Senior Quantity Surveyor - Didcot, Oxfordshire

Description

• Use of company software to ensure all reporting, forecasting, subcontractor payments and any contract related documentation is effectively managed on the requisite online software.
• Preparing and submitting monthly application for payments including forecast defined cost to complete and compliance with any contract administration such as KPI requirements
• Adapting language or terminology to the characteristics and needs of the audience.
• Ensuring the variation / compensation event mechanism is correctly and timeously followed to ensure the commercial protection of the business
• The day to day managing of staff resources to ensure the projects costs are known and managed effectively
• Liaising with procurement to set and agree allowances for the project.
• Attending progress / commercial meetings and representing the company in a commercial capacity.
• Client Focus: Establishing a positive relationship with clients/ customers, anticipating their needs and responding quickly to requests to develop better ways to deliver value to them.
• Managing Change and Innovation: Welcoming new ideas and change to improve performance.
• Review of main contract and subcontract terms and conditions, inclusive of stepping down conditions from main contract to subcontract.
• Administration of the main contract and subcontracts, including compilation of contractual correspondence in relation to delays and associated loss and expense.
• Carrying out delay analysis including the preparation of narratives and loss and expense to support claim submissions.
• Teamwork: Developing cooperation and collaborative work efforts to achieve common goals, obtaining the input of others’ and displaying willingness to learn from others.
• Handling subcontract issues as they arise.
• Cost Control: Calling upon a wide range of skills to deliver results. Ensuring targets are achievable and checking on progress. Controlling critical elements of the process while forecasting ahead.
• The detailed and transparent process of reporting on costs to date and forecasting cost to completion.
• Forecasting of cash flow / budget compilation.
• Procurement of subcontract packages including compilation of tender documentation.
• Regular liaison and interface with the Employers team for the purposes of progressing the commercial aspects of the project.
• Problem Solving and Decision Making: Considering relevant information and insights in order to make choices. Evaluating multiple factors in the identification of solutions and making sound and timely decisions.
• Establishing the project budget including the allocation of cost codes to ensure detailed and accurate cost reporting is achieved.

Requirements

• Communication Skills: Expressing and presenting thoughts and complex ideas clearly and succinctly.
• Experience of working across a variety of heavy Civils sectors such as Highways/Rail/Marine projects.
• IT Skills: Ability to use software but does not maximise use.
• Negotiation Skills: Presenting viewpoint with confidence and clarity. Soundly structured case pros and cons put forward with supporting evidence. Ability to get through to core issues. Presenting case in a persuasive manner and understanding the wider implications.
• Achieving Goals: Demonstrating energy and enthusiasm in their work, acting with decisiveness and determination to complete tasks. Showing confidence and a positive attitude toward difficulties.
• Professional qualification (e.g. MRICS/MCICES)
• Flexibility and Reliability: Working effectively with different people and/or teams in a variety of situations. Actively seeking out and carefully considering the merits of new approaches. Delivering complex and articulated outputs within prescribed time, cost and quality standards, taking personal responsibility of all activities.
• Safety Awareness: Possessing general knowledge of safety procedures and abiding by the basic personal safety rules.
• Contract knowledge: Understanding of specific contracts and ability to take appropriate action.
• Demonstrate previous experience in a Commercial/QS role at a Senior level
• Third level qualification (degree or similar)

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance