Quantity Surveyor

Job title:

Quantity Surveyor

Company

Balfour Beatty

Job description

About the roleOwn your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick team as a Quantity Surveyor for our project in Plymouth and you’ll work with true experts who’ll share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning. Bring us your capability, and we’ll help you take it much, much further.What you’ll be doingAs a/an Quantity Surveyor, you will have the following accountabilities:

• Has a good knowledge of and adheres to the Company’s GMCEs, BMS and other governance

• Orders information and systematically checks data

• Maximises digital opportunities

• Cost Engineering

• Prepares Activity Schedules, Resource Schedules & analyses tender documents

• Critically appraises, estimates and negotiates the above with 3rd parties

• Reviews complex contract programmes such as Time-Location

• Assists with the preparation of delay and disruption programmes

• Monitors subcontract activities, measure and respond appropriately

• Analyses the commercial progress and report to senior project staff

• Manages commercial aspects with Customer and Stakeholders for their area of responsibility

• Undertakes constructability analyses using construction programmes

• Prepares procurement programme and helps develop the strategy

• Analyses rates & prices, agreement of variations and or compensation events as required

• Undertakes customer and stakeholder management for their area of responsibility

• Prepares, submits and negotiates claims when required

• Prepares Internal reports, commercial progress and financial reconciliation

Who we’re looking forYou will have the following:

• You will have appropriate qualifications, and professional membership of the RICS, CIOB or ICE

• Hold a valid CSCS card.

• Ability to drive and influence people to work to dates / programme

• Ability to break complex matters down and communicate concisely and effectively to Senior Management (written and verbal)

• Exceptional negotiation, leadership and communication skills are required, coupled with an ability to influence through others

• Ability to gain a security clearance.

Why work for usDay in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.Why join us?As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:– Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
– 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
– Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
– Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…About usBalfour Beatty Kilpatrick (BBK) is a market leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions provider with over 100 years of engineering expertise.We design, install and maintain the systems that make building infrastructure work. Emphasising environmentally efficient technologies, digital construction and offsite manufacturing, our experienced teams deliver high quality solutions across the following sectors: Aviation, Buildings, Civils, Defence, Energy and New Build Nuclear.At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality.To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence ‘Employer Recognition Scheme’ and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

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Location

United Kingdom

Job date

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 05:33:16 GMT

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