Quantity Surveyor

My client are looking to recruit an experienced QS to work in the South West area of the country.

Role:
To support the Commercial Team Specialists and Commercial Officers within Construction Commercial to award contracts for Gas Transmission and Integrated Security Solutions (ISS) projects.

The successful candidate will be working with the Commercial Officers, Development Engineers and Project Engineers to ensure QS (Cost Assurance) input to the tender documents. They will cover a range of projects across Gas Transmission and Integrated Security Solutions (ISS). They will also be the key resource in assessment of the activity schedule and schedule of cost components against the EHub estimate.

The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the pre-contract cost assurance process to demonstrate value for money by ensuring that appropriate and robust challenge and review has been applied to project costs through benchmarking and cost assurance activities. They will also support the Project Engineer in the review of the programme.

Key Tasks:
Supporting the pre-contract activities on substation, overhead lines and cables projects, focusing on the cost areas, such as activity schedules, schedule of cost component from developing the tender documents and assessment of tenders

Experience:
* Experience of NEC3 form of contract, preferably options A or C
* Experience in contract management in a Construction environment
* Commercial acumen and supply chain management skills
* Experience of engineering or utility projects
* Ability to use and develop spreadsheets, cost analysis and programme evaluation
* Ability to analyse and evaluate compensation events and variations
* Knowledge of Gas Transmission and/or ISS would be advantageous

There will be an amount of travel in the South West of the country, but this will be dependent on site locations. The base location is flexible depending on where the successful candidate is located.

Hy-phen Limited is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

The Adecco Group UK & Ireland is an Equal Opportunities Employer.