Quantity Surveyor

Competitive Salary and Benefits Package on Offer

Altrad are a market-leading provider of products and services to the energy, industrial and petrochemical sectors. Our success is built on the quality of our people, our reputation for technological expertise and best-in-class execution, and the collaborative relationships we establish with our clients. We believe in delivering exceptional value for our clients and creating unrivalled opportunities for our people.

Continuing our success in the nuclear industry, we are now growing our team in Cumbria, delivering more crucial, decommissioning activities and major infrastructure projects.

We’re actively looking for a experienced Quantity Surveyor’s to work on a range of complex nuclear decommissioning and new build work here in Cumbria.

As an employer, Altrad can offer unrivalled career opportunities across the UK. We’re deeply embedded and respected within the UK’s vibrant Nuclear industry, a respect forged over 65 years of work, from providing technology for the world’s first commercial nuclear power plant, to the decommissioning of the UK’s legacy nuclear infrastructure, and everything in between. Outside of Nuclear, our Thermal, Petrochemical, Oil & Gas, and Asset Management services, deliver equally crucial work for an even wider range of clients.

As a business, we can offer opportunities across multiple markets, sectors and geographies, giving you the chance to work on some of the UK’s most complex and challenging projects, as a part of the ever growing and ever talented, Altrad team.

• You will deliver commercial tasks as directed in order to support the Company in achieving a successful financial outcome on projects.
• You’ll have gained some professional experience in quantity surveying/commercial management and will be able to work with a minimum of supervision.
• You will be tasked with delivery of allotted commercial activities as assigned by a more senior member of the commercial team. Work can be executed independently in a specific or narrow field (e.g. sole responsibility for the commercial function on a small project) or as part of a team (e.g. as part of a project team on a significant project), though all work is subject to review and approval by a more senior member of the commercial team.
• You will interpret and assimilate commercial information using this to produce required reports, documentation and support management decision making.

• Execution: Use company-wide Business Operating Procedures (BOPs) and commercial policies and procedures, standards and working practices to manage commercial activity (e.g. valuation of work, processing of changes to time) to support the company realising optimum commercial value in all activity.
• Governance: Comply with national laws/regulations and adhere to company-wide & commercial BOPs to ensure that commercial management activity is conducted in line with standardised working procedures. Provide accurate forecasting and reporting of commercial metrics to facilitate management decision making.
• Innovation: look for opportunities for efficiency savings and development as well as contributing to project reviews/lessons learnt in order to contribute to a culture of continuous improvement.
• Communication: Build and maintain an internal and external (client) relationship network in order to leverage expertise, contribute to decision making and satisfy stakeholder requirements.
• People Development: Take accountability for their own personal Professional Development Record as part of Altrad Babcock's talent management ethos. Mentor and provide guidance to more junior members of staff related to technical execution of their roles to support the development of the next level of talent within the organisation.

• Working towards a Degree in Quantity Surveying or equivalent experience in commercial /contract management
• Membership of/commitment to or studying for Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) qualifications or other relevant equivalent professional qualification

• Typically 3 years experience where knowledge of engineering was a key attribute.
• Worked within a highly regulated and quality assured system where design and engineering was a major part of the role.
• Awareness of laws, regulations, processes and procedures appropriate to the area supported.

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