Job Title: Senior Quantity Surveyor
Location: South London
Salary: Up to £75k + Package
Contract Type: Permanent
My client is a growing T1 contractor who work on some of the UKs largest infrastructure projects and clients.
They are currently looking for a talented and motivated individual to join a dynamic team, working on their civil engineering and infrastructure projects which are varied in value, complexity, and duration, from established frameworks to individual bespoke projects and unplanned emergency works. With projects varying from £200k to £10m+, you will be essential in driving efficiencies within the scope of work, driving cost efficiency and providing a high standard of commercial analysis. The role will see you demonstrating your commercial acumen daily, by identifying, recording, tracking and realizing commercial opportunities, whilst mitigating business risk.
Key Responsibilities:
As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you will take a leadership role in the management of a project's commercial aspects, ensuring that accurate, timely, and contract-compliant documentation is issued. You will work closely with the project management and engineering teams while liaising with the client and employer's commercial teams to deliver the project efficiently and within budget.
What We Offer:
...- Salary up to £75k + Package
- Flexible working arrangements
- Company Pension
- Life Assurance
- Private Medical
- 25 days annual leave in addition to 8 public bank holidays and loyalty days
- Health cover
- 8 hours volunteering
- Flexible benefits via salary sacrifice
- Company car/car allowance
- Regular line management engagement and appraisal to support your career progression
- Development supported by internal and externally delivered training
- Leadership & management training and coaching
- Annual salary review
- Continuous service awards
Key responsibilities:
- Provision of accurate and timely cost and value reporting at both project and business unit levels to inform Group reporting
- Provision of accurate cash flow reporting
- Cost management and project forecasting
- Drafting and updating a monthly CVR, cost and commercial plans
- Compile upstream applications for payment and cash management
- Responsibility for subcontract procurement, negotiation and financial accounting
- Preparation of project applications for payment to final account settlement
- Liaison with clients, client representatives and other third parties on commercial issues, including agreement on matters relating to contractual change, claims and additional payment
- Work with the wider project team to forecast predicted expenditure and cash recovery to ensure that both are in line with business unit expectation
- Share best practices with others and take a proactive approach in advising site teams on cost management and efficiencies
- Identification and realisation of commercial opportunities
- Effectively manage contract and subcontract agreements, primarily IChemE and NEC forms
- Ensure that main contracts entered into have terms and conditions that align to the company's corporate governance, with commercial risks and opportunities identified and managed in conjunction with the project delivery team.
- Procurement of subcontracted works and subsequent subcontract post contract management
- Ensure that the supply chain is engaged appropriately with the correct contract terms and conditions
- Supply chain management including building and maintaining relationships
- Support all internal commercial processes by ensuring adherence to timeframes and compliance
- Actively seek to improve processes and procedures
- Accurate internal and external forecasting
- Ability to interrogate and challenge records, reports and cost data
- Mitigate commercial risk, identify and realise commercial opportunities
- Work to achieve profit in line with business unit expectations
- Maintaining deadlines in line with monthly commercial calendars
- Produce high-quality commercial documentation
- Foster and maintain excellent supply chain, stakeholder and client relationships.
What We Are Looking For
Essential:
- Full driving licence
- Previous experience in the construction industry
- Familiarity with IChemE/ NEC forms of contract and knowledge and understanding of Construction Law
- Previous experience in commercial management and procurement of subcontractors, including chairing regular meetings, measurement and control cycle, certificates, and accruals calculations
- Demonstrable experience of monthly forecasting and cost analysis.Proficiency in a range of IT packages, including Microsoft Office
- Excellent organisation and time management skills, with the ability to work effectively to tight deadlines
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
- Previous experience in commercial management and procurement of subcontractors, including chairing regular meetings, measurement and control cycle, certificates, and accruals calculations
Desired:
- Degree-qualified or equivalent, or with relevant experience and knowledge.
- Member of RICS or other relevant professional body, or working towards
- Experience working for a direct delivery contractor
- CSCS card holder.
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience in estimation
- An engaging communicator with problem-solving skills
Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.
Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.
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