Quantity Surveyor in Swansea, Wales

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? At M Group Energy, we’re enabling the energy essential to support our lives. We provide an end-to-end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy, EV, metering and home decarbonisation.

What will you be doing? We’re looking for a Quantity Surveyor to join our commercial team. This will include frequent site visits to Swansea where the project is based. You’ll play a key role in managing contracts, sub-contractor accounts, and project finances, while ensuring compliance and mitigating risks. From tracking costs to valuing additional works, you’ll support the team to keep projects on time and within budget. Travel will be required for this role, so a full UK driving licence is required. This role is hybrid with at least 3 days on site a week.

• Knowledge, understanding and administration of respective entitlements and obligations under the main contract and sub-contracts.
• Close liaison with, and provision of assistance to, all operational and support staff to enable overall management of a project.
• Support the project strategy for the management of risk and opportunity.
• Understand risks associated with the Conditions of Contract and how they are being managed and support compliance.
• Compile robust enquiries and analyse quotations / tenders for review with the commercial and operational team to select subcontractors.
• Management of sub-contract accounts through to completion including valuations, payments, variations, forecast of final accounts, and contractual correspondence.
• Identification, measurement and valuation of additional works.
• Support/negotiate principle and value of change with Clients team.
• Support compilation of Contract Final Account.
• Administration of contract records.
• Collation of accurate information for monthly cost / value reconciliations and contract reviews.
• Weekly cost / value report generations.
• Control and forecast of site expenditure to completion.
• Production of financial and statistical reports as required.
• Performance of any reasonable task requested by line managers.
• Carry out any other duties appropriate to this post.

What you’ll bring:

• Significant experience in a similar role.
• Detailed knowledge and previous experience of the NEC 4 suite of Contracts (Option A & E contract knowledge desirable but not essential).
• Detailed knowledge and experience within the M&E sector preferred.
• UK Driving Licence.

What’s in it for you?

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Company car/car allowance and fuel card for business use.
• Private health care and health care cash plan for you.
• Matched or contributory pension scheme.
• Life Assurance.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave.

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 are 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.