital applications across key sectors like energy, chemicals, pharma, and oil & gas.

Bilfinger UK stands out as a premier provider of engineering and maintenance services, with a strong commitment to sustainability. For over 50 years, Bilfinger UK has delivered advanced solutions supporting industries, infrastructure, and communities across the United Kingdom. As part of the globally respected Bilfinger Group, we offer both onshore and offshore services across energy, utilities, pharmaceuticals, and petrochemicals sectors.

About the role

Based full-time onsite at Hull, the Managing Quantity Surveyor will take day-to-day commercial leadership and financial control of the PUMA K30 Tie-In works. The role ensures robust administration of the NEC4 Option B contract and effective management of project cost, value, measurement, change, and cash. You will work closely with the Head of Commercial and Change Manager to link physical progress, Option B measurement, Compensation Events, subcontract expenditure, actual cost, and forecast project performance.

Responsibilities

• Take day-to-day responsibility for commercial management of the K30 Tie-In works.
• Maintain a detailed understanding of the Scope, Prices, Price List/Bill of Quantities, contractual obligations, and commercial assumptions underpinning the project.
• Provide timely commercial advice to the Project Manager and delivery team, ensuring commercial considerations are incorporated into operational decision-making.
• Escalate material commercial risks, opportunities, and contractual issues to the Head of Commercial at the earliest opportunity.
• Lead the measurement and valuation of completed works in accordance with the NEC Option B contract and applicable method of measurement.
• Ensure quantities claimed are supported by appropriate drawings, records, surveys, calculations, and evidence of completed work.
• Establish and maintain robust measurement records capable of supporting the project’s entitlement through client review, audit, and final account.
• Undertake regular reconciliation between tender/contract quantities, current measured quantities, completed quantities, quantities included within applications, forecast final quantities, and changes arising from implemented Compensation Events.
• Identify significant quantity growth or reduction early and assess the resulting commercial and forecast implications.
• Maintain a clear distinction between remeasurement under Option B and changes to the Scope giving rise to Compensation Events.
• Prepare and manage accurate and timely applications for payment for the K30 Tie-In, ensuring applications maximize legitimate contractual recovery and are fully supported by measurement and evidence.
• Reconcile applications against certified amounts and promptly identify and challenge omissions, reductions, or differences in assessment.
• Maintain clear visibility of work completed, value applied, value certified, cash received, outstanding value, accrued income/WIP, and forecast future applications.
• Work proactively to maintain positive cash performance and minimize unnecessary working-capital exposure.
• Own the detailed commercial forecast for the K30 Tie-In and ensure it provides an accurate assessment of the anticipated final commercial outcome.
• Maintain robust cost-to-complete and estimate-at-completion assessments, supported by current project information.
• Reconcile actual and committed cost against budget, earned value, measured progress, and forecast.
• Identify emerging cost trends, overruns, and opportunities early and agree on appropriate mitigation actions with the project team.
• Ensure commercial reporting accurately reflects known liabilities and does not defer recognition of foreseeable cost or risk.
• Provide clear explanations for movements between reporting periods.
• Work closely with the Change Manager to identify events that may have contractual or commercial consequences.
• Ensure the commercial team provides timely and accurate measurement, quantities, cost information, subcontractor quotations, records, valuation evidence, and forecast impacts to support Compensation Event submissions.
• Ensure implemented Compensation Events are correctly incorporated into the Prices, measurement records, applications, and project forecast.
• Identify where physical works have changed from the contractual Scope and ensure these matters are immediately referred into the formal change process.
• Lead the commercial management of subcontractors and suppliers allocated to the K30 Tie-In, ensuring subcontract packages are appropriately scoped, commercially controlled, and administered in accordance with their contractual terms.
• Manage subcontract applications, measurement and valuation, variations/change, liabilities and accruals, final accounts, and commercial correspondence.
• Ensure subcontractor change is appropriately assessed before acceptance and that corresponding entitlement under the main contract is considered wherever applicable.
• Prevent downstream commercial commitments being made without appropriate authority or understanding of the upstream recovery position.
• Establish robust contemporaneous records supporting measurement, change, and commercial entitlement, including measurement sheets, marked-up drawings, site records, photographs, labour and plant records, delivery records, instructions, technical queries, programme information, and subcontractor records.
• Ensure commercial positions are based upon demonstrable project evidence rather than retrospective reconstruction.
• Support procurement activities and commercial evaluation of subcontract and supply packages, ensuring commitments are made within appropriate budgets and delegated authorities.
• Review purchase orders, subcontract values, and committed expenditure against the project forecast.
• Identify potential gaps between Scope, procurement packages, and project budget before commitments are placed.
• Maintain detailed visibility of commercial risks and opportunities affecting the K30 Tie-In, quantifying potential financial exposure and ensuring appropriate values are reflected within the project forecast and risk process.
• Develop mitigation and recovery strategies with the Head of Commercial, Project Manager, and Change Manager.
• Actively identify opportunities for improved recovery, cost avoidance, and commercial optimisation.
• Provide accurate and concise commercial reporting to the Head of Commercial and project leadership, including contract value and movement, measurement position, applications and certification, actual and committed cost, forecast cost to complete, estimate at completion, change position, subcontract liabilities, cash and WIP, risk and opportunity, and forecast margin.
• Ensure reported figures can be reconciled back to underlying project records and financial systems.
• Provide leadership and direction to Quantity Surveyors and other commercial resources assigned to the K30 Tie-In, allocating responsibilities clearly and ensuring appropriate commercial coverage across the works.
• Review the quality of commercial outputs and develop the capability of less experienced team members.
• Promote a commercially aware culture across the wider project team and ensure Engineering and Construction understand their role in protecting commercial entitlement.
• Maintain the project commercial records on a final-account-ready basis throughout delivery rather than leaving reconciliation until project completion.
• Progress measurement, Compensation Events, and subcontract accounts towards agreement as the project develops.
• Ensure outstanding commercial matters are clearly identified, valued, and supported.
• Drive timely agreement of final quantities and commercial close-out of the K30 Tie-In.

Key Deliverables

• Accurate and auditable measurement of K30 Tie-In works in accordance with the Option B contract.
• Monthly reconciliation of contract, measured, applied, certified, and forecast final quantities.
• Timely and accurate applications for payment supported by appropriate measurement evidence.
• Clear reconciliation between physical progress, measurement, revenue, and project cost.
• A current and robust cost-to-complete/EAC forecast, with movements explained each reporting period.
• Early identification and escalation of quantity growth, cost pressure, Scope change, and emerging commercial exposure.
• Clear separation between Option B remeasurement and Compensation Event entitlement.
• All implemented Compensation Events correctly reflected within measurement, Prices, applications, and forecast.
• Effective commercial management of subcontractors with accurate liabilities and no unmanaged commitments.
• Appropriate contemporaneous records maintained to substantiate measurement, change, and commercial entitlement.
• Regular reconciliation of actual, committed, and forecast cost.
• Active management of cash, certification, and outstanding client value.
• Commercial risks and opportunities quantified and appropriately reflected within project reporting.
• Progressive agreement of quantities and subcontract accounts to prevent a significant unresolved final-account position.
• Accurate, transparent, and timely commercial reporting to the Head of Commercial and project leadership.

Requirements

• Significant Quantity Surveying/commercial management experience within major engineering, construction, energy, or infrastructure projects.
• Strong practical experience of NEC3 and/or NEC4 contracts, preferably including Option B.
• Demonstrable experience of measurement and valuation on complex construction projects.
• Strong understanding of Compensation Events and the interaction between change, measurement, programme, and cost.
• Experience managing subcontractor accounts from procurement through to final account.
• Strong cost-control, forecasting, and financial reporting capability.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, Scope documents, Bills of Quantities/Price Lists, and commercial schedules.
• Experience with contract-management systems such as Sypro and project financial systems.
• Degree or equivalent qualification in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, or a related discipline.
• RICS membership or progress towards professional qualification is desirable.

Skills

• Commercially astute and financially disciplined.
• Highly competent in measurement and valuation.
• Confident and proactive in managing commercial risks and opportunities.
• Strong leadership and team development skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.