Senior Quantity Surveyor

Based in Reading, this full-time Senior Quantity Surveyor role with Pertemps Thames Water offers a competitive salary between £65,000 and £75,000, dependent on experience. You will lead a team of surveyors, providing commercial assurance across major project contracts. Responsibilities include advising delivery teams on contractual matters, challenging tenders, and ensuring timely payments. The portfolio features schemes valued from £25,000 up to £200 million, offering considerable variety.

Your focus will be on securing value for money while maintaining strict compliance. This position suits a professional adept at team management and commercial strategy within large-scale infrastructure.

• Providing Commercial Assurance of Major Projects and Programmes Contracts.
• Providing Contractual advice and support to Delivery Teams.
• Management of Team Members.
• Accountable for ensuring that the team carries out the following.
• Challenging and agreeing on Project Tenders
• Ensuring that payments are made on time and in accordance with the Contract
• Assessing the Quantum of Change and/or Extension of Time
• Data Collection of Projects
• Auditing and agreeing on Project Accounts
• Ensuring that appropriate processes are in place and monitored for your Delivery Area to ensure that Contractual Compliance is maintained and advising stakeholders if any non-performance is identified and corrective actions implemented as necessary.
• Advising and supporting the management and optimisation of budgets and spending on the portfolio of Projects.
• Data Collection of the relevant Contracts on the assigned portfolio.
• Supporting the Principal and Managing Quantity Surveyor with the resolution of Claims as necessary.

• Have extensive experience in commercially managing a portfolio of projects, both pre- and post-contract.
• Have recent experience in managing a QS Team.
• Hold a degree in Quantity Surveying or equivalent.
• Have strong Communication and Stakeholder Management skills.
• Be confident in negotiation and have applied dispute resolution skills.
• Knowledge of water regulation. (incl. OFWAT Price Review methodology)
• Knowledge of Risks associated with the delivery of projects and contracts.
• Self-starter, resilient and tenacious under pressure.
• Hold a full UK Driving license and have your own transport.

• Competitive salary from £65,000 to £75,000 per annum, depending on experience.
• Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
• Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets.
• Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
• Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.
• Find out more about our benefits and perks (Please note different T&Cs apply if on secondment).

• Base
  
  Location:
  
  Reading – Hybrid. Maple Lodge – Hybrid.
• Working Pattern or hours: 36 hours

We’re the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people, and the planet to thrive. It’s a big job, and we’ve got a long way to go, so we need help from passionate and skilled people, committed to making a difference and getting us to where we want to be in the years and decades to come.

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