Quantity Surveyor Defence in Birmingham

Important: Before applying, due to the sensitive nature of these projects, you must be a SOLE UK National who is able to achieve and maintain UK MoD Security Clearance (SC). Already holding SC Clearance is desirable; however, we advise that if you feel you would be a great candidate for this role, please apply.

At Turner & Townsend, we're passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realise their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society. Every day, we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects in over 110 offices worldwide.

Turner & Townsend within the UK has a wide range of key clients in various sectors, including Health, Local Authorities, Higher Education, Highways, Utilities, Rail, and Defence. Our diverse portfolio of clients provides our team members with unique and rewarding opportunities to gain experience across a broad range of major programmes and projects.

Our Cost Centre, Programme Performance, combines practical transformation delivery with project insight to help organisations make better decisions, manage uncertainty, and deliver consistent programme performance. Our service offerings span across Defence, including in the regulated environment.

We are actively looking to expand the team due to client requirements and have talented individuals join us who will support our broad client portfolio while further developing their career, working on a range of complex and challenging commissions.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE: You will be a Quantity Surveyor within our Defence business working on a variety of client and Turner & Townsend projects and initiatives.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Establishing friendly, professional and appropriate relationships with clients, colleagues and other parties involved in the projects and programmes we support.
• Support in administering a variety of contracts in accordance with project objectives and policies.
• Providing accurate project cost monitoring, forecasting and reporting to completion in line with budget.
• Assist in pro-actively monitoring and managing cost variance and contract cash flow and ensuring that applications are made correctly and in a timely manner.
• Collaborating with client and contractor teams to manage the delivery of project deliverables, KPIs, and objectives, including programme performance, cost control, and value engineering.
• Managing contract change effectively, ensuring that projects remain within governance and adopt best practice.
• Proactively providing sound commercial knowledge and support to all stakeholders.
• Support the negotiation and agreement of final accounts.
• Able to work as part of a team or as an individual with limited supervision.
• Supporting development and promotion of estimating good practice within Turner & Townsend.
• Supporting estimating good practice as a representative of Turner & Townsend within our client organisations.
• Assisting in the achievement of departmental objectives.
• Staying abreast of developments within own technical area of expertise to be able to give best practice advice in line with business objectives.

Qualifications

Essential:

• Qualification in Estimating, Quantity Surveying or Cost Engineering.
• Experience of working in the Infrastructure (Rail, air, power, highways) sector.
• Demonstrable and proven experience in:
• Compilation, assurance and delivery of complex estimates and cost models.
• Working within an integrated Project Controls team.
• Single-sourced, non-competed public procurement.
• Excellent and flexible skills in Microsoft Office Suite (MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience of working in a client-facing environment.

Preferred:

• Membership of a relevant professional body with chartered status and/or educated to degree level.
• Experience in early-stage estimating in complex / major Defence Infrastructure programmes.
• Familiarity with industry-standard estimating software packages.

Additional Information

Turner & Townsend recognises the importance of helping its employees harmonise their work and home life by offering hybrid working, that enable them to balance their working life with other priorities. At the same time, T&T recognises that employee office and site attendance must always remain in line with the demands of the business and clients. Currently, we anticipate you being on client sites or Turner & Townsend offices 60% of your time, but this may flex depending on client and business requirements.

Turner & Townsend is looking for the right people to join our team - if you do not fulfil 100% of the advert but think you can add value to our teams and clients please apply or reach out to the recruiter for a discussion.

The successful candidate will demonstrate behaviours that are consistent with the T&T Value and Behaviours Model:

• Love a challenge: We love a challenge and we work hard to make change happen and see things through. We don't stand still, challenging ourselves and others to do better every day.
• Stronger together: We're stronger together by connecting people in diverse teams, so that we can all collaborate to deliver our best work.
• Bring out the best in everyone: Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.