Quantity Surveyor

Job Description

Area 14 Maintenance & Response Contract is a joint venture between Costain and Jacobs (CHC) to provide a maintenance and response service for National Highways on the Strategic Road Network in Area 14 which is in the North‑East of England. As part of this service CHC undertakes cyclical maintenance, reactive maintenance, incident response, severe weather response and minor capital interventions (scheme works).

The role is to support the team in the management of the works, including management of the main and subcontract accounts, providing commercial and contractual advice, seeking opportunities to deliver increased margin and providing coaching and support for the team members.

• Subcontract Management including procurement, auditing, payments, change management, earned value reporting, forecasting, performance monitoring, monthly meetings, final accounts, etc.
• Ensure timescales for contract administration, commitments, actions and deliverables are met.
• Identification of the EW/CE’s & pricing of contract change.
• Producing budget estimates for the client.
• Collation/Submission of required evidence for main contract application for payment.
• Assist with internal reporting.
• Engage and assist team members in seeking personal development opportunities.
• Supporting a graduate QS.

• Advanced Excel use.
• Team player.
• Driven and thorough.
• Analytical with good problem solving skills.
• Good presentation skills and attention to detail.
• NEC Contract experience.
• Inquisitive.
• Driving licence.

• Civils QS experience.
• Maintenance & Response experience.
• Use of CEMAR.
• Use of Confirm (Brightly).
• Working towards RICS/CICES.

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading‑edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue‑chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements.

We offer our clients leading‑edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future‑shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

Costain appreciates the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at the application phase. We do share individual feedback following an interview. A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that discloses they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.

It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high‑volume, seasonal and high‑peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non‑disabled people. For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:

Seniority level:
Entry level;

Employment type:

Full‑time;
Job function:
Management and Manufacturing;
Industry: Civil Engineering.