DIO - Senior Quantity Surveyor

Defence Infrastructure Organisation; Catterick Garrison; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the Defence Infrastructure Organisation to play a vital role in supporting the Defence estate. This position offers the opportunity to manage compliance and ensure effective service delivery while working collaboratively with a diverse range of colleagues and suppliers. You'll help the armed forces meet their infrastructure needs while contributing to sustainability goals, backed by a highly competitive pension scheme and a commitment to diversity.

Benefits

Highly competitive Pension Scheme

25 days annual leave rising to 30 days

Enhanced Parental Leave

Working from home options

Free car parking on most sites

Gym and Sports & Social Clubs

Qualifications

• Experience managing compliance across a large portfolio.
• Proven experience in property management or similar.
• Understanding of estate-related legislative requirements.

Responsibilities

• Support Billable Works delivery against a growing portfolio.
• Provide cost estimates and assurance of service delivery.
• Establish relationships with suppliers and DIO colleagues.

Skills

Compliance management

Cost management

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Relevant experience in property management

Job description

Length of employment:

Job Summary:
Do you want to work for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and play a key role in keeping our country safe through caring for the Defence estate and those that depend on it? DIO manages the Defence estate, one of the UK's largest and most diverse property portfolios, enabling the armed forces and Defence civilians to live, work, train and deploy. From net carbon-zero accommodation to runways for the F35 fighter jets, our outputs are unique in the UK and across the globe!

Learn much more about DIO in our Candidate Information Guide attached.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job Description:
This is an exciting opportunity to work collaboratively with Industry Partners to ensure that we offer our Customer (UK based Armed Forces) value for money solutions in their many infrastructure challenges. This role requires establishing efficient and effective working relationships with the Suppliers, site based DIO colleagues and other customers to ensure the best workable pragmatic outcomes are derived and offer value for the property product offered. We work with Army, Navy, UK Strategic Command, Defence Equipment & Support and Royal Air Force customers as well as those from our Suppliers provide our end users swift suitable solutions to their infrastructure needs.

This is a high profile and at times exciting role from which the successful candidate will derive a significant sense of achievement in supporting Billable Works delivery against an ever growing portfolio of activity that directly supports the Customer to live work train and deploy whilst also striving to meet Government sustainability targets.

This post is within the Regional Technical Team (RTT) which is responsible for the delivery of Facilities Management assurance on all establishments withing the remit of Regional Delivery Central. The RTT leads the more technically complex work within the Command Infrastructure Delivery Plans and ensure delivery. You will be responsible for collaboratively conforming with all agreed DIO processes and Operating procedures to ensure service provision and delivery of VFM solutions for our customer community to a positive outcome. You will provide assurance of service delivery to support statutory compliance of the MOD estate, provide key customer engagement and feedback on Supplier's performance under Future Defence Infrastructure Service arrangements including issue resolution.The Post Holder will be required to travel throughout the Region to effectively delivery their outputs.

The Cost Management team undertake a variety of tasks for RTT and Operational teams within a matrix managed environment. You will work effectively with a wide range of internal and external customers, providing:

• Cost estimates for Construction Minor Works.
• Contractor Cost Data reviews and VFM Benchmarking.
• Cost Models on ad hoc Projects and Programmes.
• Tender Evaluation reviews.
• Ad hoc Cost Guidance to colleagues.
• Exercising Commercial Delegation to commit work to delivery
• Cost Assurance of delivered work
• Primary focus will be to support the TLB funded Command Infrastructure Delivery Plans and ensure delivery

All of this within a fast-paced agile delivery organisation.

• Highly competitive Pension Scheme with an average employer contribution of 27%.
• Alternative working practices such as working from home.
• Opportunity to join one of our several D&I Networks. We value diversity and are committed to being an equal opportunities employer.
• 25 days annual leave rising (1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of 5 years' service.
• Enhanced Parental Leave.
• Most sites have free car parking, Sports & Social Clubs, Gym, on site shops and subsidised canteens.

To learn more about our full range of benefits, view our Candidate Information Guide attached.

Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to capacity and any required workplace adjustments. Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD office, will also count towards this level of attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). Defence Business Services cannot respond to any questions about working arrangements.

The post does not offer relocation expenses.

External recruits who join the MOD who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a six-month probation period.

Please Note: Expenses incurred for travel to interviews will not be reimbursed.

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

Any move to MOD from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/ .

The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment however some exemptions are in place, please refer to local guidance. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.

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Essential Experience & Skills:

• Proven experience in compliance management across a large portfolio or/and complex organisation.
• Experience of working in a property management (or similar) organisation including experience of managing one of the following: fire, legionella, gas, asbestos, electrical, fuels.
• Understanding and complying with estate and property related legislative, statutory, regulatory and professional requirements.
• Relevant experience of working in highly collaborative environments and/or matrix managed organisations.

Please ensure that at the application and interview stages of the campaign you review the Success Profiles Framework to assist you in the demonstration of your skills and experience.

Your suitability for the role will be assessed using the Success Profile elements that have been chosen for this campaign. Each element will be scored accordingly, and the successful candidate will be appointed on merit.

Applications will be sifted on all Success Profile elements, but in the event of a high number of applications, an initial sift will be conducted on the leadership Behaviour and Personal Statement . In this instance all remaining elements will be tested at interview.

Candidates will be required to provide CV details to include job history; qualification details and previous skills and experience.

Candidates will be required to provide a statement of suitability (750 word limit)

At application you will be assessed against your CV, Statement of suitability and the following Success Profiles:

Behaviours:

• Leadership
• Making Effective Decisions

When choosing your Behaviour examples, please make sure you use real life scenarios that relate to your own experiences. Whilst technology may help to enhance your written submission, presenting the ideas of others or those generated by technology, could result in your application being rejected.

Technical Skills

• Government Property Career Framework - Career Framework - Cost Management - Technical Skills - 1. Property Professional Expertise
• Government Property Career Framework - Career Framework - Cost Management - Technical Skills - 3. Stakeholder Engagement
• Government Property Career Framework - Career Framework - Cost Management - Technical Skills - 8. Commercial Acumen

At interview you will be assessed against the above PLUS the following:

Experience

• Leadership
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing

Technical Skills

• Government Property Career Framework - Career Framework - Cost Management - Technical Skills - 1. Property Professional Expertise
• Government Property Career Framework - Career Framework - Cost Management - Technical Skills - 3. Stakeholder Engagement
• Government Property Career Framework - Career Framework - Cost Management - Technical Skills - 8. Commercial Acumen

We want to offer opportunities to all who are successful at interview for our roles, but this isn't always possible, so we do hold candidates on an active reserve list for 12 months. It is also possible that we may offer similar lower graded role/s to reserve candidates or, if no reserves are appointed, candidates that meet the lower grade criteria in merit order.

A minimum of 2 full working days' notice will be provided for interviews. We endeavour to stick to these dates, but these are subject to change around business needs.

To assist with your application please find attached below:

DIO Candidate Information Guide

Functional Framework if applicable

For help and support with your application check out our

Civil Service Careers Homepage and the How to apply section

The Ministry of Defence requires all candidates who are successful at interview to declare any outside interests. These declarations will be discussed with successful candidates following the interview process and before a formal offer of employment is made, as some outside interests may not be compatible with MOD civilian roles. This will not, in the majority of cases, prevent employment in MOD, but it is a measure that must be taken to ensure that appropriate mitigations can be put in place to manage any potential, perceived or actual conflicts of interest from the first day of employment.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact: .

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came in to effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system.

Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.