Senior Quantity Surveyor

You will be a Senior 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.

• 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.

• 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

• Driving improvements in the accuracy of forecasts and budgets

• Proactively providing sound commercial knowledge and support to all stakeholders

• Ensuring that final accounts are negotiated and agreed

• Commission management as needed

Qualifications :

• Qualification in Estimating Quantity Surveying or Cost Engineering

• Experience of working in the Infrastructure (Rail air power highways) sector

Demonstrable and proven experience in:

• Contract Management (NEC3 preferred)

• Change management

• Cost Management

• Procurement

• Estimating

• Governance processing

• Collaborative approaches

• Line management

• Commission management

• Excellent and flexible skills in Microsoft Office Suite (MS Excel Work 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 :

Working in teams/ Office & Site attendance:

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.

The office is not the only place work gets done but it is increasingly important for teams to be stronger together by learning collaborating and creating amazing work together

Security Clearance

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).
Many of the clients and projects we support are subject to MoD security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth nationality time out of country current or former citizenship and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - ().

Person focus

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.

Values & Behaviours:

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

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