Senior Quantity Surveyor

Costain have won extensive work across the water sector this year to support the AMP 8 investment cycle. We have been appointed by United Utilities as one of 7 partners to the Enterprise, delivering £5.5bn of projects in the Asset Management Period 8 (AMP8) between 2025 - 2030, and AMP 9 (2030 - 2035). Our scope is to provide project management, design, construction and commissioning services on design and build schemes throughout the North West and Cumbria region covered by United Utilities. Projects vary in value, covering both infrastructure and non-infrastructure assets on water and wastewater sites with wider Enterprise partners.

The role of the Senior Quantity Surveyor is to provide commercial support on projects to ensure that it is procured, delivered within budget and to the highest quality whilst exceeding our customers' expectations. You will lead and develop where necessary the efficient and effective management and issue of accurate, timely and compliant notices and correspondence and ensure the compliance of all contractual activities on the project. You will ensure contractual and commercial risks and opportunities are identified to the Project Director / Commercial Manager and address in a timely manner.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining registers of variations, delay, extension times and claims, effective and consistent implementation of the Company's commercial policies and procedures, within a timely manner.
• Assist with preparation of monthly progress valuations and claim for work completed.
• Liaise with Employers commercial team & client team within a collaborative manner to leverage opportunity and optimise the project outturn.
• Produce pre-Contract tender negotiations & reports where necessary.
• Produce monthly cost reports, forecasts, and Contract Budget reports to ensure details are appropriately underpinned and robust.
• Review value management / value engineering exercises.
• Advise on Risk management & participate in Risk workshop.
• Prepare, review and complete of sub-contract documentation.
• Plan change management and cost control.
• Produce and monitor Commercial / Contractual correspondence and issues to reflect COSTAIN best practice.
• Prepare & agree final accounts with sub contractor.
• Review subcontract tender enquiries.
• Agree final accounts.
• Identify and price specification changes.
• 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.
• Attend site meetings where necessary to guide any direct reports, review progress and implement best practice.
• Reconcile weekly plant, material, labour reconciliation against budget.
• Monitor cash to ensure payments made on time to COSTAIN.

Qualifications

• Experience of NEC form of Contract.
• Significant commercial experience preferably in the water sector.
• Increasing knowledge of a variety of forms & options of contracts.
• Have a good understanding and experience of business systems, spreadsheet development, cost analysis, programme evaluation and development, compensation event and/or variations assessment and evaluation.
• Have experience or appreciation of the risk management process for both schedule and cost and the use of Earned Value Management.
• Full Clean Drivers Licence.
• Relevant degree / equivalent in QS.
• Hold / nearing completion of Full Membership of either RICS or CICES.

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. A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.