Job Description
Job Title: Quantity Surveyor
Location: South London, UK
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Get ready to support the commercial delivery of EPC projects, with a strong focus on NEC contract and subcontract administration as Quantity Surveyor.
Job Overview:
The successful candidate will have a solid background in NEC contracts (NEC4 preferred) and experience managing both upstream and downstream commercial arrangements within an EPC environment.
What will you do?
Key Responsibilities
Commercial & NEC Contract Management
- Lead the commercial and contractual management of EPC projects under NEC contract forms, ensuring compliance with contract conditions and commercial best practice.
- Administer NEC contracts, including early warning processes, compensation events, change control, and risk reduction meetings.
- Manage upstream and downstream contractual obligations, ensuring alignment between head contracts and subcontracts.
Subcontract Administration
- Prepare, administer, and manage subcontract agreements, ensuring robust commercial control throughout the project lifecycle.
- Assess subcontractor payment applications, variations, and compensation events in line with contract requirements.
- Monitor subcontract performance against commercial KPIs, budgets, and programme milestones.
Cost Management & Forecasting
- Provide accurate cost control, reporting, and forecasting from project award through to final account.
- Track costs against approved budgets and maintain reliable cost and cashflow forecasts.
- Support the preparation of commercial reports, cost analyses, and financial summaries for internal and external stakeholders.
Tendering & Procurement Support
- Support tendering activities, including cost estimates, risk and contingency allowances, and commercial input into bid submissions.
- Assist with subcontract procurement, tender evaluations, contract negotiations, and supplier cost assessments.
Contract Administration & Change Control
- Prepare and manage all contractual documentation, including valuations, payment certificates, contractual notices, and correspondence.
- Evaluate and manage variations, compensation events, and change control processes.
- Support dispute avoidance strategies and contribute to issue resolution where required.
Risk & Compliance
- Participate in contract risk reviews and ensure risks are identified, assessed, and managed in line with NEC principles.
- Ensure commercial governance and assurance across all contractual arrangements.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Management
- Work closely with Project Managers, Planners, Engineers, Procurement, Legal, Finance teams, and Contractors to achieve project objectives.
- Build and maintain strong professional relationships with clients and supply chain partners.
- Provide guidance and mentoring to junior commercial team members where appropriate.
Preferred Qualifications
- Degree in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, Construction Law, or a related discipline.
- Professional accreditation (MRICS, CIOB, or equivalent) is desirable.
Experience & Skills
- Good experience in a Quantity Surveying or commercial role.
- Strong experience working with NEC contracts, ideally NEC4 (Options A, C, and/or E).
- Proven background in commercial and subcontract administration within EPC or major infrastructure projects.
- Sound knowledge of cost management, forecasting, valuations, and payment processes.
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to engage confidently with stakeholders at all levels.
- Strong analytical and problem‑solving capability, with a proactive and structured approach.
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About Linxon
Shaping energy solutions to empower sustainable connectivity.
Linxon’s vision is to deliver the best market offering for turnkey substation projects through world-class power technologies and delivering the highest level of competence in managing infrastructure projects.
As a leading engineering company, we help our customers with turnkey substation solutions in the field of power transmission, renewable energy, and transportation.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to be part of a new company as it evolves and help shape it for the future. If you like new challenges, have an entrepreneurial spirit, and are interested in working with other motivated professionals with expertise in the Substations EPC business, then this is the new opportunity for you.
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Job Type
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