Senior Quantity Surveyor - Birmingham - 6 month contract - Outside IR35
Are you an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor looking for an exciting opportunity to work on high-value, high voltage substation projects for National Grid? We are seeking a commercially astute professional to join our dynamic team, overseeing cost management, contracts, and procurement for major infrastructure projects. This role offers the chance to play a key part in delivering critical energy infrastructure, ensuring projects are completed on time, within budget, and to the highest standards. If you have a strong background in NEC contracts, exceptional analytical skills, and a passion for driving value in complex engineering projects, we’d love to hear from you!
Technical responsibilities
This role will provide commercial support at a project level in all aspects of commercial control. You will work on both live projects and tender opportunities within the power sector. You will use your in-depth experience of the NEC3 and NEC4 forms of contract (Options A and C) to administer projects effectively including the development and implementation of subcontracts with the supply chain. This specific role requires Estimating experience.
Functional responsibilitiesÂ
- Conduct monthly internal reporting through the CVR and internal commercial management procedures.
- Conduct monthly reporting to the client in accordance with the contract and the client periodical reporting procedure
- Ensure cash flow is optimised through the development of activity schedules, the submission of monthly valuations and the control of subcontractor accounts
- Drive the recovery of outstanding monies and ensure all queries are fully resolved in a timely manner
- Identify commercial risks, opportunities, value engineering and change events
- Manage change events in accordance with the contract including early warnings, CE notification, CE quotation and through to CE implementation and inclusion into the new cost and programme baselines.
- Produce cost estimates and subcontract enquiries for both tender proposals and compensation events.
- Ensure the project delivery teams adhere to risk management procedures and financial compliance
- Record the commercial KPI data at project level and minimise any potential negative effect on your projects
- Maintain the projects adherence to payment timescales
- Prepare and manage sub-contracts throughout the project, through to Final Account agreement.
- Work closely with the project delivery teams to enforce the business drivers and outcomes for your projects
- Maximise profitability having regard to client and subcontractor relations, third party incomers and the company’s strategic objectives regarding client relations and the risk/reward philosophy
- A commercially and contractually astute individual that takes ownership of performance
- Assistance with the management, preparation and submission of tender enquires.
- Undertake costing activities, utilizing a sound working knowledge of tender process
- Interact and communicate effectively with clients and colleagues to achieve project objectives
- Able to manage multiple projects and conflicting deadlines
- Able to work autonomously and/or as part of a project team
- Identifying new skills and competencies required to meet business needs and actively supporting development and recruitment of talent
- Support the continued development of more junior team personnel providing commercial guidance and establishing training needs
Qualifications
Requirements:
- 3 years’ relevant experience as a Quantity Surveyor
- BSc or HND (or equivalent) in Quantity Surveying or other equivalent commercially related subject
- Estimating experience
- Experience within the Power Transmission & Distribution sector preferred
- Awareness and experience of construction methods, technology, standard forms of measurement and the NEC 3 and NEC4 forms of contract (Options A & C)
- Excellent computer literacy with experience MS office suite of programmes.
- Ability to read, understand, interpret and analyse a project programme
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