Senior Quantity Surveyor

Distribution; Bathgate; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous Salary

25 days Holiday with option to buyMore

Pension Cycle to work scheme

Free parking

Health & wellbeing programme

Employee benefits portal

On-site parking

Private medical insurance

Referral Scheme

Job summary

Aureos Energy is seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join the Commercial Team, delivering profitable commercial results and supporting project delivery across national infrastructure schemes.

You will provide commercial reporting, cost control, and guidance on subcontracting, change control, and risk management while working with clients and the project team to maximise value and performance.

Qualifications

• Essential: Degree educated or HND/HNC equivalent.
• Working towards Professional Qualification.
• Substantial post degree experience working in contracting commercial department.
• Working knowledge of construction industry conditions of contract.
• Proficient in Microsoft packages (Excel)

Responsibilities

• Reporting to the Commercial Manager, you will assist the commercial team in providing support to the contract delivery team to ensure profitability, cash management, cost control and accurate reporting of all schemes.
• Management of application and credit control processes.
• Management of optimisation of income.
• Management of all processes with regard to costing and forecasting.
• Management of change control system.
• Input into the management of project risk.

Education

Degree educated / HND/HNC equivalent

Working towards Professional Qualification

Tools

Excel

Job description

Senior Quantity Surveyor Working within Aureos Energy, and forming a part of the Commercial team, the Senior Quantity Surveyor plays an integral part in delivering exceptional commercial results.

Core responsibilities encompass project delivery, commercial reporting and maximising profit.

Aureos work collaboratively with our customers to deliver critical national infrastructure projects across the UK’s rail network.

Our goals are to: Grow: turnover, margin and customer satisfaction Improve: operational delivery, reliability and outcomes Sustain: our people, communities and the environment

Aureos Action Agenda – Unleashing our potential, a business-wide strategy focusing on seven key priorities.

• Sustainable innovation: Embedding sustainable improvements with an aim to be net zero
• Structure and Governance: Through monthly Performance review meetings and clear delegation of authority
• Business Development and Customer Relationship Management: Growing into new markets and developing relationships and strategies with new and existing customers
• Safety, Health and Wellbeing: implementing tiers of H&S management and bring the operational input to the fore
• People and inclusion: With specific training and succession planning
• Operational effectiveness: Enhancing our capabilities and strengthening the existing core of the business #onekeltbray Digitisation: Through an internal Programme Management office, lean tools, and digital platforms.

With sustainable growth in mind, our Senior Quantity Surveyor is responsible for assisting the commercial team in completing and maintaining well organised records, contribution to the timely production of applications for payment and accurate project reporting.

Primary tasks and duties

• Reporting to the Commercial Manager, you will assist the commercial team in providing support to the contract delivery team to ensure the profitability, cash management, cost control and accurate reporting of all schemes.
• Management of application and credit control processes
• Management of optimisation of income
• Management of all processes with regard to costing and forecasting
• Management of change control system
• Input into the management of project risk
• Management of CTC and CVRs
• Management of the full sub-contract cycle
• Provision of commercial advice to Project Team
• Development of team spirit and trustworthiness within Project Commercial Team and with Client and S/C
• Management of dispute resolution
• Communications within the Project Commercial Team and with the Project Team
• Management of Training plans
• Input into the tendering process

Secondary tasks and duties

• We operate a team ethos across the Energy Business Unit and strive to assist colleagues in the execution of their duties where this is appropriate and brings added value.
• The Senior Quantity Surveyor is responsible for the following in this respect:
• Ensure that the group commercial policies are adhered to and that the requirements of legislation are met
• Manage commercial performance against business targets and KPI’s
• Working with the commercial and operational teams to strive for continuous improvement
• Promote a culture of integration, continuous improvement and use of best practice across the client base
• Assisting with the use of key lean tools to drive efficiencies and reduce waste
• Encourage, support and assist with the delivery of successful collaborative planning with the contract delivery teams
• Commitment to their own professional development, and that of others across the Business Unit
• Other tasks appropriate to the role of Senior Quantity Surveyor, as identified by the Senior Senior Quantity Surveyor/Managing Surveyor

Behaviours

• Trust and respect: We act with integrity and treat everyone with respect. We have an open and honest working environment in which everyone contributes effectively We deliver on our commitments and support others across our team to deliver on theirs.
• Accountability and decision making: We ensure responsibilities are clearly defined and fulfilled, and that performance is managed fairly. Everyone knows what is expected of them and how their job fits into the bigger picture We include the right people in the right conversations, making decisions in an effective and timely manner; we take accountability for our actions and ownership of the outcomes.
• Communication and engagement: We are a high performing, collaborative team of effective communicators. We willingly share information across the team to the benefit of all When communicating, we provide clarity and seek feedback to ensure understanding.
• Constructive challenge: We are open to challenge and welcome diversity of opinion. We welcome the opinions of others, even when they differ from our own We challenge in a constructive and professional manner to promote success.
• Improvement and innovation: We challenge the status quo to find better ways of working. Everyone in the team proactively shares ideas without fear We learn from successes and mistakes to promote continual improvement.

Qualifications and Training

• Essential: Degree educated or HND/HNC equivalent.
• Working towards Professional Qualification
• Substantial post degree experience working in contracting commercial department
• Working knowledge of construction industry conditions of contract
• Proficient in Microsoft packages (Excel)

In return you will receive

• Generous Salary
• 25 days Holiday with the option to buy more
• Pension Cycle to work scheme
• Free parking
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Employee benefits portal.
• On-site parking
• Private medical insurance
• Referral Scheme

Equal Opportunities

Aureos are an equal opportunities employer, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

Aureos is a multi-disciplinary energy and transport networks specialist engineering services provider, spanning the design, engineering, installation, maintenance, and crisis response of critical infrastructures across power, renewables, nuclear decommissioning, railways, highways and local government sectors.