Senior Quantity Surveyor (Sizewell C)

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Senior Quantity Surveyor

Civil Works Alliance

Sizewell C

Permanent

40 hours per week

A Senior Quantity Surveyor is an experienced QS who has a track record in managing all costs relating to building and civil engineering projects, from the initial calculations to the final figures. They seek to minimise the costs of a project and enhance value for money, while still achieving the required standards and quality. Typically, they will be a Chartered Member of the RICS, ICES or CIOB. They will have experience of managing a small team of less experienced commercial staff as well as mentoring others on their journey to becoming professionally qualified.

Principal Accountabilities :

• Has a good knowledge of and adheres to the Company's GMCEs, BMS and other governance. Including SZC systems, processes, and governance

• Orders information and systematically checks data

• Maximises digital opportunities

• Prepares Activity Schedules, Resource Schedules & analyses tender documents

• Critically appraises, estimates, and negotiates the above with 3rd parties

• Planning

• Reviews complex contract programmes such as Time-Location,

• Assists with the preparation of delay and disruption programmes

• Project Management

• Monitors subcontract activities, measure and respond appropriately

• Analyses the commercial progress and report to senior project staff

• Manages commercial aspects with Customer and Stakeholders for their area of responsibility

• Procurement

• Undertakes constructability analyses using construction programmes

• Prepares procurement programme and helps develop the strategy

• Commercial Management

• Analyses rates & prices, agreement of variations and or compensation events as required

• Undertakes customer and stakeholder management for their area of responsibility

• Prepares, submits and negotiates claims when required

• Prepares Internal reports, commercial progress and financial reconciliation

• Development, Recruitment and Retention

• Maintains own Personal Development Plan

• Manages HR/People aspects for direct and indirect reports (PDRs etc)

• Actively supports the development of others incl professional mentoring

• Produces plans for team to achieve goals / aspirations

• Supports recruitment of lower grades

Qualifications

Essential :

• BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying or experience equivalent

• Membership of RICS, ICES or CIOB (or working towards)

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 & threatsProven track record in managing and leading large teams

• Demonstrable experience of innovation, in all fields (Health and Safety, Operational Delivery etc)

• Experience in mentoring, and providing stretch and challenge for team members and ensuring clearly defined development plans are in place

• Strong leadership and management skills, including completion of formal qualification (e.g., ILM)

• Wide ranging independent judgement evident

• Has achieved professional accreditation and undertakes extra-curricular activities to advance the profession (e.g., RICS, CMI)

Experience

Competent :

- Commercial Management

- Negotiation

- Legal & contracting

- Risk & opportunity management

- Project procurement strategy

- Civil engineering technical solutions

- Related Capabilities : Project Management, HSE, DfMA, Digital engineering, Client & stakeholder management, People management.

Knowledge & Skills :

• Cascades information in a positive way to staff at all levels

• Ability to resolve conflict and build respect between multi-disciplinary teams

• Encourages inter-team collaboration as well as with off-site functions

• Strong communication and excellent interpersonal and influencing skills

• Sets challenging goals for self and others to achieve

• Takes difficult decisions as necessary

• Quality of Service Provision

• Understand economic factors that affects the construction industry

• To manage the feedback of commercial data to Planning and Estimating

• The ability to review tenders and cost data

• To manage the preparation of Target Cost for a Project

• To co-ordinate the commercial team to ensure programme issues are identified and actioned

• To manage the preparation and review of Earned Value Management

• Manage the preparation of the monthly operating statement and associated commercial reports

• To be able to report and explain the commercial progress to senior teams

• To manage the feedback of commercial data to Planning, Estimating, Marketing and Sales

• Formulation of management plans for resource procurement

• Understanding of disputes resolution including options, structure as well as knowledge of the SCL Protocol

• chain management and procurement techniques, estimating and surveying functions

• Management and reporting of Commercial Risk and Opportunity

• Management of disallowed cost

• Experienced in the recruitment and development of talent within the business

• Ability to provide feedback on team members strengths and weaknesses and support performance management

• Determining project commercial staff requirements

• Able to make connection between creative ideas and innovative outcomes and implement using a wide range of improvement techniques

• Managing risks and opportunities at a Project level and updating senior teams

• Can see the big picture and can spot the point at which to make a trade off

• Is aware of political issues, and seeks win-win situations, whilst maintaining effective relationships

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.