Quantity Surveyor

Discipline:
Project programme and commercial management

Job

Position location:

Cumbria, UK / Warrington, UK / Manchester, UK

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.

As Quantity Surveyor you will be supporting the team within the Environment and Water portfolio.

• Work on the pre-contract tender process including tender assessment and queries and advise on the contract award recommendation report.
• Ensuring robust estimates are provided that are aligned to scope and make allowance for all risks.
• Contracts are properly managed and administered in accordance with contract requirements including compliance with all responses to communications, payments, compensation events and programme submissions etc.
• Ensuring robust budget and cost management is always undertaken, taking a proactive approach, providing solutions with a ‘can do’ attitude.
• Ownership of accurate commercial reporting.
• Proactive management of project and programme risk including ensuring that mitigation plans are in place and implemented.
• Development of strong client relationships across its organisation.
• Administering contracts via CEMAR.
• Make well reasoned, sound and timely decisions based on the needs of the situation, the clients and the team members.
• Have NEC3 or 4 ECC main Option A, C or E extensive experience for project delivery, administration and management.
• Demonstrable understanding and practical application of the NEC3 or 4 ECC main Option A, C or
  
  E.
• Delivered post-contract projects including the commercial management from contract award to final account, e.g. budget and price control, forecast to complete, payment assessments and compensation events.
• Experience of a contract management software, such as CEMAR.
• Travel to and work in the client’s office(s) in North West England.
• Chartered Surveyor (MRICS) or working towards their APC.
• A knowledge and expertise in the water/wastewater industry sector including the Water Industry Act 1991 and the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 section 84.
• Pre-contract tendering experience on the NEC3 or 4 ECC.

Mott Mac Donald’s Advisory and Programme Delivery(APD) unit delivers both project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across the built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health and care sectors.

We deliver tailored solutions that directly address our clients’ key challenges, combining our world-leading project expertise with unrivalled programme delivery capabilities and advisory services.

APD delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity up to £20bn, through the technical disciplines of programme management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, infrastructure finance, management consulting, digital consulting and education, health and care management.

Our multidisciplinary experts help water, wastewater, and government organisations find sustainable, cost-effective solutions to the challenges of climate change, net-zero, water scarcity and environmental protection.

We work with around half of the UK’s regulated water and wastewater companies, and our work stretches across the entire project lifecycle - from pre-contract cost estimating and benchmarking, to post-contract quantity surveying and commercial assurance.

For project and programme management, we deliver…