Job Title: Quantity Surveyor
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: £42,000 - £48,700
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF69429
Shape the Future of Defence Engineering
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Quantity Surveyor at Faslane, near Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute.
The role
As a Quantity Surveyor, you’ll play a vital role in supporting our mission to maintain and enhance critical defence infrastructure. This is an exciting opportunity to influence high‑profile projects across the Naval Base Projects Division, contributing to work that protects national security and supports the Royal Navy.
You’ll help shape commercial standards, strengthen our approach to whole‑life costing, and drive a culture of best practice across a growing professional team. It’s a role that offers real purpose, long‑term career development and the chance to build deep expertise in a unique, mission‑critical environment.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
- Develop and embed contractual standards, processes and governance across the team.
- Challenge tendering and procurement strategies to maximise value and performance.
- Control, measure and report on cost and quality performance with Project Officers.
- Produce cost estimates, feasibility studies and commercial evaluations.
- Measure, value, negotiate and agree valuations and final accounts, resolving issues to the benefit of the business.
This is a full‑time, permanent position, working 36 hours across four days per week. This role is based at Faslane, and hybrid working arrangements are available.
Essential experience of the Quantity Surveyor
- Experience working as a Quantity Surveyor within construction, engineering, infrastructure or a comparable environment.
Qualifications for the Quantity Surveyor:
We welcome applications from all backgrounds. If you can demonstrate the required experience, capability and willingness to learn, we would like to hear from you. Formal qualifications are not essential.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
What we offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.
Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 05/02/2026
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