Senior Quantity Surveyor

Senior Quantity Surveyor

Enfield, London

Permanent salary plus benefits package

 

Sphere Solutions are currently recruiting for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to work for a reputable civil engineering contractor on a permanent contract in London.

The Project:

Our client has been awarded the £120m strategic infrastructure contract for Meridian Water, a regeneration project led by Enfield Council.  The new infrastructure serves as the foundation for the construction of thousands of new homes, businesses, and communal spaces for the local Edmonton community. It covers an extensive range of works including the naturalisation of Pymmes Brook, two new parks, bridges, footpaths, road and cycle links to be delivered over the next few years.

 

Responsibility:

Responsible for initiating and leading tasks and processes, taking responsibility and being accountable, where relevant, for the work and roles of others whilst exercising broad autonomy and judgement within broad parameters in their area of responsibility. Specialist learning involves detailed analysis of a high level of information and knowledge in an area of work or study.

 

Summary of Role:

• Responsible to a Project Manager or Commercial Manager for all commercial aspects of a project or a section of a project. Ensure that VINCI’s commercial position is protected using in-depth understanding and experience of contractual, commercial, insurance and legal processes. Some responsibility for effective client relationship management to encourage the smooth commercial progression of the contract(s)
• Provides liaison with the client, PQS, and senior staff. Expected to manage and provide development and support to other commercial team members.
• Responsible for planning and managing own work and that of other commercial team members.

 

Specific Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate and maintain a high level of commercial and technical knowledge and work closely with the delivery team to develop techniques and solutions to meet business and customer needs.
• Business Leadership
• Understand the impact of commercial and technical changes at strategic level within the customer’s business industry/sector.
• Anticipate and plan changes in commercial resources within a project.
• Assist the business/project in achieving the objectives/targets set in the Taylor Woodrow Carbon Strategy within your specific work activities.

 

Procurement

• Prepare the basis of the project procurement schedule and ensure the team contribute and complete their relevant sections.
• Carry out subcontract procurement in accordance with the procurement timetable, in accordance with the procurement policy.
• Ensure that materials and off-site services are procured in an efficient manner with capable organisations in accordance with the procurement policy and procedures and ensure appropriate records are kept.
• Prepare the basis of robust work package contents sheets and ensure the project team contribute and completes their relevant sections. Carries out gap analysis between packages to ensure full and complete subcontract procurement takes place.
• Prepare subcontract invitations to tender and evaluate tender returns (time, cost, quality and SHE) and make recommendations to appoint and place subcontracts, all in accordance with the Vinci Procurement process.
• Work with the supply chain to promote and measure continuous improvement in terms of cost, quality and learning of all parties

 

Applications for Payment and Invoicing

• Maximise cash flow through timely preparation of valuations, submission of invoices and receipt of payment.
• Manage prompt preparation and settlement of final accounts, including variations, claims and disputes.

 

Cost Control

• Identify, manage, reduce and drive out unnecessary costs and inefficient activities.
• Prepare material wastage reconciliations.
• Monitor resources and costs to ensure that projects meet and/or exceed targets, including but not limited to the scheduling of labour resources.
• Review plant and equipment schedules to ensure efficiency of use.

 

Accounting and Reporting

• Production of accurate and timely CVR reports and forecasts.
• Establish and maintain accurate and robust reporting structures and monitor resources and costs to ensure that projects meet and/or exceed targets.
• Use a high-level understanding of planning and programming, and a detailed knowledge of financial reporting to provide challenge to the rest of the project team to ensure robust and honest progress reporting.

 

Risk and Opportunity Management

• Early identification of project risks and opportunities, ensuring that risks and opportunities are managed, and risk and opportunity registers are in use to minimise risks and realise opportunities.

 

Change Control

• Ensure that any “Change” is identified through participation in a regular and detailed review of construction information, measured against the contract requirements.
• Carry out early value engineering activities as part of the project team, ensuring all associated costs of change are included within the evaluation.
• Programming and Project Controls
• Assist and provide advice on programmes regarding contractual and commercial requirements to mitigate risk, and maximize opportunity.
• Main Contract
• Ensure the project team understands the contractual relationships between the various parties and “stakeholders”, including the contractual obligations in relation to those interested parties, with particular emphasis to Conditions Precedent.
• Ensure that all necessary contractual notices are put in place, timely and accurately and in accordance with the Vinci contractual obligations.

 

Subcontract Administration

• Prepare all necessary subcontract notices accurately and on time.
• Prepare subcontract instructions.
• Put in place and adhere to robust subcontract change control procedures.
• Prepare timely and accurate payments for authorization.
• Manage prompt preparation and settlement of final accounts, including Compensation Events (variations), claims and disputes.
• Re-measurement and provision of quantified schedules of works and/or bills of quantities.

 

Project Completion

• Close out the project efficiently using a high degree of understanding and working knowledge of project close-out processes.
• Ensuring appropriate records and information are kept and archived