Lead Quantity Surveyor, Capital Projects Delivery

National Grid plc; City of Syracuse (NY); On-site; USD 142,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Generous pension plan

Private medical insurance for self and

Career path opportunities

Job summary

National Grid is seeking a Quantity Surveyor Manager for the NY Electric Major Projects department, with location options Albany, Syracuse, or Buffalo. You will lead a team of surveyors to ensure value for project costs and contract delivery, while advising on pricing and contract changes within field practices.

You will manage costs, benchmarks, and cost databases, and coordinate with program teams to deliver projects safely on time, within budget, and to specification.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education or experience in estimating, planning, construction management, project management, engineering, or similar technical fields required.
• At least 8 years of experience in utilities or construction industries required.
• Technical understanding of utility construction work being planned and managed.
• Unionized contract management in utility or construction preferred.
• Ability to be detail-oriented with excellent organizational and administrative skills.
• Microsoft Office and strong systems usage experience (SAP, PowerBI).

Responsibilities

• Lead and embed positive safety culture and process safety within team to improve collective safety performance ensuring adherence to company policy, aims and objectives.
• Maintain accountability for first level assurance across all team activities and responsibilities.
• Develop and share best practice in SHESQ and Project Delivery.
• Lead team to manage and deliver program of projects safely to time, cost and specification within governance requirements including project initiation documents, project execution plans and management of plans, schedule, National Grid resources, budgets, quality and risks.
• Challenge project teams to ensure project scope, designs and delivery solutions are innovative, efficient, fit for purpose and prevent creep.
• Provide accurate and timely monthly project status reports covering SHE performance, milestone progress, risk management, current and forecast financial performance to ensure robust tracking and reporting against the long-term capital plan.
• Ensure that Project Engineers are robustly positioned commercially on scheme delivery, and coordinate and prioritize commercial / contractual support systems in place.
• For Major Infrastructure Schemes, agree and implement a community consultation plan for the project with the SPM and local authorities. Ensure a robust response management system is in place for the recording of the receipt and response to all statutory and public feedback.

Skills

Estimating

Planning

Construction management

Project management

Engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Estimating/Planning/Construction Management/Engineering

Tools

SAP

PowerBI

Job description

National Grid is seeking a Quantity Surveyor Manager for the NY Electric Major Projects department, with location options Albany, Syracuse, or Buffalo. You will lead a team of surveyors to ensure value for project costs and contract delivery, while advising on pricing and contract changes within field practices.

You will manage costs, benchmarks, and cost databases, and coordinate with program teams to deliver projects safely on time, within budget, and to specification.