Managing Quantity Surveyor

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

Aviation- Our Aviation team works across a wide range of specialist civil, mechanical and electrical engineering works including major international airports, regional airports and RAF airfields.

Want to come and be a part of it?

What will you be doing?

• Manage high volume and low-value contracts.
• Develop and maintain suitable site cost reporting tools to support financial cost management, in line with the company costing function.
• Effective and professional engagement with client representatives.
• Work with the client to deliver the project and to achieve value for money whilst minimising commercial risk.
• Responsible for accurate cash flow profiling, income and project outturn in line with the company’s expectation. Including monthly CVR reporting
• Ensure detailed and accurate cost and value forecasting and cost allocation to deliver cost certainty in line with the company and client requirements.
• Support the estimating team in quantifying scope, costing works, identifying and quantifying risk and opportunity as well as providing contractual review during project tender stages. Monitor the register and any related documentation in accordance with the plan.
• Ultimate responsibility for all sub-contractor management. Ensure all sub-contractors and suppliers have submitted compliant quotations/inquiries/applications within the timescale required, and produce all documentation to select and secure services as well as monthly assessments, variations/CE claims and final account agreements through coaching of the Quantity Surveyor
• Lead the commercial team and all cost, value and contractual aspects of projects at the location to support operations with the objective of safe delivery. Minimise risk, maximize opportunity and avoid disputes.
• Manage a team and wider divisional resource interface, including involvement in the recruitment, development, and resourcing of the commercial function.
• Support and input to the divisional work winning and estimating function, and robust delivery of all pre-contract negotiation and settlement requirements
• Supporting the Divisional Senior Team with input into the strategy, business planning and operational requirements.
• Support and lead key negotiations with delivery partners and supply chain.
• Establish and ensure adherence to robust and consistent change control process to ensure that appropriate contract price adjustments are identified and agreed with the client.
• Actively increase knowledge of commercial issues and contract law, keeping up to date with legislations and current industry trends.
• Improve value for money through reduction in waste, better efficiency and introduction of innovations.
• Develop and maintain suitable site cost reporting tools to support financial cost management, in line with the company costing function.
• Liaison with the Commercial Manager and Quantity Surveyor(s) to ensure appropriate commercial cover is maintained.
• Assist the team and Project Manager, Engineers and Planners with regard to recovery of contract costs together with enhancing project profit by identifying efficiencies, variations, delays and claims.
• Assist with production of monthly project financial controls, CVR and forecast to complete reports for analysis staff and Commercial and Financial Staff.
• Develop sound and balanced negotiating skills.
• Attend when requested handover and progress meetings.
• Maintain documents and registers, for example variation registers.
• Undertake monthly reporting for both client and internal ensuring comprehensive variance analysis and positive cash collection
  
  

What You’ll Bring

• Strong team player promoting collaboration and openness, including excellent leadership skills
• Excellent negotiating interpersonal & communication skills
• Analytical skills
• Financial awareness
• Excellent IT skills, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.
• Contract costing knowledge
• Contract law NEC 3 & 4, various options
• Previous experience within a Managing Quantity Surveying role
• Contract/Tendering experience, capturing site records for variations and valuations;
• Supporting a project team
• Strong contractual knowledge and understanding of various forms of contract
• A degree in Quantity Surveying or equivalent.
• Cost / value reconciliation
• Full Clean UK Driving license
  
  

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and outside of work, some of which include;

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to Mental Health First Aiders
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s retail discounts
• Life Assurance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Enhanced maternity or paternity leave
• Reward and recognition scheme
• Online GP Service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
  
  

In addition, this role offers;

• Competitive basic salary
• Healthcare cash plan
• Pension scheme
• Bonus
• Payment uplifts
• Paid holidays
• Personal development training leading to Professional Qualifications
  
  

About Us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
  
  

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.

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