Quantity Surveyor - #146327
National Highways
Date: 2 weeks ago
City: Basingstoke
Contract type: Full time
Location: South East in Basingstoke, Guildford or Maidstone
About The Job.
National Highways is expanding its commercial management team to support the delivery of its £1bn annual investment programme to maintain the Strategic Road Network. As part of this expansion, we have an exciting opportunity for a Quantity Surveyor to join our team.
You will lead the commercial and contract management of a diverse portfolio of schemes, ranging from £1m to over £30m in value. The variety and complexity of these projects will provide you with the opportunity to enhance your skills, capabilities, and experience in a challenging and rewarding delivery environment.
Provide contractual advice to the business and the service delivery team.
Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England’s motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.
Operations is at the heart of keeping the strategic road network moving and ensuring our customers get the best possible experience when using our roads.
We address over 39,000 customer enquiries every month, plan and deliver all maintenance activities on the network, drive efficiencies and improvements across our systems and roads, and respond to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads that we manage. All to make sure National Highways customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys.
External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
About The Job.
National Highways is expanding its commercial management team to support the delivery of its £1bn annual investment programme to maintain the Strategic Road Network. As part of this expansion, we have an exciting opportunity for a Quantity Surveyor to join our team.
You will lead the commercial and contract management of a diverse portfolio of schemes, ranging from £1m to over £30m in value. The variety and complexity of these projects will provide you with the opportunity to enhance your skills, capabilities, and experience in a challenging and rewarding delivery environment.
Provide contractual advice to the business and the service delivery team.
- Day to day contract and commercial management including managing communication and notifications to timescales, managing and valuing compensation events and early warnings and review and agree final account using CEMAR contract management portal.
- Assess payment applications using National Highways systems.
- Lead on regular cost and contract audits to ensure contractor compliance with contract conditions.
- Monitor actual costs against budget and prepare contract forecasts, identification of risks and opportunities to Opex and Capex budgets.
- Act as a line manager and mentor to Assistant Quantity Surveyors, Graduates and Apprentices and provide on-going support in their professional development.
- B.Sc(Hons) in Commercial Management or Quantity Surveying.
- Member with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS or above), the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors (MCInstCES or above) or an equivalent membership of a relevant professional body.
- Demonstrable experience of contract administration, desirably using NEC forms of contract.
- Demonstrable experience of delivering quantity surveying/commercial functions, preferably in a civil engineering/infrastructure environment.
- Proficient user of excel and familiarity with contract management and administration software systems (e.g. CEMAR).
Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England’s motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.
Operations is at the heart of keeping the strategic road network moving and ensuring our customers get the best possible experience when using our roads.
We address over 39,000 customer enquiries every month, plan and deliver all maintenance activities on the network, drive efficiencies and improvements across our systems and roads, and respond to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads that we manage. All to make sure National Highways customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys.
External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
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