Senior Quantity Surveyor - Birmingham - 6 month contract - Outside IR35

Are you an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor looking for an exciting opportunity to work on high-value, high voltage substation projects for National Grid? We are seeking a commercially astute professional to join our dynamic team, overseeing cost management, contracts, and procurement for major infrastructure projects. This role offers the chance to play a key part in delivering critical energy infrastructure, ensuring projects are completed on time, within budget, and to the highest standards. If you have a strong background in NEC contracts, exceptional analytical skills, and a passion for driving value in complex engineering projects, we’d love to hear from you!

Technical responsibilities

This role will provide commercial support at a project level in all aspects of commercial control. You will work on both live projects and tender opportunities within the power sector. You will use your in-depth experience of the NEC3 and NEC4 forms of contract (Options A and C) to administer projects effectively including the development and implementation of subcontracts with the supply chain. This specific role requires Estimating experience.

Functional responsibilities 

• Conduct monthly internal reporting through the CVR and internal commercial management procedures.
• Conduct monthly reporting to the client in accordance with the contract and the client periodical reporting procedure
• Ensure cash flow is optimised through the development of activity schedules, the submission of monthly valuations and the control of subcontractor accounts
• Drive the recovery of outstanding monies and ensure all queries are fully resolved in a timely manner
• Identify commercial risks, opportunities, value engineering and change events
• Manage change events in accordance with the contract including early warnings, CE notification, CE quotation and through to CE implementation and inclusion into the new cost and programme baselines.
• Produce cost estimates and subcontract enquiries for both tender proposals and compensation events.
• Ensure the project delivery teams adhere to risk management procedures and financial compliance
• Record the commercial KPI data at project level and minimise any potential negative effect on your projects
• Maintain the projects adherence to payment timescales
• Prepare and manage sub-contracts throughout the project, through to Final Account agreement.
• Work closely with the project delivery teams to enforce the business drivers and outcomes for your projects
• Maximise profitability having regard to client and subcontractor relations, third party incomers and the company’s strategic objectives regarding client relations and the risk/reward philosophy
• A commercially and contractually astute individual that takes ownership of performance
• Assistance with the management, preparation and submission of tender enquires.
• Undertake costing activities, utilizing a sound working knowledge of tender process
• Interact and communicate effectively with clients and colleagues to achieve project objectives
• Able to manage multiple projects and conflicting deadlines
• Able to work autonomously and/or as part of a project team
• Identifying new skills and competencies required to meet business needs and actively supporting development and recruitment of talent
• Support the continued development of more junior team personnel providing commercial guidance and establishing training needs

Qualifications

Requirements:

• 3 years’ relevant experience as a Quantity Surveyor
• BSc or HND (or equivalent) in Quantity Surveying or other equivalent commercially related subject
• Estimating experience
• Experience within the Power Transmission & Distribution sector preferred
• Awareness and experience of construction methods, technology, standard forms of measurement and the NEC 3 and NEC4 forms of contract (Options A & C)
• Excellent computer literacy with experience MS office suite of programmes.
• Ability to read, understand, interpret and analyse a project programme

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