Overview

Senior Quantity Surveyor – Plymouth
Job Description

The role of a Senior Quantity Surveyor is to manage all assigned commercial activities within the project environment. The Senior Quantity Surveyor will be involved with all aspects of the project lifecycle, seeking to minimise the costs of a project and enhance value for money whilst achieving the required standards and quality in accordance with contract and Customer’s and/or Contract Leader expectations.

The role will focus on post Contract management of Main Civils Framework Package awarded on NEC 4 terms.

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Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

  • Overall NEC 4 Contract Management utilising CEMAR for administration
  • Application assessment & agreement
  • Forecasting & Variance reporting
  • Auditing & verification of Defined Cost
  • Change Management NEC Process
  • Management of Extra Scope & Budget verification
  • Involvement in Monthly Cost & Value Reporting

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Essential:

  • Post-graduate commercial experience in the construction industry with demonstrable track record of achievement
  • Demonstrable financial and commercial acumen.

Desirable:

  • A creative and innovative approach to problem solving.
  • Extensive Civils Experience on NEC forms
  • Main Contracting Background
  • CEMAR experience

Qualifications

Essential:

  • Holds an RICS / CICES accredited degree

Desirable:

  • Senior Quantity Surveyors will hold or be nearing completion of Full Membership with RICS / CIEC

About Us

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase.

We do share individual feedback following an interview .

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