Commercial Operations - Assistant Quantity Surveyor

Medirest Signature; England; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Medirest Signature is hiring an Assistant Quantity Surveyor to join their commercial management team focused on National Highways' £1bn investment programme. This role involves agreeing rates and conducting defined cost audits, with opportunities for commercial management responsibilities and hybrid working arrangements.

Benefits

Performance related bonus

Contributory pension scheme with up to 10% employer contribution

Annual Leave starting at 26 days plus Bank Holidays

Flexible hours and hybrid working

Life assurance of 4 times annual salary

Health and wellbeing support

Significant investment in career development

Qualifications

• Basic experience in NEC4 forms of contract.
• Awareness of people and equipment defined cost audits.

Responsibilities

• Agreeing people and equipment rates through defined cost audit activities.
• You will contribute to the day-to-day commercial management of schemes.

Skills

Intermediate level MS Excel

Good written and verbal communication skills

Good commercial awareness

Education

Degree/HND in Quantity Surveying or relevant qualification

Working towards Chartered qualification (RICS, ICES)

Job description

About the job.

We are expanding our commercial management team to support National Highways' annual £1bn investment programme to maintain the Strategic Road Network. As part of this, we have exciting opportunities for Assistant Quantity Surveyors with an interest in defined cost auditing to join our centralised audit team, which is responsible for agreeing people and equipment rates.

In this role, you will primarily focus on agreeing people and equipment rates through a programme of defined cost audit activities (approximately 80% of the role) within the centralised audit team. You will support the agreement of the rates in line with the schedule of cost components with the 65 suppliers on our two operations delivery NEC based contracts. From initial supplier contact, through checking submissions and evidence of actual people cost build ups from first principles, the output will provide the regional commercial teams information to support their assessments.

In addition to your audit responsibilities, you may also get the opportunity to contribute to the day-to-day commercial management of schemes within the regional office's local renewals capital programme.

This is a national role that can be based at Birmingham, Bristol, Basingstoke, Maidstone, Nottingham, Preston, Warrington, Wakefield. The position also requires monthly travel to Birmingham for team days and to contractor offices for cost audits. We offer a flexible hybrid working approach, combining local office work with agile home working.

• Supporting and, where appropriate, leading on defined cost audits to agree and reconcile annual people and equipment audits, and, when required, in depth contract audits against specific NH NEC4 based operations delivery contract requirements.
• Maintaining collaborative working relationships with supply chain contractors. This will include scheduling meetings, issuing and recording the receipt of detailed audit information (including financial templates and supporting information).
• Contributing to the audit team reporting process including the review of submitted information.
• Liaising with other departments and regional commercial teams to ensure that trackers are up-to-date, data is accurate and reconciled against other sources.
• Assisting, when required, in the management of operations contracts including early warnings, compensation events, assessments and close out.

About you.

• You must have one of the following:
  • To have either achieved or be working towards a degree/HND in Quantity Surveying or other relevant technical qualification and/or completion of a formally recognised graduate programme, apprenticeship or similar.
  • Working towards a Chartered qualification within a relevant professional organisation, such as RICS, ICES, or equivalent.
• Basic experience in NEC4 forms of contract (including awareness of building up rates under the NEC Schedule of Cost Components option C/E) together with an awareness of people and equipment defined cost audits.
• Intermediate level MS Excel (basic formula, pivot tables, formatting).
• Good written and verbal communication skills to engage effectively with a variety of stakeholders.
• Good commercial awareness and understanding of commercial management

About us.

Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England's motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.

Operations is at the heart of keeping the strategic road network moving and ensuring our customers get the best possible experience when using our roads.

We address over 39,000 customer enquiries every month, plan and deliver all maintenance activities on the network, drive efficiencies and improvements across our systems and roads, and respond to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads that we manage. All to make sure National Highways customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys.

Why you should join us

At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We're proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.

So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it - then you'll be a great fit for our organisation.

A connected and sustainable working approach has been adopted across National Highways. For some roles, this means being able to work in a hybrid way spending up to 60% of time working from a remote location such as home.

We offer many different ways to work flexibly and we're open to discuss part-time working, job shares, and flexible start and finish times.

Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible.

Our benefits package

• Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus
• Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of up to 10%
• Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)
• Flexible hours and an approach driven by connected and sustainable working which includes hybrid working
• Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
• Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines
• A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
• Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience

And we are

• Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities
• Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme
• Community friendly - offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year

If you are successful, it is key to know all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory completion of our pre-employment checks which include:

• Right to work check
• 3 year employment history references
• DBS criminal record check
• Social media and adverse journalism check
• Driving licence check (if applicable)
• Fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable)
• Qualifications and/or professional membership check (if applicable)

And finally

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