Quantity Surveyor

Skanska UK Plc; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction group is seeking a Quantity Surveyor for a highways project in Cambridge. The role focuses on cost management, subcontractor administration, and collaboration with site teams to enhance project outcomes. Candidates should have relevant experience, familiarity with NEC contracts, and a degree in Quantity Surveying. Embracing diversity and offering flexibility in work arrangements, the company is committed to responding to every applicant.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Quantity Surveyor with a main contractor.
• Experience with NEC forms of contract.
• MRICS or CICES status is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Oversee subcontractor administration including cost forecasting.
• Work with operations for effective cost and value management.
• Identify and value change, risks, and opportunities.

Skills

Contractual understanding

Cost management

Forecasting

Education

BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying

Job description

Skanska, one of the world’s leading project development and construction groups, is an inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build a better society.

We are looking for a Quantity Surveyor to join our Infrastructure highways team in Cambridgeshire on the A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet improvement project. The purpose of the National Highways scheme is to address the problems of congestion, poor journey time reliability and poor resilience against incidents between the Black Cat and Caxton Gibbet roundabouts, via a new 10km dual carriageway.

What you'll do:

• Undertake and oversee subcontractor administration: forecasts, liabilities, payments and change control
• Forecasting, reporting and analysis of labour, plant and material costs
• Work closely with the operations team for effective cost and value management
• Identification and valuation of change, risks and opportunities
• Liaise with the site Client representatives on commercial issues, including the agreement of costs

What you'll bring to the role:

• Experienced Quantity Surveyor, with main contractor background, ideally with experience working on a highways project
• Experience with NEC forms of contract and subcontract and understanding of contractual requirements
• BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying or equivalent in commercial related subject
• MRICS or CICES desirable
• Able to work effectively with all disciplines of the site team to deliver results

Equal opportunities

We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic – we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.

We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.

Reasonable adjustments

We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using [e-mail] if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.

More information about the role

Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska. For a full role profile, please contact us: [e-mail]

The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business.

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