Quantity Surveyor Groundworks – stuck in the same role you’ve been doing since Live Aid?

Quantity Surveyor – East Midlands

Permanent | Growing Groundworks Contractor | £Competitive + Car + Benefits

Still stuck in the same role you’ve been doing since Live Aid?

Same clients. Same chaos at month-end. Same promise of “big changes coming” that never quite turn up?

Yeah… we thought so.

Here’s the thing: not every groundworks outfit is treading water. Some are genuinely building something solid — expanding, winning good work, and keeping their heads while others are chasing every tender going. The kind that still believe in looking after their people because that’s how you keep good ones.

This is one of those firms.

A proper Midlands groundworks contractor — stable, growing, and sensible about it. They’ve built their name on delivering for major housebuilders and developers, and they’re now adding new sites across the region. More work means more opportunity, which means they need another Quantity Surveyor to join the team.

You’ll know the drill: managing costs, measuring works, sorting variations, handling subcontract accounts, keeping things commercially tight but fair. You’ll be out on site often enough to keep it real, not welded to a spreadsheet in a portacabin.

It’s not a revolving-door business. People stay. Because it’s run by grown-ups who’ve done the job — who understand that sometimes it’s mud, long hours, and awkward clients… but also pride when you drive past something you helped build.

If you’re tired of:

• Feeling like a number in a corporate machine

• Watching less capable people leapfrog you because they shout louder

• Wondering if the company you work for actually has a plan

…then maybe it’s time to shift gears.

You’ll get:

• A competitive salary and car or allowance

• Stability (real stability — not “we’ve got a strong pipeline” talk)

• Decent management and backup from site and commercial leads

• Clear routes to Senior QS and beyond as the business grows

Office base is Leicestershire and you’ll manage sites across the East Midlands.

They’re not reinventing the wheel — just doing the basics properly: look after clients, deliver good work, treat staff fairly, and plan ahead. Radical, eh?

It’s the kind of place where you can build a career, not just clock in. Somewhere you can bring ideas, get listened to, and actually see the reward for it.

So ask yourself — how long are you going to keep replaying the same tape?

If Marty McFly can go back and sort his future out, maybe it’s time you did too.

Interested?
Drop a quiet line to Civils Senior Talent. No drama, no sales pitch — just a straight chat about what’s next.

Don’t worry if you haven’t got an up to date CV it’s not important for now. Everyone who gets in touch will get a response.

Now the diversity bit…

Civils Senior Talent and our partner clients are equal opportunity employers