Quantity Surveyor & Projects Manager


Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Salary:	£47,241 to £47,241 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Swansea
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	25 Sept 2026
Closing date:	11 Oct 2026

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Summary

Can you lead complex capital projects from concept through to successful delivery, ensuring quality, value for money, and stakeholder satisfaction?

Have you managed large-scale estates, engineering, or lifecycle replacement projects while balancing competing priorities, budgets, and timescales?

Are you confident working with contractors, consultants, and suppliers to deliver high-quality project outcomes and drive continuous improvement?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

The Estates Management Group (EMG) plays a key role in ensuring the Agency’s estate remains safe, sustainable, and fit for the future. Working across a diverse property portfolio, the team delivers strategic infrastructure improvements, modernisation programmes, and operational support that enable business continuity. Through collaboration with internal and external partners, the team drives innovation, efficiency, and long-term estate performance while supporting the Agency’s wider goals and ambitions.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

Find out more about what it's like working at DVLA.

Join us in a key leadership role where you will shape and oversee the delivery of capital projects and lifecycle replacement programmes across a diverse estate. You will lead projects from concept to completion, ensuring robust governance, effective supplier performance, and value for money. Working with a wide range of stakeholders, you will help maintain safe, efficient, and sustainable facilities while driving continuous improvement and supporting the Agency’s long-term strategic objectives.

Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

Preparation of Specifications to advise and inform commercial procurement of services and project delivery via the Hard Services Contract and other available Commercial Frameworks. Undertake the technical evaluation of tenders, ensuring compliance with specifications and organisational requirements.
Provide effective management relating to the estate projects and life cycle replacement works affecting the efficient running of the Agency’s sites. Responsible for reporting of regular and timely information to the G7 Head of hard services and/or G6 Head of Estates.
Manage the supplier’s undertaking all large scale or complex projects and life-cycle replacement. Initial point of contact for complaints and issues in relation to project services.
Provide capital projects and lifecycle replacement knowledge to EMG SMT with a pipeline of projects and major works including decarbonisation and environmental improvements to help Develop future Estates Strategy.
Reporting against Capital Projects and Lifecycle replacement budget, performance, risks, dependencies, and mitigating actions. Act as a liaison point for the contract provider and professional advisors on new projects when raising commissions / feasibility studies.
Liaising with key stakeholders to identify and manage potential issues associated with planned projects and lifecycle replacement work, to ensure that all areas of the estate are always available to the business.
Management of direct reports to deliver capital projects and lifecycle replacement work across all Agency sites. Providing guidance, knowledge, thought leadership and mentoring to direct reports and wider members of the hard services team.
Financial management, financial evaluation of tenders and proposals, to ensure VFM. Managing final accounts and variations.

The role requires participation in the Hard Services team's on-call rota to provide operational support. A non-pensionable Recruitment and Retention Allowance of £3,000 per annum is currently payable for this requirement. Please note that the allowance is subject to review and may change over time.

Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills set out in the Civil Service Line Management Standards.

For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

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