Job Description
Our client a well known and established engineering company are actively looking to hire a Quantity Surveyor reporting into the Commercial Manager based from their offices in Glasgow.
Job Title: Quantity Surveyor
Location: Glasgow
Duration: 12 Months
Rates: Competitive Hourly Rate - Inside IR35 / Umbrella
Hybrid Work: 3 Days Office - 2 Days Remote
Job Duties:
- Facilitate and coordinate effective corporate governance compliance, implementation and monitoring in line with Group and the Comapnies requirements.
- The Quantity Surveyor will work with key internal stakeholders, client and suppliers/subcontractors to drive both strategic value and operational excellence through all levels of the business.
- Provide commercial support and expertise to projects being responsible for a range of commercial activities (bid governance, reviews, change management, compensation event, contractual notices etc.)
- Undertake internal compliance, liaising with the relevant Head of Commercial (HoC) / SQS and customers as required
- Support the CNL Project Managers with all commercial aspects on the project
- Develop relationships with key stakeholders (internal and external) ensuring alignment of objectives and mutual setting of goals
- Good understanding of the head contract terms and conditions and how these flow down to the Subcontract supply chain
- Proactively ensures contract compliance exists and proposes and monitors correction plans to ensure any non-compliance is eliminated
- Supports the construction of and delivers a robust procurement project plan that delivers the objectives of the project, ensuring the deadline and budget are met and that the necessary communications and risk mitigations are in place
- Management of commercial risk including effective management and mitigation of supply chain risk to ensure that the Company s commercial position is best protected referring to SQS, HoC or (Senior) Project manager as the project dictates
- Ensure disallowed costs are at an absolute minimum.
- Utilise sourcing and tendering processes that meet and exceed project / programme deliverables
- Ensure that work packages are well defined, procured on suitable terms and conditions, with quantified risk
- Manage the post contract commercial management of subcontracts during project execution phases and mitigating the business exposure to subcontractor claims
- Ensure contractual procedures and notices are followed and issued in a timely manner.
- Ensure all Supplier / Subcontractor compensation events / claims are adequately justified, rationally explained and recorded to support potential head contract CE s / variations and sustain audit both externally and internally.
- Settlement of Final Accounts with Sub-contractors
- Review contracts and draft subcontract terms as required and appropriate
- Check subcontractor invoices and certifying payments
- Collect / record event details from site to establish variations / contract charges etc.
- Review manufacturing list, liaising closely with Designers, Manufacturers and on site crews
- Participate as a key project member Team to drive performance
- Develop key external commercial customer relationships
- Act as champion for the communication and embedding commercial guidance and expertise, initiatives, policies and procedures across the relevant project teams
- Act as a role model, consultant and commercial coach to the project teams to ensure consistency of approach in commercial awareness, and developing and maintaining positive relationships
- Raise key commercial issues with higher management through both line management and functional management lines - escalate resourcing/timeline risks constructively to leadership and offers solutions
Experience Required:
Essential:
- Educated to degree level (or equivalent) in Building Services Quantity Surveying or have a general degree in Quantity Surveying
- Relevant experience in a Quantity Surveying role
- Good understanding of day to day commercial administration in the engineering and Construction industries
- General commercial experience
- Evidence of delivering on accountabilities and driving the commercial agenda
- Experience in delivering to project commercial strategy, and to delivering on large and complex contracts and bids
- Experience in supporting large-scale projects and complex change initiatives using appropriate methodologies
- Experience in developing and sustaining positive working relationships including the ability to understand and work in line with the customers commercial strategy
- People management experience and commercial consultancy expertise
- Excellent NEC3/4 skills
- Good communication and inter personal skills
Desirable:
- Evidence of cross-Business Unit networking, delivering speedy and proactive commercial advice and knowledge sharing
- Minimum level of Qualifications to be verified
- ( N.B. only qualifications essential to the requirements of the role need to be checked)
- Educated to degree level (or equivalent) in Building Services Quantity Surveying or have a general degree in Quantity Surveying
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