Why choose us?
Choosing to work for us means choosing to make a difference. We are changing how businesses and consumers use energy for the better, helping achieve a greener, sustainable, and more affordable energy system for everyone. Through our range of innovative energy solutions, we are delivering the future of smart energy – working closely with private and public sector partners we are playing a critical role in transforming and decarbonising the UK economy by 2050.
What’s in it for you?
* 25 personal holiday days per year (with additional 8 public holidays) increasing to 30 personal days after 5 years of service (includes options to buy and sell)
* Hybrid working options.
* Automatic enrolment into the Employee Participation Plan.
* Enhanced Maternity leave. Paternity and Adoption leave.
* 24/7 free and confidential employee assistance service.
* Medicash health plan offers a wide variety of benefits from cashback on everyday healthcare treatments like optical, dental and physio treatments. Discounted gym memberships and free 24/7 online GP.
* Life Insurance (4 x annual salary)
* Pension matching scheme (up to 5% of salary)
* Developing our people is important to us – we support and encourage development by offering internal and external accredited courses, secondments and study support.
What’s the role?
The Boundary Box Quantity Surveyor is responsible for reviewing, validating, and managing aborted smart meter installation jobs that may require excavation, enabling works, boundary box replacements, or Streetworks activities. The role sits between Commercial, Operations, Planning, and Streetworks, ensuring all aborted jobs are correctly evidenced, commercially validated, and managed in line with the NEC4 TSC contract, Scope requirements, and operational processes. The role helps reduce unnecessary costs, prevent unsupported dig claims, improve data quality, and provide audit‑ready commercial assurance. This role supports the operational, reporting, defect management, deployment, and streetworks obligations required under the NEC4 TSC smart metering contract environment. This role is offered on a permanent contract, with working hours set at Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 5:00pm, 40 hours per week.
Key Responsibilities:
* Review and validate aborted or failed installation jobs.
* Assess photos, surveys, operative notes, and asset data.
* Confirm whether dig works, boundary box replacements, or enabling works are genuinely required.
* Ensure abort reasons are accurately classified and evidenced.
* Ensure all activities comply with NEC4 TSC contract requirements and Scope obligations.
* Support Commercial teams with payment validation, compensation event reviews, Pay Less support, and dispute defence.
* Identify trends that may indicate operational, contractual, or data quality issues.
* Produce dashboards and reporting on aborted jobs, dig volumes, defect trends, excavation requirements, and financial exposure.
* Analyse repeat failures, operational inefficiencies, and high‑risk locations.
* Manage incidents and defects through operational systems such as MWorks, Power BI, Freshdesk, or equivalent platforms.
* Track follow‑on actions, permits, excavation requirements, and remediation activities.
* Work closely with Commercial, Operations, Streetworks, Finance, and Programme teams.
* Act as the link between operational field data and commercial decision‑making.
To be considered for this role we would love you to have:
* Experience in utilities, infrastructure, smart metering, or operational data analysis.
* Experience working within NEC contracts or regulated environments desirable.
* Experience managing operational and commercial datasets.
* Strong Power BI and reporting capability.
* Advanced Excel and Microsoft Office skills.
* Able to challenge unsupported operational claims.
* Strong analytical and commercial judgement.
* Experience with operational insight and continuous improvement reporting.
* Validated aborted jobs register.
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