Assistant Quantity Surveyor

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

As Assistant Quantity Surveyor you will be working as part of a large multi-disciplinary team providing commercial support. This will include working closely with project managers and design managers to ensure successful delivery of projects on time and to budget. You will support with the control of both internal and external commercial aspects of projects across a range of contractual arrangements.

We operate in Highways, Rail, Aviation and Maritime. Our vision is to deliver major transportation projects as part of a global business and to establish our wide-ranging consultancy as ‘credible’ and ‘preferred’ for our existing and new clients.

What you will contribute to the team:

• Support and advise the project manager in respect of fulfilment of all contractual obligations
• Produce detailed cost plans throughout the design phase of projects
• Actively promote and implement Value engineering and value for money
• Review appraise and report on Main Contract / Sub-contract tenders
• Monitor and process on behalf of the client commercial queries from consultants and contractors
• Attend progress meetings to respond to commercial matters raised
• Attend internal management meetings to input to reporting processes
• Check submitted assessments and applications and process
• Clarify any queries with consultant or contractor and agree with project managers
• Carry out periodic commercial checks and due diligence in conjunction with the project manager to ensure information submitted corresponds to records held by the consultant or contractor
• In conjunction with the project manager provide ongoing assessment of consultant or contractor’s estimate to completion
• Provide regular detailed financial report forecasting final project costs
• Receive and check consultant or contractor’s final account. Negotiate any amendments and reach a final figure and recommendation for acceptance or rejection
• Act in accordance with the project leaders instructions
• Comply with QES system and group/unit directives
• Preparation of monthly management reports
• Secure new and repeat business in line with the sub-divisional budget
• Prepare estimates and cost plans in line with the brief
• Preparation of standard documentation – reports, valuations, letters, financial statements etc
• Assess applications for payment in line with the contract terms
• The production of lessons learned report

Candidate specification

Essential:

• Working towards chartered status (MRICS)
• Proven skills and experience of delivering within a Cost Consultancy/Main Contractor
• Flexibility in work location and travel
• Excellent report writing skills
• Ability to prioritise and able to work under pressure
• Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with clients and colleagues
• Excellent presentation and communication skills
• Effective time management
• Customer focus

Desirable:

• NEC Experience
• Rail sector experience

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• Financial wellbeing: We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%. Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary. Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Employee Ownership: Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
• Health and wellbeing: Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues. Health cash plan to support you with everyday health costs and treatments.
• Lifestyle: A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Enhanced family and carers leave: Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Learning and development: Primary annual professional institution subscription. A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.