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Job Purpose:
To commercially manage all aspects of the Quantity Surveying function from Procurement through to Final Account agreement on a contract, on numerous projects.
Key Accountabilities:
Internal
• Work in partnership with site management, commercially supporting sites as required, to develop a proactive site team. Ensuring that contractual obligations are identified and administered.
• Preparing the Construction Budget to present to the Commercial Director.
• Monitor the Construction Budget on a regular basis and report to Commercial Director
• Collate month end invoicing schedules and assist credit control in the timely collection of cash
• Produce monthly CVR and agree with Commercial Director
• Ensure that site files are properly set up and maintained in accordance with QA procedures
• Prepare and locate Archive Store once a contract is complete
• Provide commercial support to other aspects of the business such as maintenance and product sales
• Ensure that all relevant weekly records, for the purpose of producing proper monthly accounts, are produced and issued to accounts
• Assist in the economic employment of directly employed resources, identifying from weekly review of time sheets, the recovery of additional works.
Contract
• Prepare and agree interim valuations. Obtain interim certificate
• Raise invoice for payment and ensure Employer process payments in accordance with the contract
• Monitor with site team all change orders issued, all CVI’s required and any other form of change/instruction
• Agree with relevant parties the value of all changes in a timely manner
• Prepare all necessary notices of delays caused and issue such notices in accordance with the contract
• Assist in the preparation of extension of time applications and associated Loss & Expense
• Agree Final Account
Subcontract
• Prepare subcontract procurement packages, send out, receive back, approve and appoint all subcontractors required for the works
• Evaluate interim payments based upon the measurement of works completed on site
• Issue relevant notifications of payment and advise accounts of payments due to subcontractors
• Notify and agree costs of all changes and instructions
• Prepare set off notices as required by the subcontract and administer the set off provisions
• Agree Final Accounts with subcontractors
Knowledge:
• Proven experience of working in related D&B or similar commercial environment
• Good commercial acumen
• Contractually aware and experienced in using various standard
• Experienced with resolving difficult or disputed accounts to finality
• Proven experience of working in related D&B or similar commercial environment
• Contractually aware and experienced in using various standard forms
• Understanding of applying and working to defined contractual and commercial procedures
Personal Qualities
• Good negotiation skills
• Team player with solid work ethic
• Ability to maintain good working relationships
• Good organisational skills with the ability to prioritise own workload
• Excellent Customer Service skills
• Good Oral and Written Communication Skills
• A high level of confidentiality, tact and diplomacy
• Good IT Skills, including Microsoft Office.
• Confident manner, with ability to work to deadlines, whilst remaining focussed
• A full UK driving licence
General Competencies
Problem Solving
• Simplify complex issues to identify the essence of a problem
• Grasp issues quickly and make sound decisions without needing all the data
• Identify causal links between multiple parts of a problem
• Identify where to get information and gets it.
Communication
• Manage group discussions effectively.
• Summarise information to check that people understand it.
• Support arguments and recommendations effectively in writing.
• Produce well-structured reports and written summaries.
Strategic Perspective
• Predict the effects of complex problems and issues and take appropriate action.
• Consider the longer term and broader view, even when having to respond quickly.
• Predict the effect of legislation on the organisation and prepare for it.
• Think across functional and unit boundaries, to understand how your actions affect other people.
Conceptual Thinking
• Think laterally to see connections between events and data which are not obviously related
• Recognise how one situation may be affected by another and consider the implications of actions on other tasks and projects
• Make appropriate use of past knowledge and experience.
• Convert theoretical processes and procedures into practical applications, and complex data into simplified models
Flexibility
• Smoothly handle multiple demands, shifting priorities, and rapid change
• Adapt responses and tactics to fit fluid circumstances
• Willingly accept new work/ projects
• Appreciate the need to change as circumstance dictates
Inspiring Others
Communicate and lead change
Build trust and generates enthusiasm via honest and open communication
Delegate tasks and responsibility appropriately
Lead and motivate by example
Safety Competencies
• Promote and comply with the Company’s policies on equality and health and safety both in the delivery of service and the treatment of others.
• Environmental awareness training
• CDM Training
• CSCS Black Managers card
Technical Competencies
• Measurement and valuation
• Management of the construction project in the context of forecasting, analysing, planning, controlling and accounting.
• Procurement and tendering
• Cost advice during use by the client
• Financial reporting
• Cost planning
• Life-cycle costing and value analysis
• Evaluation of tenders
• Cash-flow forecasting,
• Final accounting and the settlement of contractual disputes
• Project management
Senior Quantity Surveyor
- Location: Blackburn
- Salary: negotiable
- Job Type:Permanent
Posted over 3 years ago
- Sector: Built Environment
- Contact: Jennifer Zoller
- Contact Email: jzoller@nrl.co.uk
- Contact Phone: 0191 415 3300
- Start Date: ASAP
- Expiry Date: 15 January 2021
- Job Ref: 1034068
To commercially manage all aspects of the Quantity Surveying function from Procurement through to Final Account agreement on a contract, on numerous projects.
Key Accountabilities:
Internal
• Work in partnership with site management, commercially supporting sites as required, to develop a proactive site team. Ensuring that contractual obligations are identified and administered.
• Preparing the Construction Budget to present to the Commercial Director.
• Monitor the Construction Budget on a regular basis and report to Commercial Director
• Collate month end invoicing schedules and assist credit control in the timely collection of cash
• Produce monthly CVR and agree with Commercial Director
• Ensure that site files are properly set up and maintained in accordance with QA procedures
• Prepare and locate Archive Store once a contract is complete
• Provide commercial support to other aspects of the business such as maintenance and product sales
• Ensure that all relevant weekly records, for the purpose of producing proper monthly accounts, are produced and issued to accounts
• Assist in the economic employment of directly employed resources, identifying from weekly review of time sheets, the recovery of additional works.
Contract
• Prepare and agree interim valuations. Obtain interim certificate
• Raise invoice for payment and ensure Employer process payments in accordance with the contract
• Monitor with site team all change orders issued, all CVI’s required and any other form of change/instruction
• Agree with relevant parties the value of all changes in a timely manner
• Prepare all necessary notices of delays caused and issue such notices in accordance with the contract
• Assist in the preparation of extension of time applications and associated Loss & Expense
• Agree Final Account
Subcontract
• Prepare subcontract procurement packages, send out, receive back, approve and appoint all subcontractors required for the works
• Evaluate interim payments based upon the measurement of works completed on site
• Issue relevant notifications of payment and advise accounts of payments due to subcontractors
• Notify and agree costs of all changes and instructions
• Prepare set off notices as required by the subcontract and administer the set off provisions
• Agree Final Accounts with subcontractors
Knowledge:
• Proven experience of working in related D&B or similar commercial environment
• Good commercial acumen
• Contractually aware and experienced in using various standard
• Experienced with resolving difficult or disputed accounts to finality
• Proven experience of working in related D&B or similar commercial environment
• Contractually aware and experienced in using various standard forms
• Understanding of applying and working to defined contractual and commercial procedures
Personal Qualities
• Good negotiation skills
• Team player with solid work ethic
• Ability to maintain good working relationships
• Good organisational skills with the ability to prioritise own workload
• Excellent Customer Service skills
• Good Oral and Written Communication Skills
• A high level of confidentiality, tact and diplomacy
• Good IT Skills, including Microsoft Office.
• Confident manner, with ability to work to deadlines, whilst remaining focussed
• A full UK driving licence
General Competencies
Problem Solving
• Simplify complex issues to identify the essence of a problem
• Grasp issues quickly and make sound decisions without needing all the data
• Identify causal links between multiple parts of a problem
• Identify where to get information and gets it.
Communication
• Manage group discussions effectively.
• Summarise information to check that people understand it.
• Support arguments and recommendations effectively in writing.
• Produce well-structured reports and written summaries.
Strategic Perspective
• Predict the effects of complex problems and issues and take appropriate action.
• Consider the longer term and broader view, even when having to respond quickly.
• Predict the effect of legislation on the organisation and prepare for it.
• Think across functional and unit boundaries, to understand how your actions affect other people.
Conceptual Thinking
• Think laterally to see connections between events and data which are not obviously related
• Recognise how one situation may be affected by another and consider the implications of actions on other tasks and projects
• Make appropriate use of past knowledge and experience.
• Convert theoretical processes and procedures into practical applications, and complex data into simplified models
Flexibility
• Smoothly handle multiple demands, shifting priorities, and rapid change
• Adapt responses and tactics to fit fluid circumstances
• Willingly accept new work/ projects
• Appreciate the need to change as circumstance dictates
Inspiring Others
Communicate and lead change
Build trust and generates enthusiasm via honest and open communication
Delegate tasks and responsibility appropriately
Lead and motivate by example
Safety Competencies
• Promote and comply with the Company’s policies on equality and health and safety both in the delivery of service and the treatment of others.
• Environmental awareness training
• CDM Training
• CSCS Black Managers card
Technical Competencies
• Measurement and valuation
• Management of the construction project in the context of forecasting, analysing, planning, controlling and accounting.
• Procurement and tendering
• Cost advice during use by the client
• Financial reporting
• Cost planning
• Life-cycle costing and value analysis
• Evaluation of tenders
• Cash-flow forecasting,
• Final accounting and the settlement of contractual disputes
• Project management