Quantity Surveyor / Senior Quantity Surveyor

Salary: £26,000 per year

About the role

Join our Tier 1 Major Projects team as a Quantity Surveyor / Senior Quantity Surveyor on the Hinkley Point C Project. The role is working within the package management team working with subcontractors. Packages range from £26,000m to £10m in value. Packages relate to the tunnel shaft connection team and is working on NEC cost reimbursement contracts. Subsistence can be offered if eligible and transferrable skills from a heavy civils / infrastructure background on large schemes such as HS2 etc.

Experienced QS who has a track record in managing all costs relating to building and civil engineering projects, from the initial calculations to the final figures.

Minimise the costs of a project and enhance value for money, while still achieving the required standards and quality.

 What you’ll be doing

As a Quantity Surveyor you will:

Governance

• Have a good knowledge of and adheres to the Company’s GMCEs, BMS and other governance

Analytical Thinking & Decision Making

• Order information and systematically checks data
• Maximise digital opportunities.

Cost Engineering

• Prepare Activity Schedules, Resource Schedules & analyses tender documents

Estimating

• Critically appraises, estimates and negotiates the above with 3rd parties

Planning

• Review complex contract programmes such as Time-Location
• Assist with the preparation of delay and disruption programmes

Project Management

• Monitor subcontract activities, measure and respond appropriately.
• Analyse the commercial progress and report to senior project staff;
• Manage commercial aspects with Customer and Stakeholders for their area of responsibility.

Procurement

• Undertake constructability analyses using construction programmes.
• Prepare procurement programme and helps develop the strategy.

Commercial Management

• Analyse rates & prices, agreement of variations and or compensation events as required.
• Undertake customer and stakeholder management for their area of responsibility.
• Prepare, submits and negotiates claims when required.
• Prepare Internal reports, commercial progress, and financial reconciliation.

Development, Recruitment and Retention

• Maintain own Personal Development Plan
• Manage HR/People aspects for direct and indirect reports (PDRs etc)
• Actively supports the development of others incl professional mentoring
• Produce plans for team to achieve goals / aspirations
• Support recruitment of lower grades.

Who we’re looking for

BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying or experience equivalent

Membership of RICS, ICES or CIOB (or working towards)

The following qualities/experience are desirable

Communication

• Teamwork / Role Model

Leadership

• Achievement Focus (Achieving Results)
• Business and Customer Awareness
• Applies organisational aims & objectives
• Identifies with the customer needs
• Recognises opportunities & threats

Why work for us

Day in, day out, delivering amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

About us

Our client is committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes them a better business. To ensure they deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps they are taking to make this a reality.