Senior Quantity Surveyor

Description and requirements

Our Skanska Costain STRABAG joint venture team is working in partnership with HS2 to deliver the new London tunnels from Euston to West Ruislip. Our joint venture team is working on sites at Euston, Old Oak Common and West Ruislip, building tunnels 13 miles long and up to 50m deep, supporting delivery of HS2 phase one.

We are looking for A Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our HS2 team onsite in London.

The Senior Quantity Surveyor will be self-motivated, disciplined and commercially astute with the ability to identify, analyse and develop responses to commercial risks. The role will require excellent communication and customer facing skills along with working as part of a team promoting our culture and values. You will consider problems as a challenge, collect information relevant to the problem, be disciplined in ascertaining the root cause, identify and develop a practical solution, communicate the findings, and implement action to resolve the problem.

Main Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the efficient and effective management and issue of accurate, timely and contract compliant documentation.
• Work closely with project management and engineering teams and liaise with Employers commercial team and client team.
• Produce documentation / evidence to demonstrate KPI achievement.
• Progress continuous own professional development.
• Competent in the application of IT skills to commercial management and the production of project documentation.
• Demonstrate and maintain commercial and technical knowledge and work closely with technical staff to develop appropriate techniques and solutions for the project.
• Assist with preparation of periodic progress valuations and claims for work completed.
• Produce monthly cost reports, forecasts, and contract budget reports.
• Maintain effective, accurate cost control.
• Ensure contractual and commercial risks and opportunities for realising efficiencies are identified to the Project and Commercial Managers.
• Ensure risk registers and contingency are accurately maintained.
• Review value management proposals.
• Effective and consistent implementation of the SCS Commercial Policy and procedures.
• Identify and provide appropriate, timely information to support change control process.
• Support procurement team through tenders including producing subcontract documentation.
• Manage subcontracts from initial placement of order to final account.
• Prepare, review and complete sub-contract documentation.
• Prepare and agree interim applications for payment.
• Prepare and agree final accounts with subcontractor.
• Maintain registers of variations, delay, extension times and claims.
• Understand the Client and Joint Venture Partners' Environment and Sustainability Policies, Processes, and statutory requirements as they affect the company's operations and ensure that the requirements, as applicable within their discipline, are implemented on the project.

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

• Relevant Degree in Quantity Surveying or equivalent relevant industry experience.
• Advanced knowledge in Microsoft Excel.
• Right to Work in the UK.

Desirable:

• Strong contract experience.
• Experience with Power BI.
• Experience in rail or infrastructure projects.
• Problem solving can-do approach.
• Proactive.

Equal opportunities

We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic - we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.

Flexible working

We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.

Reasonable adjustments

We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.

More information about the role

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Closing date

The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business.