Quantity Surveyor

Adey Steel Group; Loughborough; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Adey Steel Group is seeking a Quantity Surveyor to support the Contract and Project Management team in commercial and financial management across rail division projects.

You will assist in contract programmes, valuations, cost reporting, procurement liaison and final account preparation, ensuring timely, accurate information for the commercial function.

Qualifications

• Experience in construction and steel quantity surveying, including NEC and JCT contracts.
• CSCS certification preferred.
• Hold a relevant qualification in Quantity Surveying.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Must be well organized with good time management skills.
• Accurate and methodical approach to maintaining financial and commercial information.
• Basic understanding of wider construction processes.
• Good understanding and competency with MS Office (Excel, Word) and MS Projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide QS support and services to the Contract and Project managers.
• Assist in development of contract programmes.
• Ensure activity schedules and application dates are understood and followed.
• Maintain contract reviews and financial reports for review by the team.
• Administer valuations and pricing of variations.
• Report anomalies on client accounts to PMs.
• Maintain cost value reconciliations (P&L).
• Develop knowledge relevant to contract conditions.
• Monitor job costings against quoted figures and flag anomalies.
• Assist with procurement of goods and services and liaise with purchasing.
• Chase agreement on prices.
• Ensure timely completion of information for Commercial Manager to liaise on final accounts.
• Liaise with other departments and clients and professional team.
• Understand Health & Safety regulations.

Skills

Quantity surveying

NEC contracts

JCT contracts

CSCS

MS Excel

MS Word

MS Projects

Time management

Communication

Education

Quantity Surveying degree or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Projects

Driving Licence

Job description

Support the Contract and Project Management team with all aspects of commercial and financial management. Monitoring, recording an analysing costs and resources and enhancing the value of contracts through effective financial control.Assist with reviews of contracts to mitigating Adey Steel commercial risk through appropriate use of contracts with particular emphasis on providing commercial support to the rail division.

Job Description:

• Provide QS support and services to the Contract and Project managers.
• Assist Contract and Project Managers in the application and development of contract programmes.
• Ensure activity schedules and application dates are understood and followed in line with the contract requirements.
• Ensure contract reviews and contract financial reports are maintained, are accurate and are available for review by other members of the Adey Steel team.
• Administer valuations and the pricing of variations.
• Report to Contract and Project Managers any anomalies on a Client account.
• Maintain records cost value reconciliations (profit and loss)
• Development of knowledge relevant to contract conditions.
• Monitor job costings against quoted figures raising any anomalies with the Contract and Project Managers.
• Assist Contract and Project Managers with procurement of goods and services, and liaise with the purchasing department.
• Chase agreement on prices
• Ensure applications are completed on time with Commercial Manager and Contract/Project Manager
• Ensure timely completion of all relevant information for Commercial Manager to liaise with Contract Manager on the final account.
• Liaise with other departments within the Company.
• Liaise and negotiate with the client and members of the professional team.
• Understand the implications of the Health & Safety Regulations.
• Attending meetings, both internally and externally, to support commercial requirements.

Skills and Qualifications

• Experience in construction and steel quantity surveying, including NEC and JCT contracts.
• Ideally CSCS (Construction Skills Certification Scheme).
• Hold a relevant qualification in Quantity Surveying.
• Excellent Communication skills both written and verbally.
• Must be well organised with good time management skills.
• Have an accurate and methodical approach to maintaining financial and commercial information.
• Basic understanding of the wider construction processes.
• Good understanding and competency with the use of Microsoft Office, specifically Excel, Word and Microsoft Projects.
• Full Driving Licence.

The job description provides a framework for the role and should not be regarded as a definitive list of duties and responsibilities. You will be required to carry out any other reasonable duties within the overall function, appropriate with the level of responsibilities of this post.