Senior Quantity Surveyor in Plymouth

Location: Plymouth

Salary: Hidden

Recruiter: Balfour Beatty

Job Hours: Full-time

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About the role

Shape a culture that feels like family, in an organisation that's the biggest of its kind. As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you'll join for our stability and pride in delivering inspiring infrastructure. You'll stay for the sheer scope, award-winning training and career development. From community-based projects to the UKs biggest civil engineering works, we've a presence in almost every market. If you've ambition and enthusiasm, this is your chance to grow with us.

Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our Regional Civils team to work in Plymouth.

A Senior Quantity Surveyor is an experienced QS who has a broad experience in the commercial management of civil engineering projects. The role will require an experienced, reliable member of the site team who will be able to carry out the necessary commercial duties to support construction operations, undertake client facing duties in a professional manner and to carry out the commercial reporting function back to the wider business.

They will have experience of managing and mentoring a small team of less experienced commercial staff.

What you'll be doing

As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you will have the following responsibilities:

Commercial management of projects from post-tender through to the agreement of final accounts, including cost budgeting and monitoring, submission of applications and managing cash flow, and the production, analysis and presentation of CVRs and Scheme Forecasts, all to the required business and contractual timescales.

Change Management including the drafting of contractual correspondence, administration and the subsequent valuation, agreement and Implementation of Compensation Events.

Subcontract management and administration, from procurement through to completion, including the collation of subcontract scopes from design, drafting enquiries, production and agreement of subcontracts, remeasurement, payments and the subsequent agreement of subcontract final accounts, all with the aim of achieving Main Contract objectives.

An accomplished working knowledge of the NEC4 suite of contracts.

Generally, to provide valued commercial support, input and analysis on project and construction issues, contributing to the overall project strategy and decision making process.

Who we're looking for

You will have the following qualities and experience:

BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying or experience equivalent

The following qualities/experience are desirable:

Communication

Teamwork / Role Model

Leadership

Achievement Focus (Achieving Results)

Business and Customer Awareness

Applies organisational aims & objectives

Identifies with the customer needs

Recognises opportunities & threats

Why work for us

You will be joining a skilled and competent regional Civils team involved in a number of schemes local to the South and West. We are committed to delivering a range of Civil Engineering projects of high quality in a professional and sustainable manner.