Assistant Quantity Surveyor in Batley

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.

This role is responsible for the delivery of Developer Services activities, including new connections, service installations, mains laying, mains diversions and associated network infrastructure works.

What will you be doing?

• Providing essential support to the Senior Commercial team in a wide range of activities including:
• Cost Management: assisting with cost estimations, tracking expenditures and ensuring alignment with project budgets. Assist with the production and presentation of weekly and monthly CVRs / profit and loss accounts.
• Contract Administration: ensuring compliance with contract terms, managing variations and assisting with the preparation of payment applications, submission of final accounts and cash receipt management.
• Subcontractor Management: liaising with subcontractors, managing their performance and processing payments.
• Client and Stakeholder communication: maintaining clear communication with clients, project managers and other project stakeholders.

What you’ll bring:

• Previous experience within Quantity Surveying, preferably within Utilities contracting.
• Basic understanding and previous experience of NEC contracts.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Word, Outlook, Excel).
• Full driving licence.

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include:

• Contributory pension scheme.
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
• Employee assistance programme.
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000s of retail discounts.
• Life assurance.
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave.
• Reward and recognition scheme.
• Recommend a friend - get rewarded for introducing people to us!

In addition, this role offers:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Discretionary bonus scheme.

About us:

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours:

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet.
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations.
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life.

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development. It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered. For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.