Senior Quantity Surveyor

Costain; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in smart infrastructure solutions seeks a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join their team in Manchester. This role involves commercial management of diverse water and wastewater projects, ensuring budget compliance and delivering high-quality results. Applicants should have substantial experience in the water sector and relevant qualifications, offering a competitive salary and hybrid working options.

Qualifications

• Significant commercial experience preferably in the water sector.
• Full Clean Drivers Licence.
• Near completion of Full Membership of either RICS or CICES.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for commercial management of a portfolio of projects.
• Prepare and agree final accounts with subcontractors.
• Maintain registers of variations, delay, extension times and claims.

Skills

Commercial management

Risk management

Cost analysis

Education

Relevant degree in Quantity Surveying

Job description

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Job Description

United Utilities have awarded Costain a Managed Service Provider (MSP) framework contract. Under the contract Costain provide the overall management and delivery of United Utilities' larger-scale water and wastewater asset maintenance activities across the entirety of its network, including 96 water treatment and 575 wastewater treatment sites, which serves over six million people in the Northwest of England.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join the dynamic Core Project Team on the Framework, which delivers critical and complex infrastructure improvements for our client United Utilities. Projects range in value and the Senior Quantity Surveyor will be directly responsible for the commercial management of a portfolio of projects.

The role of the Senior Quantity Surveyor is to provide commercial support on projects to ensure that it is procured, delivered within budget and to the highest quality whilst exceeding our customers' expectations. You will lead and develop where necessary the efficient and effective management and issue of accurate, timely and compliant notices and correspondence and ensure the compliance of all contractual activities on the project. You will ensure contractual and commercial risks and opportunities are identified to the Project Director / Commercial Manager and address in a timely manner.

The role is based around Hybrid working within our Manchester Office and home and ideally you will be based in or around the North West, where you will have the opportunity to visit operational sites across the region.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining registers of variations, delay, extension times and claims, effective and consistent implementation of the Company's commercial policies and procedures, within a timely manner
• Assist with preparation of monthly progress valuations and claim for work completed
• Liaise with Employers commercial team & client team within a collaborative manner to leverage opportunity and optimise the project outturn
• Produce pre-Contract tender negotiations & reports where necessary
• Produce monthly cost reports, forecasts, and Contract Budget reports to ensure details are appropriately underpinned and robust
• Review value management / value engineering exercises
• Advise on Risk management & participate in Risk workshop
• Prepare, review and complete of sub-contract documentation
• Plan change management and cost control
• Produce and monitor Commercial / Contractual correspondence and issues to reflect COSTAIN best practice
• Prepare & agree final accounts with sub contractor
• Review subcontract tender enquiries
• Agree final accounts
• Identify and price specification changes
• Manage subcontracts from initial placement of order to final account
• Monitor and update Procurement Plan, Sub-contract procurement including analysing commercial comparisons
• Produce requisition and award letters
• Attend site meetings where necessary to guide any direct reports, review progress and implement best practice
• Reconcile weekly plant, material, labour reconciliation against budget
• Monitor cash to ensure payments made on time to COSTAIN

Qualifications

• Experience of NEC form of Contract
• Significant commercial experience preferably in the water sector
• Increasing knowledge of a variety of forms & options of contracts
• Have a good understanding and experience of business systems, spreadsheet development, cost analysis, programme evaluation and development, compensation event and/or variations assessment and evaluation
• Have experience or appreciation of the risk management process for both schedule and cost and the use of Earned Value Management
• Full Clean Drivers Licence
• Relevant degree / equivalent in Quantity Surveying
• Hold / nearing completion of Full Membership of either RICS or CICES

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About Us

Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

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