Assistant Quantity Surveyor in Ashford, Kent

Aureos is seeking an Assistant Quantity Surveyor to join our growing team in Ashford. Working within Aureos’ Rail Business Unit, and forming a part of the Commercial team, the Assistant Quantity Surveyor plays an integral part in delivering exceptional commercial results. Core responsibilities encompass project delivery, commercial reporting and maximising profit. Aureos Rail work collaboratively with our customers to deliver critical national infrastructure projects across the UK’s rail network.

Our goals are to:

• Grow: turnover, margin and customer satisfaction
• Improve: operational delivery, reliability and outcomes
• Sustain: our people, communities and the environment

Aureos’ Action Agenda – Unleashing our potential, a business-wide strategy focusing on seven key priorities:

• Sustainable innovation: Embedding sustainable improvements with an aim to be net zero.
• Structure and Governance: Through monthly Performance review meetings and clear delegation of authority.
• Business Development and Customer Relationship Management: Growing into new markets and developing relationships and strategies with new and existing customers.
• Safety, Health and Wellbeing: implementing tiers of H&S management and bringing the operational input to the fore.
• People and inclusion: With specific training and succession planning.
• Operational effectiveness: Enhancing our capabilities and strengthening the existing core of the business.
• Digitisation: Through an internal Programme Management office, lean tools, and digital platforms.

With sustainable growth in mind, our Assistant Quantity Surveyor is responsible for assisting the commercial team in completing and maintaining well organised records, contributing to the timely production of applications for payment and accurate project reporting, and independently able to run minor works projects and frameworks.

Primary tasks and duties:

• Reporting to the Commercial Manager, you will assist the commercial team in providing support to the contract delivery team to ensure the profitability, cash management, cost control and accurate reporting of all schemes.
• Your role will require you to:

• Capably submit applications and control credit processes
• Understand income forecast and pricing of variations
• Understand the change control system
• Understand project risk
• Produce cost value reconciliation (CVRs) with support
• Produce cost to complete with support
• Understand the production of forecasting data
• Understand the costing process
• Understand the management of the full sub-contract cycle and input into sub-contract documentation.
• Assist with weekly cost to complete/budget reviews with the contract delivery teams.
• Upload documentation as and when necessary, in line with business requirements.
• Review weekly site records including allocation sheets and site diaries.
• Attend project progress meetings.
• Assist with the preparation of monthly financial performance reports.
• Gain experience outside of the commercial function to better understand the role of the business and the quantity surveyor within the business.

Secondary tasks and duties:

• We operate a team ethos across the Rail Business Unit and strive to assist colleagues in the execution of their duties where this is appropriate and brings added value.
• The Assistant Quantity Surveyor is responsible for the following in this respect:

• Working with the commercial and operational teams to strive for continuous improvement.
• Commitment to their own professional development, and that of others across the Business Unit.
• Other tasks appropriate to the role of Assistant Quantity Surveyor, as identified by the Quantity Surveyor/Managing Surveyor.

Behaviours:

Aureos Rail expects all employees to conduct themselves in a safe professional manner, applying the following key behaviours across all aspects of their work:

• Trust and respect: We act with integrity and treat everyone with respect. We have an open and honest working environment in which everyone contributes effectively. We deliver on our commitments and support others across our team to deliver on theirs.
• Accountability and decision making: We ensure responsibilities are clearly defined and fulfilled, and that performance is managed fairly. Everyone knows what is expected of them and how their job fits into the bigger picture. We include the right people in the right conversations, making decisions in an effective and timely manner; we take accountability for our actions and ownership of the outcomes.
• Communication and engagement: We are a high performing, collaborative team of effective communicators. We willingly share information across the team to the benefit of all. When communicating, we provide clarity and seek feedback to ensure understanding.
• Constructive challenge: We are open to challenge and welcome diversity of opinion. We welcome the opinions of others, even when they differ from our own. We challenge in a constructive and professional manner to promote success.
• Improvement and innovation: We challenge the status quo to find better ways of working. Everyone in the team proactively shares ideas without fear. We learn from successes and mistakes to promote continual improvement.

Expectations:

Targets for the Assistant Quantity Surveyor will be set and reviewed on a 6 monthly basis, aligned with the responsibilities and behaviours listed within this job description. The section below will be used to record key targets, which will align with Performance Reviews undertaken via the current Group process.

• The Trainee Quantity Surveyor is expected to:

• Independently contribute to prompt payment of sub-contracts and maintenance of sub-contract liabilities and other trackers.
• Complete and well organised records.
• Contribute to the timely production of Cost and value reconciliations.
• Maintain a professional development log and commit to continuous improvement.

In return you will receive:

• Generous Salary
• 25 days Holiday plus Bank Holiday
• Pension
• Learning & Development opportunities
• Assistance and Wellbeing support

Equal opportunities: Aureos are an equal opportunities employer, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.