Assistant Quantity Surveyor

Kbr; Warrington; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

KBR is seeking an Assistant Quantity Surveyor to support pre-contract commercial activities in its UK operations. The role focuses on procuring strategies, tendering, and managing live contracts with attention to NEC frameworks, ensuring accurate cost records and effective stakeholder engagement.

The candidate will regularly use CEMAR and ATAMIS and work with the wider remediation commercial team to audit costs and produce final accounts, located within daily commuting distance of the office.

Qualifications

• Solid experience with NEC contract management and stakeholder engagement.
• Able to work in a busy environment with shifting priorities.
• Independent workload management and sound commercial decisions.

Responsibilities

• Provide pre-contract commercial support and develop procurement strategies.
• Prepare contract documentation and lead tendering processes.
• Manage additional tenders within the procurement pipeline.
• Perform live contract management duties and maintain records in CEMAR/ATAMIS.
• Undertake cost audits on the new framework to ensure accuracy of costs.
• Complete final accounting of multiple contracts.
• Support the wider commercial team with cost audits and cost components.

Skills

NEC contract management

Stakeholder engagement

Workload management

Tools

CEMAR

ATAMIS

Procurement Plan

Job description

Title: Assistant Quantity Surveyor

OVERVIEW

Project Controls and Commercial Services (PCCS) is the mechanism in which Sellafield Ltd have engaged KBR Ltd to provide Commercial and Project Controls Services to the portfolio of enterprise projects, in addition to the original PPP programme. Those services include the provision of some 150+ Commercial and Project Controls Professionals across the Sellafield Ltd network of Projects.

KBR’s rapidly growing nuclear team of teams is working at the forefront of the UK’s nuclear space on some of the most exciting new-build, defence and decommissioning programmes.

KBR was recently named a “Great Place to Work-Certified” company in 2024, an honour that underscores the company’s commitment to being a UK employer of choice for people who want to do work that matters.

Due to the nature of our work and security requirements, KBR does not offer sponsorship for this role. We can only consider applicants with the right to live and work in the United Kingdom

Assistant Quantity Surveyor

The Assistant Quantity Surveyor (QS) will provide pre-contract commercial support, this will include

developing procurement and commercial strategies in collaboration with demanders, preparing all necessary contract documentation, and leading the tendering process.

The Assistant Quantity Surveyor will also be responsible for managing and progressing additional tenders within the area in line with the procurement pipeline.

In parallel, the Assistant Quantity Surveyor will undertake ongoing contract management duties for the live

contracts, ensuring accurate and timely maintenance of records in CEMAR, ATAMIS, and the Procurement Plan.

The scope also includes supporting the wider remediation commercial team by

undertaking actual cost audits on the new framework to ensure defined costs

are accurate and reflective of the Schedule of Cost Components.

The QS will also be responsible for completing the final accounting of multiple contracts.

The scope also includes supporting the wider commercial team by undertaking actual cost audits on the new framework to ensure defined costs are accurate and reflective of the Schedule of Cost Components.

Essential skills and experience

The Assistant Quantity Surveyor will have solid experience in NEC contract management, with a proven ability to engage effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.

They should be comfortable working in a busy environment with shifting and competing priorities, and must be able to work independently, managing their own workload and making sound commercial decisions.

The role would require regularly working in the office so you would need to be located in a daily commutable distance.

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