Managing Quantity Surveyor

Role Purpose:

• To ensure commercial & contractual control and co-ordination of the efforts of all parties involved in the execution of a range of specified projects.
• To manage a small team of quantity surveyors on a single large project or across a number of projects, depending upon location and work type.
• To provide guidance to other members of the Commercial/quantity surveying team and Project Directors/Managers on all aspects relating to commercial activity on the specified projects.

What you'll be doing

As a Managing Quantity Surveyor, you will:

• Ensure all duties are carried out in accordance with standard company HSE procedures and work instructions.
• Accountable for the activities of directly reporting quantity surveying staff, providing advice and guidance to other members of the team and to Project Directors/Managers, as required.
• In conjunction with the relevant Project Management team member(s), be accountable for the profitability of the project(s) and develop an appropriate commercial strategy for the project(s) to ensure delivery of required margins.
• Contribute to the management and maintenance of a contract cost reporting system, ensuring all financial information is managed and up-to-date and tracked with budget/tender allowances, commitments and deviations highlighted and managed.
• With other members of the team, produce and provide accurate forecasts of project cost to completion and final value.
• Continually monitor projected costs to completion in line with budget.
• Ensure that necessary interface information between customer, subcontractors and other departments is provided in a timely manner.
• Pro-actively monitor cash flow and valuation plan, ensuring applications are made correctly and in a timely manner.
• Ensure contract variations are identified, valued and turned into agreed variation orders with the customer in a timely manner.
• Assist in ensuring effective records are maintained to support claims and that applications for payment for variations are issued in a timely manner.
• Manage the subcontract tender process, including the selection of sub-contractors and provision of all relevant contract and schedule documentation.
• Ensure that subcontracts are placed in an appropriate manner to step down appropriate responsibilities from the Main Contract.
• Ensure that each sub-contractor’s account is managed strictly in accordance with their terms and conditions.
• Ensure that any insurance claims are notified in accordance with requirements and that appropriate data is compiled for insurance claims.
• Take an active role in assisting the Project Management team member(s) in arranging and undertaking project reviews and issue of associated reports.
• Provide accurate monthly reporting of cost and value on the project(s) in line with the Company’s reporting process.
• Be responsible for the preparation and agreement of final accounts.
• Agree and resolve final accounts with sub-contractors.
• Ensure compliance with BMS and Group Minimum Commercial Expectations.
• Where appropriate and where used on the specified project, utilise BIM to support progress monitoring, provide commercial reporting and incorporate information to support change management, variations orders and encourage all sub-contractors/ supply chain members to integrate their work into BIM.
• Support the delivery of Sustainability activities.