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JR266: Senior Quantity SurveyorLocation: SnowdoniaSalary: £65,000 Per Annum + £5,750 Car AllowanceOverview:First Military Executive Recruitment are currently seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor on behalf of one of our prestigious clients based on significant civils projects in Swindon.The key purpose of this role will be will join a commercial team and is likely to report to the Commercial Lead and to be responsible for sub-contract management of projects. The successful candidate will likely have extensive Tier 1 civils contractor experience in subcontractor management.Applications from ex-military candidates are actively encouraged, however all qualified candidates will be given due consideration.Duties and Responsibilities:
- Management of change process.
- Identifying change with the project team.
- Ascertaining and subsequently demonstrating contractual entitlement to change.
- Preparation of notices to the client of change entitlement as requirement by the contract.
- Valuing change to ensure all costs associated with the change are recovered through a target uplift.
- Interfacing with the project team (particularly Project Managers and Planners).
- Maintenance of an up to date change control register (weekly) showing status of all change i.e: notice submitted to client, response received, programme assessed, quote submitted.
- Reviewing contractual correspondence from the client in order to identify change and reviewing of instructions issued by client in order to determine their sufficiency and correctness.
- Preparation of early warning notices for any potential future change and organising subsequent risk reduction meeting.
- Maintenance of early warning register.
- Interfacing with client in order to demonstrate entitlement to change.
- A secondary responsibility is to provide commercial support / advice to Project Managers.
- Promote high safety standards.
- Report any close calls or unsafe acts / conditions observed.
Skills and Qualifications:
- Degree qualified.
- CSCS card.
- Civil engineering projects experience is essential.
- Experience of forms of contract used in civil engineering and experience on Target Cost contracts.
- Change control management knowledge is a must.
- Must be self motivated with initiative to manage all change on the project.
- Must have good client interfacing skills in order to build mutual respect and trust.
- Must be a good team player and be able to work with different personalities across the project in order to identify change and value it.
- Must have good communications skills, particularly written communication as the role will involve writing numerous communications and preparing documents demonstrating entitlement to change to the client.
- MRICS / MCIOB / MCIES would be advantageous.
Location: SnowdoniaSalary: £65,000 Per Annum + £5,750 Car Allowance
