What you’ll be doing
as a Project Quantity Surveyor
1. Providing Commercial Assurance of Major Projects and Programmes Contracts.
2. Challenge, negotiating and agreeing Project Tenders on assigned Portfolio.
3. Ensuring that payments are made on time and in accordance with the Contract for your given portfolio of Projects.
4. Assessing the Quantum of Change and / or Extension of Time under the relevant Contracts on assigned portfolio.
5. Ensuring that appropriate processes are in place and monitored on your Projects to ensure that Contractual Compliance is maintained and advising stakeholders if any non-performance is identified and corrective actions implemented as necessary.
6. Supporting the management and optimisation of budgets and spend on portfolio of Projects
7. Attending monthly site meetings on site.
8. Data Collecting the relevant Contracts on assigned portfolio.
9. Auditing and agreeing on Project Accounts.
10. Supporting the Senior, Principal or Managing Quantity Surveyor with the resolution of Claims as necessary.
Base Location: Reading – Hybrid
Working Pattern or hours: 36 hours
What you should bring to the role
To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you’ll need is:
11. Have extensive experience of commercially managing a portfolio of projects both pre and post contract.
12. Hold a degree in Quantity Surveying of equivalent.
13. Have a desire to work towards gaining Chartered Status.
14. Be confident in negotiation and have some dispute resolution skills.
15. Understand water regulation (incl. OFWAT Price Review methodology)
16. Be excellent at building and maintaining relationships.
17. Have strong communication skills.
18. Mentors Junior team members.
19. Hold a full UK Driving license and have your own transport.
What’s in it for you?
20. Competitive salary from £54,000 to £64,000 per annum, depending on experience.
21. Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service. (plus bank holidays)
22. Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets
23. Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
24. Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.