Quantity Surveyor

UK Power Networks (Operations) Ltd

78354 – Quantity Surveyor

This Quantity Surveyor will report to the Commercial Lead and will work within Capital Programme – Asset Portfolio Plan based in our Bury St Edmunds office. You will be a permanent employee. This role can also offer blended working after probationary period (6 months) – 3 days in the office and 2 remote

You will attract a salary of 58,229 plus car and a bonus of 3%

Close Date:.13/02/2024 All applications will be reviewed after the close date.

We also provide the following additional benefits

• Annual Leave
• Personal Pension Plan – Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%)
• Tenancy Loan Deposit scheme
• Tax efficient benefits: cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Occupational Health support
• Switched On – scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers products.
• Discounted access to sports and social clubs
• Employee Assistance Programme.

Job Purpose

To assist the Commercial Manager and the wider commercial team in providing professional quantity surveying support to the Capital Programme and Procurement Delivery across several long-term contracts.

To manage commercial matters for those contracts and projects with regards to contract set-up, management, pricing, service delivery, scope change and dispute resolution to ensure contract requirements are compliant with standards and co-ordinated to maximise profit delivery.

To support a wider project team, variously comprising Programme Managers; Project Managers; Designers; P6 Planners; Consents Surveyors and Administrators.

Responsibilities:

• To be commercial lead, or for larger projects to provide support, on a portfolio of client construction projects.
• To comply with all UKPN guidelines, our goals and procedures, and to identify and report areas of non-conformance to the Regional Commercial Manager and wider commercial management team.
• Ensure that the project delivery team have acted following the Contract.
• Collaborate with all external and company partners to allow the projects to progress without delay, ensuring that all reasonable requests are met in an organised manner, under the guidance of the wider commercial team.
• Help prepare activity schedules and the presentation of tender documentation, attending interviews and carrying out full tender analysis and comparisons to fixed rates.
• Work with the Portfolio Manager; Programme Managers, Senior Project Managers, Project Managers and P6 Planners to deliver advice and support, to ensure that the projects are managed following the contract and meeting reporting deadlines.
• Manage a programme of current workload, in order that all contracts receive the relevant allocation of resource to manage them commercially.
• To assist the Commercial Manager and Senior Quantity Surveyor in providing guidance to junior members of staff,
• Demonstrate belief and understanding to the team and create confidence even when faced with setbacks. .
• Produce quality reports questioning the decisions and directions of others if necessary.
• Assess contractor applications and EWN’s and CE’s, making recommendations to, raising payment certificates for and preparing general correspondence on behalf of the Project Managers to ensure that only legitimate monies are certified.
• Collaborate with the Project Managers to update the risk registers and add in new risks arising from the aforementioned EWN’s and CE’s.
• Identify principal risks and opportunities, raise, addresses and resolve problems at a project level and supports the project delivery team, maintains a schedule of potential costs for the projects.
• To advise others regarding the application of the different forms of contract in use within UKPN, predominantly being NEC3.
• Manage change control procedures within each specific contract and ensuring that they are followed by all parties.
• Become involved in the relevant Annual rate reviews.
• Review Principal / Main Contractors Subcontracts and identify where clauses are in breach of Partner policies, making recommendations to achieve compliance.
• Work with the Senior Project Managers, Project Managers other commercial staff and the Regional Commercial Manager to resolve any contract issues, and in the event of a dispute arising to help prepare the required documentation to justify and strengthen our contractual position.
• Consider alternative strategies for dispute resolution of moderate complexity and prepare written arguments from a claimant or defendant perspective, making recommendations to important UKPN partners on the preferred option.
• Collaborate with internal and external legal advisors.

Qualifications:

• Quantity surveying experience and a track record in managing complex, high value and varied contracts from a quantity surveying perspective.
• Degree qualified in quantity surveying or other relevant business discipline
• Non degree holders may be considered if they have a record of success with experience in similar roles.
• Professional qualification or membership of the RICS, CIOB, ICES or other relevant Chartered Institute would be an additional advantage.
• Experienced in using Word, Excel, PowerPoint to an intermediate / advanced level and SAP.
• A quantity surveying professional
• Be concise when dealing with management
• Analysis is required to make informed, balanced decisions and report findings back to Clients and company partners.
• Experience building relationships with both service providers and company partners – including the confidence and stature to work with executives and other senior managers.
• Team working skills.
• Institution of Occupational Safety & Health (IOSH) Certificate would be advantageous, although specific Health & Safety training will be given.

Should you not have the full range of essential skills, qualifications and competencies listed above, there may be an opportunity for further training to equip you. If you do not have all relevant competencies for the core grade, it will be appropriate to appoint at a lower grade until you have developed the required competencies.