Managing Quantity Surveyor (Welsh Water, North or South Wales)

Job Requisition Number 6286

Work Type Permanent

Job Function Cost Management

Salary Range

£54,793.00 -£67,122.00

• annual salary uplift
• annual cost of living increase
• annual variable pay reward
  
  

Base

North or South Wales (open to applicants across all site base locations)

Hybrid working (2 days/week in office)

Closing date

23:59 on 16/12/2024

Good to know

For an informal discussion about this role, please contact: [email protected]

What you’ll be responsible for

• Inspiring all employees working within your team through the provision of a stimulating and challenging environment that recognises achievements, promotes effective communications, and develops individuals to achieve their maximum level of performance.
• Managing your teams’ resources effectively to ensure tasks are completed to a high standard and within required timescales as set out by the Commercial Calendar and the Business Governance requirements. Responsible for the provision of governance and assurance across a programme of works with a capex of £15m-£60m per annum.
• Providing support and advice to a Delivery Manager and team of project managers and project engineers on all aspects of commercial contract management within Frameworks.
• Providing support and advice to a team of Quantity Surveyors (Welsh Water staff and Consultants) on all aspects of the cost management function and the Capital Cost Management Procedures – including the Management Handbook and the Alliance Partner Processes
• Preparing all aspects of works orders, ensuring all Welsh Water project approval processes are followed.
• Overseeing the Validation and agreement of contract values and target costs with framework contractors.
• Identifying, analysing and developing response to commercial project risks, ensuring risks are understood, valued and correctly allocated.
• Overseeing the completion of monthly valuations of completed work and recommendations for payment across in house and Partner delivered schemes in your area.
• Building and maintaining relationships with the Delivery Team, Finance, SAP teams, Project Managers and Contractors.
• Providing advice on contractual claims, early warning notices and compensation events.
• Checking and approving final accounts at contractor and project levels prior ton submission to the Commercial Manager.
• Undertaking appropriate ‘lessons learnt’ analysis upon project completion in order to ensure that there is a continuous improvement process applied.
• Assisting with commercial / contractual dispute resolution between third parties and Welsh Water.
• Providing clear, visible, management to the team – and ensuring effective management of people through HR processes and procedures
  
  

Who you’ll work with

Internal

• Delivery Manager
• All levels of management within Welsh Water
• Capital Delivery Teams
• Operations
• Asset Strategy
• Finance
• Procurement
• Welsh Water Leadership Team
  
  

External

• Regulators, Local Authorities, CCW, EA
• Capital Delivery Partners
• Framework contractors, consultants and equipment suppliers
  
  

Qualifications

About you

Qualified to degree level (any study pathway considered) and working towards chartered status

Experience

Ideally 3 years+ cost management experience in the water industry demonstrating an excellent track record in the commercial delivery of projects ranging from £25k to £20m

Experience working as a Senior Quantity Surveyor being responsible for the commercial aspect of large complex projects

Extensive experience in administering commercial agreements, frameworks contracts and programmes

Extensive Experience Of NEC And Other Contract Administration

Knowledge & Skills

Enthusiastic about putting our customers first every day

Understanding of Health and Safety Regulations

A wide range of project and people management skills

Excellent analytical and data interrogation skills with an ability to extract relevant information and present it in a logical and structured manner

Excellent communicator and team player who understands the importance of ownership and accountability

Ability to work collaboratively in a multi-disciplined engineering delivery team environment

The ability to work to tight regulatory and project timelines

Benefits

As well as a market competitive salary, 33 days annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays), we offer a range of employee benefits and rewards including:

• Variable pay schemes (your salary band will remain the same, but performance depending, you could receive an incremental within-band increase and a yearly incentive)
• Option to buy additional annual leave up to 5 days per year
• Enhanced employer pension contributions – Up to 11% employer contributions
• Free Mortgage Brokering Services
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Progression opportunities, including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes
• Gym and fitness discounts as well as high street shopping
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discount off all Welsh Water visitor attraction centres and gift shops
• Car-leasing scheme and free on-site parking at all sites
• Health CashBack scheme and access to an online GP service
• An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family
• Many more can be found here!
  
  

Whilst also working for a not-for profit company that truly cares about earning the trust of customers everyday, and about looking after our beautiful environment.

Who we are

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water keep 3 million people healthy each day with safe, reliable water, and take away wastewater to clean, before returning it safely to our beautiful rivers and seas.

To be able to deliver high quality, essential services which help to protect the health of our customers, colleagues and our environment, we need the right people to deliver on our vision. This is achieved by living our core values and demonstrating the core behaviours that underpin them. The security of our people, assets and information is key to us, so we are looking for people who understand and comply with the company’s required security objectives.

We know that the most successful teams are the most diverse teams. Equality, diversity and inclusion provide the very foundation to our culture at Welsh Water. We want every individual to feel confident, proud and able to bring their whole selves to work.

To ensure an improved representation in our workforce, applications are particularly welcome from minority groups including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people, Females, LGBT+, Non-binary and people with disabilities. Together we continue to build a workplace that not only celebrates the diverse voices of our colleagues but also represents each customer we serve.

In essence, ours is a company based on trust, openness, respect, commitment and honesty. A company that our colleagues are proud to work for.

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Dŵr Cymru Cyf, a limited company registered in Wales No. 2366777. Registered office: Linea, Fortran Road, St. Mellons, Cardiff CF3 0LT

Dŵr Cymru Cyf 2019.