Expression of Interest - Quantity Surveyor

Location/s: Whitehaven, Warrington UK
Recruiter contact: Aoife Cullen

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

About the business unit

Mott MacDonald’s Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers both project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across the built environment, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health and care sectors.

We deliver tailored solutions that directly address our clients’ key challenges, combining our world-class project expertise with strong programme delivery capabilities and advisory services. APD delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity up to £20bn, through the technical disciplines of programme management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, infrastructure finance, management consulting, digital consulting and education, health and care management.

Energy – Nuclear Decommissioning

Mott MacDonald is a trusted partner in the global energy sector, with deep expertise across nuclear, renewables, hydro, thermal, and electricity and gas. A key area of focus is nuclear decommissioning, where we support clients in safely managing the end-of-life phase of nuclear facilities, ensuring environmental protection, regulatory compliance, and value optimisation.

Our teams work with major public and private sector organisations including nuclear site operators, regulatory bodies, and government agencies. We provide support across the full lifecycle of decommissioning programmes—covering strategy development, cost and risk management, waste management, site remediation, and infrastructure transformation.

We are actively contributing to some of the UK’s most complex and long-term decommissioning programmes, helping to deliver safe, efficient, and sustainable outcomes while supporting the transition to a low-carbon future.

Overview of the role

Owing to the continued growth of our energy portfolio, particularly in nuclear decommissioning, we have a unique opportunity for Quantity Surveyors to join our fast-growing team in Whitehaven and Warrington.

This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in some of the most technically complex, highly regulated, and strategically important projects in the UK. You will play a key role in supporting nuclear decommissioning programmes, helping to manage costs, mitigate risks, and ensure effective commercial delivery across large-scale, multi-year projects.

We are looking to attract the finest talent to be part of this journey as we support key clients across a broad portfolio of nuclear decommissioning and wider energy programmes.

With extensive experience in the energy sector, our Advisory and Programme Delivery teams deliver projects ranging from nuclear decommissioning and site remediation to new energy infrastructure and low-carbon transition initiatives.

Candidate Specification

The Quantity Surveyor will support the successful delivery of client projects within the energy sector, with a strong focus on nuclear decommissioning.

The role focuses on effective cost management, NEC contract administration, and commercial leadership to ensure efficient, transparent delivery aligned with client objectives within a highly regulated environment.

The Quantity Surveyor will drive value, manage risk, build effective stakeholder relationships, and champion commercial best practice throughout the project lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and administer NEC4 contracts in accordance with project and governance requirements within nuclear decommissioning programmes
• Control and implement contract variations efficiently, ensuring timely and compliant agreement
• Maintain accurate cost control, monitoring, and forecasting across complex, long-term projects
• Continuously improve the quality and reliability of cost forecasts and budgets
• Work collaboratively with client, contractor, and multidisciplinary teams to achieve project objectives, KPIs, and value outcomes
• Support commercial and cost management activities in a highly regulated nuclear environment, ensuring compliance with industry standards and safety requirements

Experience required for the Quantity Surveyor position:

• Degree qualified (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline
• NEC ECC Accreditation and practical experience administering NEC4 ECC contracts
• Hold, or be working towards, membership of an appropriate professional body such as MRICS
• Experience working on technically complex infrastructure projects within highly regulated industries (e.g. nuclear, energy, utilities)
• Understanding or experience of nuclear decommissioning, waste management, or site remediation (desirable but not essential)
• Experience managing contract cashflow, governance, and change control
• Demonstrable experience administering contracts using CEMAR
• Proven experience in cost control and estimating
• Competent in Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, Teams, Access, and PowerPoint
• Practical, hands-on experience administering NEC4 ECC and/or PSC contracts

Desirable

• Demonstrable experience administering contracts using Thinkproject Contracts
• NEC4 Project Manager Accreditation
• Experience working within nuclear or other highly regulated environments

Please be advised that offers for this role are conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of Security Clearance

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

Agile working  

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion 

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Employee Ownership

• Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
• Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses.
• As your career grows, so does your stake, recognising your long-term impact and contribution.
• Your voice matters, with the opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels to help shape our future.
• For our senior roles you will have a direct pathway towards ownership from day one.

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

 Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

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