Senior Quantity Surveyor

Manpower RPO - Babcock; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join their dynamic team in Warrington. This role offers the opportunity to work on significant projects within the Nuclear Defence Support programme, providing commercial management and expertise. You'll engage with key stakeholders and oversee various commercial activities, ensuring operational excellence. The position supports hybrid working arrangements, allowing flexibility while contributing to impactful projects that enhance safety and security in the nuclear sector. If you have a strong background in Quantity Surveying and are ready to make a difference, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Holiday Trading

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in managing multiple projects in Engineering and Construction.
• Excellent commercial experience in large and complex contracts.

Responsibilities

• Provide commercial management and support to Quantity Surveyors.
• Manage the tender process and evaluate service providers.

Skills

Commercial Management

Contract Negotiation

Project Management

NEC3 Skills

Change Management

Education

Degree in Quantity Surveying

Job description

Job Title: Senior Quantity Surveyor
Location: Warrington, Cheshire + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF62833

At Cavendish Nuclear we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Quantity Surveyor, at our Warrington site.

The role
As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You will provide Quantity Surveying expertise in support of projects as part of our Nuclear Defence Support programme.

Day-to-day, you'll work with key internal stakeholders, client and suppliers/subcontractors to drive both strategic value and operational excellence through all levels of the business.

• Provide commercial management and support to Quantity Surveyors as may be applicable for each project / contract
• Review contracts and draft subcontract terms as required and appropriate
• Provide commercial support and expertise to projects being responsible for a range of commercial activities (bid governance, reviews, change management, compensation event contractual notices, etc.)
• Manage the tender process and the evaluation of all major/bespoke equipment /service providers ensuring they are fairly, robustly and adequately evaluated both commercially and technically and any evaluation is documented and will stand up to scrutiny by third parties
• Manage the post contract commercial management of subcontracts during project execution phases and mitigating the business exposure to subcontractor claims
• Settlement of Final Accounts with Sub-contractors

This role is full time, thirty-seven hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with three days in the office/onsite and two days working from home and is based at our Birchwood, Warrington hub.

Essential experience of the Senior Quantity Surveyor

• Good understanding of day to day commercial administration in the Engineering and Construction industries
• Experience in managing multiple projects at any given time
• Excellent generalist commercial experience
• Experience in delivering to project commercial strategy, and to delivering on large and complex contracts and bids
• Experience in supporting large-scale projects and complex change initiatives using appropriate methodologies
• Excellent NEC3 skills

Qualifications for the Senior Quantity Surveyor

• Educated to degree level (or equivalent) in Building Services Quantity Surveying or have a general degree in Quantity Surveying

We value difference and don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What We Offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Cavendish Nuclear
As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, provides a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions in clean energy, defence and civil new build and decommissioning projects. Together, we're innovating to make nuclear safer, faster and cost-effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. Your career with us could take you anywhere within Babcock International Group - from Canada, the USA to Japan. Work with us to create a safe and secure world, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

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