Senior Quantity Surveyor – Property Services

Location: Birmingham
Salary: £65,000–£75,000 + package

Join a major social housing planned maintenance contract with long-term security and genuine career progression.

Are you a Quantity Surveyor with experience in social housing, planned maintenance or property refurbishment?

This is an opportunity to join a major contractor’s established Property Services division, working on a substantial, long-term housing maintenance programme across Birmingham. With significant volumes of work, a contract running for an initial 10 years with potential to extend to 15 years, and a commercial team that is continuing to grow, this is an excellent opportunity to take on a challenging role with genuine long-term career prospects.

Job Description

As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you will play a key commercial role in delivering planned maintenance and refurbishment programmes across Birmingham, working alongside an established commercial team and managing significant volumes of work.

Key responsibilities include:

• Commercial management: Oversee the commercial delivery of high-volume planned maintenance programmes across Birmingham, ensuring costs, valuations, variations and financial reporting are accurately managed.
• Planned maintenance programmes: Manage commercial activity across kitchens, bathrooms, windows, doors, roofing, external works and wider component replacement schemes within social housing.
• Financial reporting and cost control: Monitor project expenditure, track work in progress, manage budgets and produce accurate commercial reports across multiple workstreams.
• Client and stakeholder management: Build effective relationships with the client, operational teams, subcontractors and internal stakeholders, supporting the successful delivery of the programme.
• Programme and package management: Coordinate multiple work packages, manage variations and identify commercial risks and opportunities, with exposure to larger refurbishment, high-rise and fire-safety-related projects where required.

Skills / Qualifications

To be successful in this Senior Quantity Surveyor / Project Surveyor position, you will ideally demonstrate:

• Property Services experience: A proven background in social housing, planned maintenance, housing refurbishment or a similar property maintenance environment.
• Planned works knowledge: Experience delivering or commercially managing programmes involving kitchens and bathrooms, roofing, windows, doors, component replacement or similar housing improvement works.
• Strong commercial capability: A solid understanding of cost control, valuations, variations, subcontractor management, financial reporting and commercial performance.
• Experience managing multiple workstreams: Confidence handling high volumes of work, detailed data and reporting requirements, while maintaining commercial control across several packages or programmes.
• The right level of experience: An established Project Surveyor / Senior Quantity Surveyor, or an experienced Quantity Surveyor who can demonstrate they are genuinely ready to step up into a project-level role.

This is an opportunity to join a leading national contractor with an established and growing Property Services division, offering a varied programme of planned maintenance works, a strong pipeline of projects and genuine opportunities for long-term career progression.

Offering £65,000–£75,000 for the right person, this is an excellent opportunity to take the next step in your Property Services career with a leading national contractor.

If you're interested in finding out more, apply today or contact James at Skilled Careers for a confidential discussion.

Jmaloney@skilledcareers.co.uk | 07711370553