Pre-Contract Quantity Surveyor

Basingstoke, Hampshire
SNG (Sovereign Network Group)

Are you a qualified QS who is passionate about delivering exceptional value for money, reducing risk in construction projects, and ensuring high-quality outcomes for customers? We’re looking for a proactive and commercially minded professional to join our Major Works Projects team and play a key role in shaping cost-effective, compliant, and customer-focused building solutions.

About the Role

In this vital position, you will act as a trusted client-side specialist, ensuring our construction, repairs, and maintenance projects meet statutory requirements, achieve high-quality standards, and deliver the best possible value.

You will also help maintain high-quality data within our asset management system (Keystone), ensuring transparency, accuracy, and strong compliance across your portfolio.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Deliver VfM appraisals and cost plans to support a £10m annual projects programme.
• Act as the client, leading pre-contract cost estimates, feasibility studies, and statutory compliance checks.
• Prepare elemental cost plans, BOQs, schedules of work, and tender documentation.
• Manage procurement activities in partnership with internal teams and specialist consultants.
• Analyse project risks, assess tender submissions, and support contract negotiation.
• Provide commercial advice relating to contract terms, claims, and disputes.
• Monitor and maintain accurate asset data in Keystone, ensuring compliance and transparency.
• Support Project Managers to ensure live projects meet agreed scope, quality, and value objectives.
• Manage stakeholder relationships and prepare detailed progress reports.
• Be a visible, supportive, and knowledgeable presence within the team, championing best practice and professional standards.

About You

Essential:

• Qualified Quantity Surveyor (RICS/CIOB).
• Strong commercial awareness and analytical ability.
• Experience in construction.
• Knowledge of current building safety, compliance, and health & safety regulations.
• Working knowledge of construction contracts and procurement processes.
• Ability to assess data quality, identify issues, and manage impacts.

Desirable:

• Understanding of data quality monitoring methods (e.g., data reconciliations).
• Knowledge of data breaches and relevant standards for prevention and response.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to shape high-impact projects that improve homes and communities.
• A supportive and collaborative team culture.
• Learning and development that grows your professional capability.
• A workplace that values trust, transparency, wellbeing, and safety.

If you’re commercially savvy, detail-driven, and ready to champion value for money in major construction projects, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today and help us deliver safe, high-quality homes for our customers.