Assistant Quantity Surveyor

Marlborough Highways

Assistant Quantity Surveyor

Location: Garman Rd Tottenham
Contract: Full-time
Salary: £40,000 based on experience

Ready to take the next step in your commercial career? Marlborough Highways is on the lookout for an ambitious and detail-driven Assistant Quantity Surveyor to join our growing team. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and want to develop your career with a company that values growth, collaboration, and innovation this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

What You’ll Be Doing:

As an Assistant Quantity Surveyor, you ll support the commercial lead across a range of highways contracts and projects. Your responsibilities will include:

• Assisting the commercial lead on contracts (and projects)
• Understanding of the commercial strategy across the contract
• Assisting in the submission of applications for payments and invoices
• Assisting in maximising value entitlement under the contract
• Collating required information of change control in preparation for final accounting
• Ability to carry out site measurement
• Assisting with preparation and updating of the revenue and cash forecasting
• Assisting with monthly cost / value reconciliations and financial reporting as well as cost management across the contract
• Interfacing with all stakeholders

What We’re Looking For:

• Relevant degree (or equivalent)
• Experience within highways and civil engineering sector
• Responsible and methodical with a working knowledge of standard methods of measurement
• Understanding of standard forms of contract (NEC, ICC and associated subcontracts)
• Good communication and negotiation skills with strong IT skills
• Flexibility to adapt to hours necessary to perform within this role
• Demonstrable level of commercial acumen
• Self motivated and confident working with minimal supervision and as part of a wider team as required
• Ability to work across multiple divisions and different principles of a term maintenance contract
• Confident building good relationships with both clients and supply chain
• Comfortable in a fast paced environment with the ability to manage more than one contract (or project) as required
• Current driving licence as there is a requirement for regular travel

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Employer Pension Scheme
• Medicash cover including 24 hr GP services
• Employee Wellbeing Service
• Death in Service Cover
• Employee Recognition Programme
• On Site Parking

About Marlborough Highways

Marlborough is a dynamic, independent civil engineering company with 30 years experience in every aspect of traditional and contemporary civil engineering work.

We have a pool of over 480 multi-skilled, longstanding staff, and our own dedicated in-house Project Managers. Members of our leadership team get involved from day one and are always on-hand to provide exceptional customer care.

We are a multi-discipline contractor, specialising in full-service highway and public space maintenance, improvement and construction; delivering services to London Boroughs, Local Authorities and the supply chain.