Description
cost forecasting
risk management
contract administration
subcontractor management
cash flow
commercial meetings
This role will be overseeing a major infrastructure in the heart of Dublin, valued in excess of €140million
Managing Quantity Surveyor - Permanent Opportunity
The Managing Quantity Surveyor will be responsible for:
- Use of company software to ensure all reporting, forecasting, subcontractor payments and any contract related documentation is effectively managed on the requisite online software.
- Adapting language or terminology to the characteristics and needs of the audience.
- Assisting the project QS team with sub-contractor accounts when issues arise
- Commercial strategy on the projects – keeping the QS team aligned on the margin strategy
- Reviewing the CVR information each month and relaying to the Commercial Manager and Contracts Director, challenging where necessary.
- 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.
- Carrying out delay analysis including the preparation of narratives and loss and expense to support claim submissions or assessment of compensation events including extensions of time and recovery of delay costs.
- Managing the QS team on a project or multiple projects and being the key link between the Commercial Manager and the project QS team
- Reviewing proposed amendments to subcontracts/design appointments and agreeing same.
- Teamwork: Developing cooperation and collaborative work efforts to achieve common goals, obtaining the input of others’ and displaying willingness to learn from others.
- Ensuring the variation / compensation event mechanism is correctly and timeously followed to ensure the commercial protection of the business.
- Have involvement in the process of procurement of subcontract packages.
- Managing the forecasting of cash flow / budget compilation.
- 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.
- Managing and administering the risk management procedures of the NEC4 suite of contracts.
- Actively seeking and managing the potential recovery routes when losses occur on projects and mitigating risk
- Forming trusting relationships with key supply chain management
- Drafting key project notices and responding to supply chain notices
- Performing financial due diligence on supply chain
- 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.
Requirements
nec4
mrics
excel
cost management
mqs
negotiation
Good ability to manage and deal with people
The successful candidate will have experience in the administration of NEC4 Option C contracts.
Reporting to the Commercial Manager, this position requires an individual who has held a lead in commercial teams on large Civil Engineering Schemes or several smaller construction projects. The ideal candidate will have come from a main contracting background and will have had minimum 2 years relevant experience in a similar position as an MQS.
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- Communication Skills: Expressing and presenting thoughts and complex ideas clearly and succinctly.
- Good ability to manage and deal with people
- 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.
- Demonstrate previous experience in a MQS role at Senior/Managerial level
- IT Skills: Ability to competently use software (e.g. MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, cost management systems, contract management systems, etc).
- 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.
- Possess a good technical knowledge
- Safety Awareness: Possessing general knowledge of safety procedures and abiding by the basic personal safety rules.
- Professional qualification (e.g. MRICS/MSCSI)
- Contract knowledge: Understanding of specific contracts and ability to take appropriate action.
- Dispute avoidance and dispute resolution (training can be provided)
- 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.
Benefits
As a Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role. If you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme, please contact Louise Hunter, Resourcing Manager, at:
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