Quantity Surveyor

78889 - Quantity Surveyor

This Quantity Surveyor will report to the Area Commercial Manager and will work within UKPN Services – Commercial based in our Chatham office. You will be a permanent employee.

You will attract a salary of £61,723 and a bonus of.3%. This role can also offer blended working after probationary period (6 months) - 3 days in the office and 2 remote

Close Date:.09/05/2024

We also provide the following additional benefits

• 25 days Annual Leave plus bank holidays
• Personal Pension Plan – Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%)
• Tenancy Loan Deposit scheme
• Tax efficient benefits: cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Occupational Health support
• Switched On – scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers products.
• Discounted access to sports and social clubs
• Employee Assistance Programme.

Job Purpose

To assist other Quantity Surveyors, Area Commercial Manager and Lead Commercial Manager in providing professional quantity surveying support to the UKPN Services business across specified long-term contracts and competitively tendered client projects.

To manage (depending on size and complexity) commercial matters for those contracts and projects with regards to contract set-up, management, pricing, service delivery, scope change and dispute resolution to ensure contract requirements are compliant with standards and co-ordinated to maximise profit delivery.

To support a commercial project team (variously comprising Project Quantity Surveyors, Assistant QS and Commercial Administrators) in the management clients and of all sub-contractors and supplier contracts.

Main Responsibilities:

• To be commercial lead, or for larger projects to provide support, on a portfolio of nominated contracts and client construction projects
• To comply with all UKPN guidelines, business objectives and procedures, reporting areas of non-conformance to the Area Commercial Manager.
• Ensure that the project delivery team have acted in accordance with the Contracts.
• Liaise with all external and company partners to enable the projects to progress without delay, ensuring that all reasonable requests are met promptly.
• Help prepare activity schedules and the presentation of tender documentation, attending interviews and carrying out full tender analysis and comparisons through to preparing the recommendation report.
• Interface with the Client Delivery Manager, Senior Project Managers, Project Managers, other commercial staff and P6 Planners to deliver advice and support to ensure that the projects are managed following the contract and meeting reporting deadlines.
• Manage a programme of current workload, in order that all contracts receive the relevant allocation of resource to commercially manage them.
• Demonstrate belief and understanding to the team and create confidence even when faced with setbacks. Make decisions and justify them when challenged.
• Produce quality reports in a prompt and legible manner and follow instructions, questioning the decisions and directions of others.
• Assess contractor applications and EWN's and CE's, making recommendations to, raising payment certificates for and preparing general correspondence on behalf of the Project Managers to ensure that only legitimate monies are certified.
• Liaise with the Project Managers to update the risk registers, and add in new risks arising from the aforementioned EWN's and CE's.
• Identify principal risks and opportunities, raise, address and resolve problems at a project level and support the project delivery team, maintains a schedule of potential financial implications for projects.
• To advise others regarding the application and interpretation of the different forms of contract in use within UKPN, predominantly being NEC3 and NEC4.
• Manage and report change control procedures within each specific contract and ensuring that they are adhered to by all parties.
• Become involved in the relevant Annual rate reviews.
• Review Principal / Main Contractors Subcontracts and identify where clauses are in breach of Partner policies, making recommendations to achieve compliance.
• Work with the Senior Project Managers, Project Managers, other commercial staff and the Commercial Manager to resolve any contract issues, and in the event of a dispute arising to help prepare the required documentation to justify and reinforce our contractual position.
• Consider alternative strategies for dispute resolution of moderate complexity and prepare written arguments from a claimant or defendant perspective, making recommendations to key UKPN partners on the preferred option.

Dimensions:

• Turnover - up to £10 million per year project and contract revenues
• No direct reports

Qualifications:

• Quantity surveying experience and a track record in managing varied contracts from a quantity surveying perspective.
• Operate with some degree of autonomy
• Experience of commercial activity in a competitive, client-led construction project management environment.
• Preferably formally qualified in quantity surveying or other relevant business discipline.
• A record of success with experience in similar roles.
• Professional qualification or membership of the RICS, CIOB, ICES or other relevant Chartered Institute would be an additional advantage.
• Experienced in using Word, Excel, PowerPoint to an intermediate level, and some knowledge of SAP and Primavera P6.
• Make informed, balanced decisions and report findings back to Clients and team members.
• Develop relationships with both service providers and company partners .
• Team working skills.
• Institution of Occupational Safety & Health (IOSH) Certificate would be advantageous, although specific Health & Safety training will be given.

Health & Safety Responsibilities

Managers and supervisors carry both legal and company responsibilities for ensuring the health and safety of their employees, those under their control and those who might be affected by the work undertaken, i.e. public, visitors and employees of other organisations. This includes briefing individuals working for them and ensuring there is the necessary understanding, competence and application of requirements to work safely and without harming the environment.

Employees will ensure they understand the health and safety risks involved in their work activities and their responsibility to apply the controls needed to manage those risks to acceptable levels. Similarly where work activities can have an adverse impact upon the environment, and where there are legal requirements, employees will understand those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied.

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