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About the role

Our team shape projects that connect communities and impact daily life for millions. We've an opportunity for a Senior Quantity Surveyor based at Peterborough to work on the @one Alliance.

The @one Alliance is a collaborative organisation of consultants and contractors working together to deliver more than half of Anglian Water's capital investment programme.

As a stakeholder within the Anglian Water @one Alliance, Balfour Beatty provide both design and construction services across the whole of Anglian Water's region, which is the largest by geographic area in the UK, stretching from the Humber to the Thames estuary and from Buckinghamshire to the East Coast. Work is mainly focussed on clean water Infrastructure (water mains), but also includes wastewater infrastructure and both water and wastewater non-infrastructure projects, such as treatment works and pumping stations.

Role Purpose:

• Accountable to the Project Commercial Manager (PCM) for the commercial and cost management of a project or programme of projects from inception through to close out.
• To be the commercial conscious to the integrated delivery team, providing commercial support to both the delivery management and on-site delivery teams.
• Responsibility to ensure that operations are carried out to control costs, maximising value, minimising future liabilities and maintaining the required standard of quality and safety.
• Working as part of an integrated delivery team providing commercial challenge and recommending actions to achieve and create an environment of outperformance.

What you'll be doing

As our Senior Quantity Surveyor, you'll have the following accountabilities;

• Assist the programme area estimating team to ensure robust estimates are provided that align to scope and make allowance for risks and opportunities including any necessary analysis, transfer of data to Alliance Procurement system and Cost Base.
• Subcontracts are properly prepared & reflect agreed scope. Subcontracts are properly managed in accordance with contract requirements including compliance with all responses to communications, payments, early warnings, compensation events, programme submissions etc., that all contract files are maintained & kept up to date.
• Work closely with the procurement team, Construction Manager and Project Delivery Manager (PDM) to develop & monitor procurement strategy.
• Work closely with the site Team attending site regularly to ensure they are aware of and can manage the allowances and outputs, provide robust challenge to achieve outperformance, communicate change control and escalate when necessary.
• Accurate live forecasting taking into account the programme and reporting in accordance with the respective work breakdown structure / cost breakdown structure.
• Actual costs are monitored and assessed against baseline, value of work done, solution cost progress, affordability challenges and final outturn calculations, reporting either weekly or otherwise as agreed with the PCM whilst observing Alliance governance.
• Provide reports on actual costs vs. estimate & identifying underlying reasons for any variance & resolutions, in particular highlight, challenge & resolve variance to latest plans.
• Work with the integrated delivery team to assist with project and programme risk mitigation plans are considered, put in place and administered.
• Ensure that the Alliance Contract is properly administered including timely issue of early warnings, Contractual notices, Owner Controlled Insurance Policy (OCIP) etc., in particular ensure that the Client, PCM, IPL and relevant PDM is kept informed of all relevant commercial issues including contract correspondence and preparing responses where appropriate. Working in collaboration with the Delivery Team to identify implement and monitor efficiency plans throughout the lifecycle of a project or programme of projects to mitigate any increases. Any withheld, disputed, inadmissible or disallowed costs are identified and reported to the PCM.
• Any inadmissible costs are not included within the project/programme of projects costs.
• Final accounts are prepared timely and accurately.

Who we're looking for

The following qualities/experience are required:

• Degree level (or equivalent) in an engineering/ management/cost discipline.
• Extensive experience in managing costs.
• Good Customer Service Skills.
• Good leadership skills.
• In depth knowledge of construction and safety.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Team Player.
• Able and comfortable to challenge professionally.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group has been a member of Anglian Water's @one Alliance since 2004, delivering several major water projects.

The Anglian Water @one Alliance will design and build around 800 schemes worth approximately £1.5 billion between April 2020 and March 2025, known as AMP7 - the current five-year investment period, working closely with Anglian Water operations teams and other key stakeholders.

The contract is for the entire five-year regulatory period, from 2020 to 2025, with extensions which could take it to 2030, making it one of the longest collaborations in the sector. It operates within an alliance of delivery partners set up by Anglian Water.