Assistant Quantity Surveyor

Job Title: Assistant Quantity Surveyor

Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF56829

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Assistant Quantity Surveyor at our Belfast site.

The role

As an Assistant Quantity Surveyor, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Join us, and support our expanding growth whilst driving projects to improve the agreed profitability and cash projectstions.

Day to day, you’ll develop core commercial, company and industry related skills and knowledge, whilst building the business function and client relationships. You'll also be expected to:

• Assist in commercially managing a contract (or contracts), providing a comprehensive and professional commercial service from contract award to completion.
• Prepare change control and applications for payment in a timely manner for review and submission to the client.
• Support, from commencement to completion, the provision of all commercial deliverables in line with contract requirements and timescales (including supply chain contracts).
• Work with commercial and contract lead to ensure all change control are submitted promptly in accordance with the contract(s).
• Conduct cost control, cash collection, change control, account administration, claims etc.
  
  
  

This role is full time OR part time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with three days in the office/onsite and two days working from home.

Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Essential experience of the Assistant Quantity Surveyor:

• Experience/knowledge within/of quantity surveying.
• Effective communicator (written and verbal) and experience in negotiation.
• Experience managing contracts – ideally NEC contracts.
• Understands Company and customer requirements.
  
  
  

Qualifications for the Assistant Quantity Surveyor:

• BSc in Quantity Surveyor or equivalent qualification.
  
  
  

What We Offer

• Generous 28 holiday day allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met.
• Opportunities to develop your career.
  
  
  

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [email protected] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 30/04/2024