We’re recruiting for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our Anglian Water, Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA) framework.

Role overview

Support the delivery team and Projects Commercial Manger to deliver projects under budget to increase gainshare
Work with the procurement team to ensure the AW Procurement Policy is followed and ‘best for task’ approach is adhered to with the Procurement Strategy.
Provide delivery teams with commercial support and training requirements, including risk & opportunity, change management, contract management.
Management of subcontract accounts – from drafting and agreement to payment and final accounts

Key responsibilities:

Responsible for project commercial deliverables.

Support and develop the commercial team within the region to succeed, add value and support the commercial function

Work alongside the Regional Delivery Manager / Senior Contracts Manager to deliver projects within budget.

Provide delivery teams with commercial support and training requirements.
Accurate Forecasting:

Project updates including forecast expenditure, programme updates, supply chain disputes, change management, contract management

Scope and forecast/costs

Run earned value process and support delivery teams with cost info for budget setting via plan for stage process

Work with the procurement team to support in supply chain negotiations and contract drafting

Project level including, change management and reporting up to programme level.
Management of subcontract accounts – from drafting and agreement to payment and final accounts

Candidate Specification

Experienced in delivering large scale projects incl civil, mechanical, infrastructure and non-infrastructure type work.
Adaptable to the changing methodology of commercial management with the creation of new digital reporting requirements.
Proactive about new ways of working, problem solving and continuous improvement

Able to lead by example and develop their team’s skills and experience
Confident dealing with stakeholders from different disciplines to establish complete commercial understanding
Confident to challenge the wider project team’s view on scope and hold them accountable for deliverables

About Costain

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.

Your application

Should you require any adjustments to support you in your application, please do not hesitate to contact us: careers@costain.com

We welcome all applicants regardless of age, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, socioeconomic background and physical or neurological disabilities.

We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need for dynamic working. Such as, working part-time, remote working, or compressed hours. In return, we will explore what is possible.

To find out more about our Inclusion strategy, please visit our ED&I page:

https://www.costain.com/our-culture/equality-diversity-and-inclusion/

Right to Work & Security Checks

Understandably given the nature of our business, everyone who is employed at Costain must undergo thorough referencing checks. We will need different information depending on the job we have offered you. For all roles, we’ll carry out a criminal record check and we’ll ask to see evidence that you have the legal right to work in the UK.

For some of our roles, you may be required to obtain and maintain security clearance of at least Security Check level (or SC clearance). To satisfy the requirements, you will need to have been a legal UK resident for a minimum of 5 years and have successfully complete all stages of the vetting process.

Closing date

Please note that Costain reserves the right to bring forward the closing date of any of its job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend at you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date.

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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.

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