Senior Quantity Surveyor

Overview

Working within Aureos’s SPN Business Unit, and forming a part of the Commercial team, the Senior Quantity Surveyor plays an integral part in delivering exceptional commercial results. Core responsibilities encompass project delivery, commercial reporting and maximising profit.

Aureos SPN work collaboratively with our customers to deliver critical national infrastructure projects across the UK. Our goals are to:

• Grow: turnover, margin and customer satisfaction
• Improve: operational delivery, reliability and outcomes
• Sustain: our people, communities and the environment

Aureos’s Action Agenda – Unleashing our potential, a business-wide strategy focusing on seven key priorities:

• Sustainable innovation
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  Embedding sustainable improvements with an aim to be net zero
• Structure and Governance
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  Through monthly Performance review meetings and clear delegation of authority
• Business Development and Customer Relationship Management
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  Growing into new markets and developing relationships and strategies with new and existing customers
• Safety, Health and Wellbeing
  : implementing tiers of H&S management and bring the operational input to the fore
• People and inclusion
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  With specific training and succession planning
• Operational effectiveness
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  Enhancing our capabilities and strengthening the existing core of the business
• Digitisation
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  Through an internal Programme Management office, lean tools, and digital platforms.

With sustainable growth in mind, our Senior Quantity Surveyor is responsible for assisting the commercial team in completing and maintaining well organised records, contribution to the timely production of applications for payment and accurate project reporting.

Primary tasks and duties:

Reporting to the Regional Commercial Manager, you will assist the commercial team in providing support to the contract delivery team to ensure the profitability, cash management, cost control and accurate reporting of all schemes. Your role will require you to:

• Management of application and credit control processes
• Management of optimisation of income
• Management of all processes regarding costing and forecasting
• Management of change control system
• Input into the management of project risk
• Management of CTC and CVRs
• Management of the full sub-contract cycle
• Provision of commercial advice to Project Team
• Development of team spirit and trustworthiness within Project Commercial Team and with Client and S/C
• Management of dispute resolution
• Communications within the Project Commercial Team and with the Project Team
• Management of Training plans
• Input into the tendering process

Secondary tasks and duties:

We operate a team ethos across the SPN Business Unit and strive to assist colleagues in the execution of their duties where this is appropriate and brings added value. The Senior Quantity Surveyor is responsible for the following in this respect:

• Ensure that the group commercial policies are adhered to and that the requirements of legislation are met
• Manage commercial performance against business targets and KPI’s
• Working with the commercial and operational teams to strive for continuous improvement
• Promote a culture of integration, continuous improvement and use of best practice across the client base
• Assisting with the use of key lean tools to drive efficiencies and reduce waste
• Encourage, support and assist with the delivery of successful collaborative planning with the contract delivery teams
• Commitment to their own professional development, and that of others across the Business Unit
• Other tasks appropriate to the role of Senior Quantity Surveyor, as identified by Regional Commercial Manager/Commercial Manager

Aureos SPN expects all employees to conduct themselves in a safe professional manner, applying the following key behaviours across all aspects of their work.

• Trust and respect
• We act with integrity and treat everyone with respect.
• We have an open and honest working environment in which everyone contributes effectively
• We deliver on our commitments and support others across our team to deliver on theirs
• Accountability and decision making

We ensure responsibilities are clearly defined and fulfilled, and that performance is managed fairly.

• Everyone knows what is expected of them and how their job fits into the bigger picture
• We include the right people in the right conversations, making decisions in an effective and timely manner; we take accountability for our actions and ownership of the outcomes
• Communication and engagement

We are a high performing, collaborative team of effective communicators.

• We willingly share information across the team to the benefit of all
• When communicating, we provide clarity and seek feedback to ensure understanding

We are open to challenge and welcome diversity of opinion.

• We welcome the opinions of others, even when they differ from our own
• We challenge in a constructive and professional manner to promote success

Improvement and innovation

• We challenge the status quo to find better ways of working.
• Everyone in the team…