JR266: Senior Quantity Surveyor

Location: Snowdonia

Salary: £65,000 Per Annum + £5,750 Car Allowance

Overview:

First Military Executive Recruitment are currently seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor on behalf of one of our prestigious clients based on significant civils projects in Swindon.

The key purpose of this role will be will join a commercial team and is likely to report to the Commercial Lead and to be responsible for sub-contract management of projects. The successful candidate will likely have extensive Tier 1 civils contractor experience in subcontractor management.

Applications from ex-military candidates are actively encouraged, however all qualified candidates will be given due consideration.

Duties and Responsibilities:
*Management of change process.
*Identifying change with the project team.
*Ascertaining and subsequently demonstrating contractual entitlement to change.
*Preparation of notices to the client of change entitlement as requirement by the contract.
*Valuing change to ensure all costs associated with the change are recovered through a target uplift.
*Interfacing with the project team (particularly Project Managers and Planners).
*Maintenance of an up to date change control register (weekly) showing status of all change i.e: notice submitted to client, response received, programme assessed, quote submitted.
*Reviewing contractual correspondence from the client in order to identify change and reviewing of instructions issued by client in order to determine their sufficiency and correctness.
*Preparation of early warning notices for any potential future change and organising subsequent risk reduction meeting.
*Maintenance of early warning register.
*Interfacing with client in order to demonstrate entitlement to change.
*A secondary responsibility is to provide commercial support / advice to Project Managers.
*Promote high safety standards.
*Report any close calls or unsafe acts / conditions observed.
Skills and Qualifications:
*Degree qualified.
*CSCS card.
*Civil engineering projects experience is essential.
*Experience of forms of contract used in civil engineering and experience on Target Cost contracts.
*Change control management knowledge is a must.
*Must be self motivated with initiative to manage all change on the project.
*Must have good client interfacing skills in order to build mutual respect and trust.
*Must be a good team player and be able to work with different personalities across the project in order to identify change and value it.
*Must have good communications skills, particularly written communication as the role will involve writing numerous communications and preparing documents demonstrating entitlement to change to the client.
*MRICS / MCIOB / MCIES would be advantageous.
Location: Snowdonia

Salary: £65,000 Per Annum + £5,750 Car Allowance