Commercial Operations - Assistant Quantity Surveyor

You will support (and in some cases lead) commercial and contract management of schemes of value from £1m to more than £30m. The complex nature and diversity of the portfolio ensures the opportunity for you to develop new skills and capabilities, whether you are working towards gaining Chartered Surveyor status, or simply seeking to enhance your experience to date.

Operations is at the heart of keeping the strategic road network moving and ensuring our customers get the best possible experience when using our roads.

We address over 39,000 customer enquiries every month, plan and deliver all maintenance activities on the network, drive efficiencies and improvements across our systems and roads, and respond to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads that we manage. All to make sure National Highways customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys.

• Manage own portfolio of works under supervision from QS/ SQS.
• Maintain collaborative working relationship with supply chain contractors.
• Assisting in the management of site level change control including early warning and compensation event management and assessment, both to the Client and to the supply chain as necessary.
• Liaising with other departments to ensure that Schemes Tracker is up-to-date, data is accurate and reconciled against other sources.
• Supply Chain management including sending enquiry documentation, quotation assessment, work order award and instructions to supply chain where required. Supply Chain Payment assessment including all relevant documentation on a monthly basis.
• Monitor actual cost against targets.

• Intermediate level MS Excel (basic formula, pivot tables, formatting).
• Qualifications and/or professional membership check (if applicable)
• Good commercial awareness and understanding of commercial management.
• Fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable)
• You will have good written and verbal communication skills enabling you to engage effectively with a variety of stakeholders.
• DBS criminal record check
• 3 year employment history references
• Basic experience of contract administration, desirably using NEC forms of contract.
• Driving licence check (if applicable)
• To have either achieved or be working towards a degree/HND in Quantity Surveying or other relevant technical qualification and/or completion of a formally recognised graduate programme, apprenticeship or similar. Alternatively, you will be working towards a Chartered qualification within a relevant professional organisation, such as RICS, ICES, or equivalent.
• Social media and adverse journalism check

The role will be primarily based in our Wakefield office with a requirement to attend other NH Offices / Site when required. In all cases we have a flexible hybrid working approach, meaning the role will be a combination of office/agile home working with a general expectation of office working at least 2 days per week.

Our benefits package

A connected and sustainable working approach has been adopted across National Highways. For some roles, this means being able to work in a hybrid way spending up to 60% of time working from a remote location such as home.

• Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
• Flexible hours and an approach driven by connected and sustainable working which includes hybrid working
• Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines
• Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience
• Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities
• Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus
• Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme
• A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
• Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of up to 10%
• Community friendly - offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year
• Right to work check
• Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)