Quantity Surveyor Resume Example
Bill-of-quantities layout: numbered item references, a right-hand value column for each role and a cost-plan summary.
Use this example Template: Quantity Surveyor
Priya Nair
Senior Quantity Surveyor, MRICS
priya.nair@example.com+44 7700 900 418London, United Kingdomlinkedin.com/in/priyanair-mrics
Summary
Chartered quantity surveyor (MRICS) with 9 years on client-side cost management for UK infrastructure, healthcare and residential schemes. I run cost plans, procurement and NEC4 commercial management on projects up to £640m, and my last three schemes closed within 1.5% of the approved budget.
Experience
1.0
Senior Quantity Surveyor — Infrastructure
Turner & Townsend · London
Feb 2021 – Present
- Client-side commercial lead on a £640m Thames Water tunnel and treatment upgrade under NEC4 Option C
- Assessed 410 compensation events; agreed £21m against £34m claimed, with no adjudications
- Built a Power BI cost dashboard linked to the earned-value model, now used for monthly board reporting
£640mScheme value
2.0
Quantity Surveyor — Healthcare
Gleeds · Birmingham, UK
Sep 2017 – Jan 2021
- Cost-planned 6 NHS hospital schemes from RIBA Stage 1 to 4 (£210m) and ran two-stage tenders on ProCure23
- Value engineering on the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital fit-out saved £4.6m
£210mHospital programme
3.0
Assistant Quantity Surveyor
Kier Group · Manchester, UK
Aug 2015 – Aug 2017
- Measured and valued monthly applications for 4 residential blocks (420 homes) and settled 38 subcontract accounts
Cost outcome summary
| Ref. | Scheme | Budget | Outturn |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.1 | Thames Water tunnel & treatment | £640.0m | £648.2m (forecast) |
| A.2 | Midland Metropolitan Hospital fit-out | £58.0m | £57.1m |
| A.3 | NHS diagnostic centre, Walsall | £24.5m | £24.8m |
| A.4 | Salford residential, 420 homes | £61.3m | £62.0m |
Skills
Commercial: Cost planning (NRM1) · NEC4 & JCT contracts · Procurement & tendering · Change & claims · Whole-life costing
Tools: CostX · CATO · Power BI · Bluebeam · Excel
Certifications
- MRICS — Chartered Quantity SurveyorRoyal Institution of Chartered Surveyors · Mar 2019
- NEC4 Project Manager AccreditationNEC · May 2022
- APM Project Fundamentals QualificationAssociation for Project Management · Jan 2018
Education
BSc · Quantity Surveying (RICS-accredited)
University of Reading
Sep 2012 – Jun 2015
Languages
- EnglishNative
- MalayalamFluent
- HindiConversational (B1)
Summary example
Chartered quantity surveyor (MRICS) with [N] years on client-side cost management for UK infrastructure, healthcare and residential schemes. I run cost plans, procurement and NEC4 commercial management on projects up to [$X], and my last three schemes closed within [X%] of the approved budget.
Example bullet points for a Quantity Surveyor
- Client-side commercial lead on a [$X] Thames Water tunnel and treatment upgrade under NEC4 Option C
- Assessed [N] compensation events; agreed [$X] against [$X] claimed, with no adjudications
- Built a Power BI cost dashboard linked to the earned-value model, now used for monthly board reporting
- Cost-planned [N] NHS hospital schemes from RIBA Stage [N] to [N] ([$X]) and ran two-stage tenders on ProCure23
- Value engineering on the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital fit-out saved [$X]
- Measured and valued monthly applications for [N] residential blocks ([N] homes) and settled [N] subcontract accounts
Replace the [brackets] with your own numbers and facts. Never claim results you didn't achieve.
Skills to include
- Cost planning (NRM1)
- NEC4 & JCT contracts
- Procurement & tendering
- Change & claims
- Whole-life costing
- CostX
- CATO
- Power BI
- Bluebeam
- Excel
Tips for a Quantity Surveyor resume
- Put the hard requirements recruiters screen for in the top third: Cost planning (NRM1), NEC4 & JCT contracts, Procurement & tendering.
- List current credentials with the issuing body, e.g. MRICS — Chartered Quantity Surveyor, NEC4 Project Manager Accreditation.
- Give every recent role at least one measured result — for example scheme value.
- Match the job title in your headline to the posting where it is honest to do so.
- Run the built-in resume checker and paste the job description into the keyword match before you download.
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