Senior Quantity Surveyor

Take full commercial responsibility and ownership for the project, working closely with the Contracts Manager/Project Manager and the construction team to ensure a successful project is delivered, while maintaining relationships and maximising commercial returns and managing risk.,

• Integrate the commercial strategy, amending with MQS to suit project as it develops.


• Liaise with & commercially influence/challenge the other members of the team and the construction process.


• Take ownership for, administer & represent the company in commercial & contractual issues, including but not limited to:

+ Preparing tenders, analysing, selecting appropriate s/c & finalising s/c orders, financial & commercially manage to Final Account completion.
+ Prepare & present forecasts, targets & CV reconciliations.
+ Prepare & agree valuations, including generating certificates & invoice/payments.
+ Variations prepare with adequate/appropriate records, agree as works progress.
+ Update projected Final Accounts on regular basis and prepare, submit & agree Final Account in a timely manner.
+ Involvement in value engineering & design development

• Maintain & protect JSS commercial & contractual entitlement


• Prelim controls/monitoring - establish & maintain


• Site records/admin & document control


• Insurance & warranties


• Risk/opportunity

+ Review & update project risk/opportunity plan, monitoring for changes & consider within any forecast reports
+ Manage risk arising
+ Manage opportunity

• CVR - Maintain an independent view in commercial reporting following the Valuation Policy


• Manage & oversee the junior commercial staff.


• Tender - Support & work with the pre-construction department in tenders & 2-stage tenders


• Cash management - ensure timely payment & adequate cash management positions are maintained


• Involvement with & take responsibility for:

+ D&B contracts
+ Contracts £1-5m
+ Claims & disputes
+ Interpretation of contract low

• Take ownership for specific deliverables as advised by the MQS
  
  Ability to communicate articulately, both verbally & in writing


• Manage both people & situations sensitively & to commercial advantage.


• Commercially inventive & astute


• Demonstrate ownership and commercial awareness


• Effective time management, organisational, interpersonal and negotiation skills


• Have experience mentoring and managing others


• Is able to balance the need to be assertive and pragmatic, when dealing with a broad range of stakeholders


• Able to manage a complex project and/or multiple projects and is responsible for project Delivery Teams


• Able to draft contractual and commercially sensitive correspondence and reports and doing so on a regular basis


• Will have led the commercial delivery of a large project or a section of a major project with a team of Quality Surveyors


• Effectively tailors communications to local audiences and can articulate complex ideas and facts into a simple structure in most situations


• Can provide detailed advice on contract conditions, undertake tender scrutiny/vetts, identify issues that require legal advice, and manage the resolution of contractual issues. Has a detailed working knowledge of bonds, guarantees, warranties, insurances, letters of intent and other common contractual mechanisms


• Lead the procurement, negotiation and letting of complex sub-contracts. Can supervise the preparation of documents for complex main contracts, Commercial appreciation


• Behavioural Based Safety (BBS)


• Leadership & delegation skills


• Introduction to management


• Legal appreciation / overview


• CPD - Legislation & Industry Trends


• CVR appreciation


• Presentation & communication skills


• Network rail NR contracts, JCT & NEC


Desirable Qualifications/Training

• CICES/RICS


• CSCS Card
  
  John Sisk & Son have been building excellence as a family-owned international construction company by offering trust, certainty and value to our clients whilst being at the heart of change.
  
  Competitive Salary with yearly increase


• Company Car or Car Allowance


• Healthcare


• 26 days holiday (option to purchase 5 more)


• Employer pension


• Death in service - life assurance


• Competitive mileage rate


• Travel expenses


• Flexible and remote working


• Enhanced parental leave


• Professional and Educational development


Our people are at the heart of our success and our proposition to them is work with purpose, have time for life, build a career with no limits and surround yourself with great people.