Senior Quantity Surveyor

Turner & Townsend; Thirsk; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a senior commercial professional to lead cost management across complex construction programmes in the UK. You will monitor budgets, forecast outcomes and manage contract cash flow with NEC3, Option C, ensuring governance and timely applications.

You will collaborate with client and contractor teams to drive value, control changes and optimise final accounts, while mentoring project teams and promoting best practices throughout the project lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills and stakeholder engagement.
• Experience with NEC3 contracts (Option C preferred).
• Strong cost management and financial forecasting capabilities.
• Ability to manage change control and valuation processes.
• Proven track record in cost reporting and governance.
• Experience in procurement, risk management and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Monitor project cost monitoring, forecasting and reporting to completion within budget.
• Proactively manage cost variance and contract cash flow; ensure timely and correct applications.
• Collaborate with client and contractor teams to manage deliverables, KPIs and programme performance.
• Manage contract changes, governance and best practices.
• Improve forecast and budget accuracy; provide support to stakeholders.
• Negotiate final accounts and lead project teams as required.

Skills

Communication

Contract management

Cost management

Change management

Valuation

Risk management

Procurement

Estimating

Pricing

Reporting

Collaborative approach

Sharing best practice

People management

Commission management

Value engineering

Industry knowledge

Education

Degree qualified or equivalent in a relevant subject

Professional body membership (or equivalent)

Tools

NEC3

NEC3 Option C

Job description

with project objectives and policies.Providing accurate project cost monitoring, forecasting and reporting to completion in line with budget.Pro-actively monitoring and managing cost variance and contract cash flow, and ensuring that applications are made correctly and in a timely manner.Collaborating with client and contractor teams to manage the delivery of project deliverables, KPIs, and objectives, including programme performance, cost control, and value engineering.Managing contract change effectively, ensuring that projects remain within governance and adopt best practice.Driving improvements in the accuracy of forecasts and budgets.Proactively providing sound commercial knowledge and support to all stakeholders.Ensuring that final accounts are negotiated and agreed.Leading people and commissions as needed.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication
• Contract
• Management (NEC3, Option C preferred)
• Cost Management
• Change management and control
• Valuation
• Risk Management
• Procurement
• Estimating
• Pricing
• Reporting
• Collaborative approach and best-for-project attitude
• Sharing best practice
• People management
• Commission management
• Identifying and driving efficiencies and improvements through the project life cycle
• Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management and value engineering.
• Ideally Degree qualified (or equivalent) in a relevant subject
• Ideally hold or be working towards an appropriate professional body membership or equivalent

Additional Information

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time. Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.

SummaryType: Full-time Function: Engineering Experience level: Mid-Senior Level Industry: Construction

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people's lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world's most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world's largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.