Quantity Surveyor

About The Role

Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a terrific opportunity for a Quantity Surveyor to join our £1.2 billion Lower Thames Crossing project
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The Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) is a major UK infrastructure project. LTC is a new road that will connect Kent and Essex through a tunnel beneath the River Thames and will be the greenest road ever built in the UK, creating six times more green space than a road. The reliable new route will almost double road capacity over the river east of London to reduce congestion and give millions of people more choice on where they live, work and spend their valuable time.

As a Quantity Surveyor
, you will be supporting other more senior members of the commercial team in delivering the varied commercial duties as well as being responsible for procuring and managing our supply chain.

• 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 company’s ERP system; 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 and documentation required
• Commercial Management: collation of cost and value information; measurement of works and agreements with subcontractors
• Development, Recruitment and Retention: maintain a personal development plan; support the development of others; working towards professional membership from the RICS, ICES or CIOB

The Following Experience/Qualifications Are Required

• BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying or experience equivalent

The Following Experience/Qualifications Are Desirable

• Communication skills
• Teamwork
• Achievement Focused (Achieving Results)
• Previous commercial work experience
• Industry knowledge

Still interested? then come and become colleagues with 26,000 staff and join a business which recorded 8.6bn in revenues last year, achieved industry leading customer satisfaction scores and has unrivalled employee engagement statistics.

• An attractive / negotiated salary
• 42 core base hours per week
• 25 days annual leave
• Pension savings schemes
• A whole host of other BB staff employee benefits (discounts, exclusive offers etc)
• Refer a friend bonus scheme
• Scores of other Balfour Beatty opportunities available as well via our  portal.

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a…