Quantity Surveyor

80608 - Quantity Surveyor

This Quantity Surveyor will report to the Area Commercial Manager and will work within UKPN Services – Commercial based in our Stansted 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: 15/04/2025.

We also provide the following additional benefits

• 25 Days Annual Leave plus bank holidays. 
• Reservist Leave – Additional 18 days full pay and 22 unpaid
• 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, Season Ticket Loan
• Tax efficient benefits: Cycle to Work, Home & Tech, and Green Car Leasing Schemes
• Occupational Health support
• Switched On – scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers’ products
• Discounted gym membership
• Employee Assistance Programme

Job Purpose

In the role you will 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.

You will 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.

This includes proactively 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.

Key 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, identifying and reporting areas of non-conformance to the Area Commercial Manager.
• Ensure that the project delivery team have acted observing the Contracts.
• Liaise with all external and internal stakeholders to ensure projects progress without delay, and that all reasonable requests are met.
• Assist in the preparation of 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 observing the contract and meeting the required reporting deadlines.
• Manage a programme of current workload, in order that all contracts receive the relevant allocation of resource to efficiently commercially manage them.
• Produce quality reports in a timely, professional and legible manner
• 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 review and update the risk registers, and add in new risks arising from the aforementioned EWN's and CE's.
• Identify principal risks and opportunities, raise, addresses and resolve problems at a project level and supports the project delivery team, maintains a schedule of potential financial implications for the various 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 identifies where clauses are in breach of Partner policies and guidelines, 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 stakeholders on the preferred option.

Dimensions:

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

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications and Experience:

• Quantity surveying experience, and experience 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 and/or membership of the RICS, CIOB, ICES or other relevant Chartered Institute would be an additional advantage.
• Ideally some knowledge of SAP and Primavera P6.
• Communication, team work and stakeholder management skills
• Analytical skills to make informed, balanced decisions reporting findings back to Clients and Internal Stakeholders.
• 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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If you have any queries in connection to this vacancy or your application, please contact us at careers@ukpowernetworks.co.uk quoting the vacancy reference number and a member of the team will get in touch with you as soon as possible.