Senior Quantity Surveyor – MEP / Building Services – Construction – Clevedon – South West / South Wales projects.
What Makes it Great?
-Opportunity to play a key role in the MEP division.
-Stable company with growing workload.
-Long term local South West / South Wales regional projects.
Company:
Opportunity to join one of the UK's leading tier 1 building contractors, with an in-house Mechanical and Electrical engineering division.
Role:
Supporting the Commercial Team to provide regular contractual and financial information to monitor the achievement of project objectives, to assist with the vetting of sub-contract documents prior to execution and generally to maximise the financial return in respect of each project, as described herein.
Duties:
Financial
- Vetting and negotiation in connection with the proposed sub-contract documentation to achieve the best deal for the company;
- Production and submission of cash flow forecast (Internal/External);
- Assist the project contract engineer in the preparation of the sub-sub-contractor enquiry document, collate and prepare sub-sub-contract documents and agree with sub-sub-contractor;
- Provide advice on suppliers/sub-sub-contractors quotations;
- Produce monthly WIP’s reports to agreed deadlines;
- Obtain written agreement on suppliers/sub-sub-contractors final accounts, in conjunction with the project contracts engineer;
- Collate and prepare in agreed format, variation measurement details for submission to the Main Contractor/P.Q.S;
- Preparation of final account including agreement of variation account;
- Analysis of the sub-contract tender to prepare format for valuation applications.
Internal Communication
- Co-ordinate fully with all other disciplines/departments;
- Attend project support meetings as and when required;
- Liaise closely with the site project team on all project issues;
- Communicate with Regional Managers on potential problem areas;
- Prepare schedule of attendance’s to be provided by the Main Contractor and circulate for internal and external domestic use.
External Communication
- Regular communication is required with main Contractors, suppliers and sub-contractors;
- Attend meetings with the above as and when required;
- Prepare, maximise and agree Interim valuation applications.
Planning and Control
- Monitor performance against project cost/value making recommendations and implementing agreed action;
- Assist in the monitoring of project progress relative to agreed sub-contract programme and if necessary issue of appropriate ‘formal’ notices. Preparation of contractual claims under the main contract and domestic sub-sub-contracts.
Administration
- Administer and maintain Surveying internal filing system;
- Production and receipt of project correspondence;
- Follow and maintain the company’s procedure on quality assurance.
Drawings/Specification
- Assess in conjunction with engineering, drawings produced in order to assist in the identification of variations.
Problem Solving
- Define, evaluate, discuss, decide, produce action plans for and implement resolutions to any problems that may arise during work.
Health and Safety
- Implement the company’s policy on Health and Safety in conjunction with the H&S Department.
Development/Improvement
- Be flexible and adaptable to change and experimentation;
- Encourage new ideas, i.e. organisational and systems developments;
- Adapt and develop to new specialised areas of work, when necessary.
Self Development
- Encourage opportunities for self-development, i.e. Training courses, college courses, promotional interests, etc.
Authority
Financial
- Examination and payment of sub-sub-contractor accounts including settlement of variation accounts, and issue of sub-contract notices as required.
Operational
- To develop and maintain the ‘Key Responsibilities’/systems and procedures;
- Identify areas of risk and opportunity;
- Undertake other duties as may be reasonably requested by the Regional Manager;
- Comply with all latest company policies and internal control procedures.
Requirements:
To be considered for this Quantity Surveyor role you must meet the following criteria:
- Comprehensive and proven experience in MEP industry.
- Extensive experience of working on live projects and concluding final accounts.
- Experience of procuring major works sub contracts.
- Experience in managing, mentoring and developing staff.
- Commercially managing the MEP element of building projects.
- Exposure to resolving disputes.
- Technical knowledge of the construction industry (MEP).
- Sound knowledge of all industry standard forms of contract.
- Extensive experience of commercial processes associated with live projects.
- Understanding risk within the construction process.
- Understanding of the relevance of the construction programme / critical path.
- Operating both JCT and NEC contracts, including Target Cost projects.
- Appreciation of NEDO price indices and formula.
Qualifications and Specialist Training
- Degree (or equivalent) in appropriate discipline Quantity Surveying and/or Commercial Management, or from appropriate MEP trade and converted to a QS.
- Professional Qualification (desirable)
- Appropriate CSCS Card.
Remuneration:
-£50k - £70k basic (dependent on experience)
-Car Allowance
-Pension (up to 8%)
To be considered for this vacancy or to find out more information please apply now.
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