Quantity Surveyor

Allscreens Nationwide Ltd; Preston; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory pension scheme

Health Care Cash Plan

Life assurance

Cycle to work

25 days annual leave

Discretionary bonus

Job summary

M Group in the United Kingdom seeks a Commercial Manager to oversee the commercial lifecycle of long-term water infrastructure projects within the Clean Water Capital Delivery framework. You will ensure robust cost control, prepare valuations, and manage subcontract engagement through to final account.

The role requires experience in the Water Industry, ability to manage complex contracts, and a valid UK driving licence.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Water and Waste Water industry preferred.
• Ability to manage commercial aspects of long-term contracts.
• Experience providing commercial expertise to technical teams.
• Experience managing supplier relationships.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and review contract operations to meet commercial objectives.
• Manage full commercial lifecycle from pre-contract to final account.
• Prepare valuations, payment applications, and supporting documentation.
• Produce cost reports, forecasts, CVRs and cashflow summaries.
• Lead subcontract engagement from tender to final account and manage procurement.

Skills

Commercial management

Contract management

Supplier relationships

UK driving licence

Cost reporting

Job description

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where you'll be working?

We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.

This role will be within our Clean Water Capital Delivery Team - Our teams deliver various schemes from Mains Renewal, Diversions and PMVs all in aid of supporting the UU clean water network.

What you'll be doing?

You’ll sit in Commercial Team on a Framework Contract and will monitor and review the activities of the contract operation to enable the company to meet its commercial objectives and targets. The contract is on our long term Framework with United Utilities undertaking Clean Water Mains Replacement activities.

You’ll manage the full commercial lifecycle of projects from pre‑contract through to final account, preparing accurate valuations and applications for payment with full contractual support and compliant documentation. Produce detailed cost reports, forecasts, CVRs, and cashflow summaries, ensuring robust cost control, WIP management, and value capture. Prepare and administer subcontract and procurement schedules, lead subcontract engagement from tender enquiry to final account, and manage supplier accounts, payments, and contract drafting—including professional services agreements.

What you’ll bring

• Do you have knowledge of the Water and Waste Water Industry?
• Do you have the ability to manage the commercial aspects of complex and long-term contracts of significant value?
• Do you have significant ability in providing commercial expertise to technical specialists?
• Do you have significant experience managing supplier relationships?
• Do you have a full UK driving license?

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;

• Contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme
• Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!

In addition, this role offers;

• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
• Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Discretionary bonus scheme

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.