Project Quantity Surveyor

Overview

Costain’s aim is to shape, create, and deliver solutions which transform the infrastructure ecosystem, achieving sustainable growth in our four essential markets in the UK: Transport, Water, Energy, and Defence.

Our Energy business helps customers transition to clean energy, while providing practical solutions to improve the efficiency, sustainability, and resilience of existing infrastructure. We focus on delivering engineering, construction, and digital solutions to support the UK’s transition to a low-carbon economy.

Role

As part of our drive for sustainable growth, we have an exciting opportunity for experienced Project Quantity Surveyors to join our team. You will play a key role in the commercial management of major infrastructure projects, ensuring optimal contract recovery, robust financial management, and compliance with company procedures. The Project Quantity Surveyor will ensure commercial delivery in line with the Company\’s objectives with preferred experience of commercial management in Electricity Transmission and Distribution infrastructure projects. National Grid is a key target market therefore recent experience of working with National Grid is preferred but experience with other providers such as SSE would also be relevant in this context. Operating within a defined delegated level of authority, this role is responsible for enabling and supporting the Energy Sector in achieving its commercial objectives. This is a remote role to start then will move to a site project in the NW/NE of England, with travel to our London, Manchester, and Aberdeen offices as required.

Responsibilities

• Providing support to Commercial Manager/Senior Commercial Manager.
• Leading and developing the efficient and effective management and issue of accurate, timely and compliant notices and correspondence.
• Ensuring contractual and commercial risks and opportunities are identified to the Project Director/Manager.
• Preparing monthly progress valuations and claims for work completed within deadlines.
• Producing monthly cost reports, forecasts, and Contract Budget reports.
• Liaising with the Customer’s commercial team.
• Ensuring effective and consistent implementation of the Company\’s commercial policies and procedures.
• Ensuring registers of variations, delay, extension of time applications and claims are contemporaneous and maintained.
• Producing records of pre-Contract tender negotiations & reports where necessary.
• Review value management and advise on Risk management.
• Prepare, review and complete of sub-contract documentation.
• Plan change management and cost control.
• Prepare & agree interim applications for payment.
• Prepare & agree final accounts with sub-contractor.
• Manage subcontracts from initial placement of order to final account.
• Monitor and update Procurement Plan, Sub-contract procurement including analysing commercial comparisons.
• Produce requisition and award letters.
• Reconcile weekly plant, material, labour reconciliation against budget.
• Monitor main contract- including assisting with and producing Change Reports, Value Change Report Forms Main Contract, monitor allocation changes Report on matters relating to insurances relevant to the project.
• Understanding the implications of health, safety, and environmental regulations.
• Ensure all health, safety and environmental risk situations are brought to the attention of Contract Leader / Project Manager

Qualifications

• Post-graduate commercial experience in the construction industry with demonstrable track record of achievement.
• Demonstrable financial and commercial acumen.
• Practical approach, logical thought process and a methodical way of working.
• Extensive experience of setting up and/or operating office management systems including filing systems and document control and distribution.
• Extensive experience of technical minute taking at contractual meetings and able to demonstrate the ability to collate information, prepare reports, payment certificates and interim financial reports and closeout reports.
• Extensive experience of drafting effective contractual correspondence and the facilitation of collaborative solutions.
• Experience of developing & implementing procurement and contract strategies
• Proven negotiating and team-working skills with the ability to motivate and lead a team.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Demonstrable legal, contractual and construction knowledge.
• Confidence and ability to assert influence.
• Full Membership of RICS or CICES (or working towards).

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.

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