Quantity Surveyor

 

Main characteristics

Location

Warwick, Warwickshire

Company

Balfour Beatty UK

Salary

£NEG

Employment type

Permanent

Category

Construction / Skilled Trades

Job summary

About the role

Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a Quantity Surveyor to join our Living Places business unit working on our Warwickshire Highways Maintenance Contract .

The role will be working from our Budbrooke Depot within our Capital delivery team primarily looking after Footway Renewals, Drainage, and VRS schemes. The Capital work stream is supported by a Senior QS, QS, Graduate QS and Trainee QS, therefore there will be an element of line management and mentoring of the graduate and trainee QS.

Role Purpose:

A Quantity Surveyor has a number of years experience in managing all costs relating to building and civil engineering projects;

Works will involve management of supply chain, agreement of monthly high-level orders with client, final accounting and dealing with change management

They actively seek to minimise the costs of a project and enhance value for money, while still achieving the required standards and quality for our Customers;

Typically a QS will be chartered or in the final stages of achieving professional membership of the RICS, ICES or CIOB and will be a peer role model for those less experienced members of the commercial team.

What you'll be doing

As a Quantity Surveyor you will:

Governance:

Have a good knowledge of and adheres to the Companys GMCEs, BMS and other governance.

Analytical Thinking & Decision Making:

Orders information and systematically checks data.

Cost Engineering:

Measure, record & value work unsupervised in accordance with appropriate rules and procedures.

Estimating:

Measure & interpret specifications & drawings;

Build up estimates from first principle including net and gross estimates;

Translate measurement from drawings and Specifications and prepare Bills of Quantities and Schedules of rates.

Planning:

Review weekly, monthly, section programmes of works;

Plan commercial activities to meet requirements of section programmes;

Have an understanding of delay and disruption programmes.

Project Management:

Use the companys ERP System; (Confirm / Oracle advantageous although training will be provided)

Collation of Cost and Value Information;

Preparation of Cost reconciliation statements.

Procurement:

Collect information required to specify procurement requirements;

Record and document information including registration of interest;

Understand the steps / documentation required.

Commercial Management:

Undertakes customer and stakeholder management for their area of responsibility;

Collation of cost and value information;

Measurement of works and agreements with subcontractors.

Development, Recruitment and Retention:

Maintain a Personal Development Plan;

Supports the development of others;

Working towards professional membership from the RICS, ICES or CIOB.

Who we're looking for

Personal Qualities and Experience:

The following qualifications are essential:

BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying or experience equivalent.

The following qualities/experience are desirable:

Communication;

Teamwork;

Achievement Focus (Achieving Results);

Previous Commercial Work experience;

Industry knowledge.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

About us

The way we live our lives is changing fast: where and how we live, work, travel, shop, relax and socialise. The evolving nature of our society means we all need to shape our environment to meet a complex array of individual and collective needs.

Living Places works in partnership with Local Authorities to consult, finance, design, build and manage the essential place infrastructure that local communities and national economies need to prosper and grow.

We are right at the heart of a dynamic place shaping agenda that brings Local Authorities, local communities, Central Government, and the Private Sector together to create safe, sustainable, flexible and dynamic public spaces geared to community social need, economic growth and personal well-being as well as being environmentally sustainable.

The provision of maintenance services for highways is only a small part of what is really needed. Our focus has moved beyond the road to deliver the potential of the street: a dynamic public place that connects and combines local community and business needs, encourages social interaction and helps pedestrians, motorists, bus riders, and cyclists to coexist safely. Building great public spaces with resource efficient assets enables functional, flexible and inspirational places to be at the heart of the community.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at