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Role: Senior Quantity Surveyor
Location options: Guildford / Basingstoke / Maidstone (Flexible working available)
Duration: Permanent
Salary: £54,000 - £77,000 (DOE) + package
Industry sector: Highways
My client is expanding their commercial management team to support the businesses annual £1bn investment programme to maintain the Strategic Road Network. As part of this, they have exciting opportunities for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join their team.
You will lead a team of quantity surveyors and have responsibility for the end-to-end commercial and contract management of a complex programme of schemes, each of which are valued from £1m to more than £30m.
The nature and diversity of the programme ensures you will have opportunity to enhance your leadership and stakeholder management skills, together with your ability to successfully deploy your commercial skills, capabilities and experience in a complex delivery environment.
- Lead on the commercial and contract management of all schemes, ensuring that all works are managed in line with the contract and all contractual matters are responded within the contractual timescales.
- Providing mentoring, training and coaching in support of team and individual development. Support those pursuing professional qualifications (e.g. MRICS) as may be applicable.
- Oversee supply chain management including enquiry documentation, quotation assessment, works order award and instructions to supply chain where required. Ensure Supply Chain Payment assessment including all relevant documentation on a monthly basis.
- Ensure Scheme Cost and value reconciliation is performed to ensure correct cost capture has occurred across all contracts. Assist with preparation of scheme forecasts and associated risk profile.
- Management of site level change management including Early Warning and Compensation Event management and production, both to the Client and to the supply chain as necessary.?
About you
- Degree in Quantity Surveying or other relevant technical qualification. This requirement may be waived for those who have secured a relevant professional qualification (as below).
- A relevant professional qualification at Chartered/Member status e.g. MRICS, or equivalent.
- Demonstrable experience of contract administration, ideally in a portfolio/programme setting and desirably using NEC forms of contract.
- Demonstrable experience within a Quantity Surveying/ Commercial function with evidence of providing expert advice and support on complex commercial matters, preferably in a civil engineering/infrastructure environment for either the client or contractor.
- Demonstrable stakeholder management experience, with an ability to engage, prioritise and collaborate as an intelligent and effective customer
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