Freelance Senior Quantity Surveyor

The business This is a contractor that consistently features among the most active in the UK market -a business with a strong civils and infrastructure pedigree, a healthy forward order book, and a reputation for delivering complex, high-value schemes. They're well-regarded in the industry, retain good people, and have a pipeline that gives freelancers a genuine route to extended and repeat engagements. The role You'll be taking commercial ownership of a sizeable civils package - primarily earthworks with associated drainage and surfacing works. It's a standalone, site-based position reporting into a visiting Managing QS, so you'll need to be comfortable managing the day-to-day commercial output independently. What's involved * Full commercial management of the civils package from current stage through to completion * Subcontractor procurement, management, and account finalisation * CVIs, early warnings, and compensation events under NEC * Cost reporting and forecasting * Keeping the Managing QS fully sighted without needing to be chased What they're looking for * A civils QS background - earthworks, drainage, or highways experience preferred * Solid NEC contract experience (NEC3 or NEC4) * Someone who can operate autonomously on site without day-to-day oversight * Available in the near term and able to commit through to December, with a strong possibility of extension beyond that The detail * Outside IR35 * Based on site * Contract to December, with extension likely subject to both parties