Senior Quantity Surveyor - Infrastructure

Turner & Townsend; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our UK Infrastructure team. You will work on a variety of client and internal infrastructure projects, focusing on cost management, procurement, and commercial governance.

A degree in a relevant subject and experience in contract management are essential, with NEC3 knowledge a distinct advantage. You will establish relationships with clients and teams, administer contracts, monitor costs, manage change, and drive best practices to

Qualifications

• Experience with contract administration and programme control.
• Familiarity with NEC3 or equivalent contract forms is a plus.
• Strong cost monitoring, forecasting and reporting capabilities.
• Knowledge of procurement, governance and change control processes.
• Experience in managing contract change and ensuring project governance.

Responsibilities

• Establish professional relationships with clients and project teams.
• Administer contracts in line with project objectives and policies.
• Provide accurate cost monitoring, forecasting and reporting to budget.
• Monitor cost variance and contract cashflow; ensure timely applications.
• Collaborate with client and contractor teams to manage deliverables, KPIs and value engineering.
• Manage contract change to keep projects within governance and best practice.
• Improve forecast and budget accuracy; provide commercial support to stakeholders.
• Negotiate and close final accounts; manage commissions as needed.

Skills

Contract management

Change management

Cost management

Procurement

Reporting

Governance

Line management

Commission management

Value engineering

Education

Degree in a relevant subject

Job description

Senior Quantity Surveyor - Infrastructure

• Full-time
• Department: Infrastructure

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.

We are currently seeking a number of personable, enthusiastic and energetic individuals to join our contract and cost management team to support our continuing growth and make the difference to both our business and to UK infrastructure.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:

You will be a Senior Quantity Surveyor within our UK Infrastructure business working on a variety of client and Turner & Townsend projects and initiatives.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Establishing friendly, professional and appropriate relationships with clients, colleagues and other parties involved in the projects and programmes we support.
• Administering a variety of contracts in accordance 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
• Commission management as needed

Previous experience or a sound and suitable understanding of the following will be a distinct advantage in applying for this role:

• Contract Management (NEC3 preferred)
• Change management
• Cost Management
• Change control
• Valuation
• Procurement
• Reporting
• Governance processing
• Best for project attitudes
• Line management
• Commission management

Ideally Degree qualified (or equivalent) in a relevant subject

• Ideally hold or be working towards an appropriate professional body membership or equivalent.

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

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.

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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