Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where will you be working?
At M Group Energy, we’re enabling the energy essential to support our lives.
We provide an end-to-end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy, EV, metering and home decarbonisation.
This role will be within our Energy Infrastructure team. We’re seeking a Managing QS to join our Commercial Management team, where you’ll drive process, performance, and commercial excellence across our varied portfolio.
We're looking for an experienced surveyor with a passion for mentoring others, delivering robust commercial management, and supporting operational teams to maximise value and minimise risk. You’ll be confident navigating complex contracts, driving best practice, and building lasting partnerships with our supply chain.
Want to come and be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
You'll be leading and developing a team of Quantity Surveyors and Commercial Administrators, supporting their performance, growth, and compliance with training requirements.
Proactively managing pre-contract activities, including briefing delivery teams on contract terms, planning commercial resources, and supporting supplier engagement and tendering processes.
Overseeing valuation and change management, ensuring accurate applications for payment, contract administration, monitoring disputes, and guiding operational teams on commercial obligations.
Managing supply chain relationships and cost controls, validating project financials, administering subcontract agreements, and supporting Procurement initiatives.
Maintaining diligent records and audit trails, tracking payments, contract notices, meeting outcomes, and managing commercial risks and opportunities.
Driving contract performance, producing and presenting robust cost and value reports, risk registers, and forecasts, and providing advice to senior staff to support business decisions.
Please note, this is a job advert and does not cover all responsibilities of the role. For a full job description, please contact the team.
What you’ll bring
- Minimum 5 years’ experience working within the Infrastructure or Construction industry in a similar role
- Advance qualification in Quantity Surveying (BSC or equivalent) is required
- RICS or CICES beneficial - MGroup are committed to supporting the development of our people and can offer support to gain chartership if you do not already have the accreditation
- Previous experience as a line manager or functional manager of junior QSs or administrators advantageous but not essential
- Experience on a diverse range of contract and project types including NEC3 and 4 contract suites
- Experience of FIDIC, JCT or similar bespoke contracts also beneficial
What’s in it for you?
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;
- Matched or contributory pension scheme
- Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Employee assistance programme
- My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
- Reward and recognition scheme
In addition, this role offers;
- Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
- My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
- Private health care and health care cash plan for you and your family
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!
About us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
- We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
- We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
- We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.
It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.