Description About the job. We are expanding our commercial management team to support National Highways’ annual £1bn investment programme to maintain the Strategic Road Network. As part of this, we have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Quantity Surveyor to join our team. You will support (and in some cases lead) commercial and contract management of schemes of value from £1m to more than £30m for both construction and design works. The complex nature and diversity of the portfolio ensures the opportunity for you to develop new skills and capabilities, whether you are working towards gaining Chartered Surveyor status, or simply seeking to enhance your experience to date. This role will be based from our Bristol office. You will be responsible for: Assisting in the preparation of budget estimates and target prices in line with contract from project inception to target agreement. Supply Chain management and monthly payment assessment, including sending enquiry documentation, quotation assessment, task order award and instructions to supply chain where required. Preparing scheme forecasts and/or monitor actual cost against targets. Ensure scheme cost and value reconciliation is performed to ensure correct cost capture has occurred. Assisting in the management of site level change management including early warning and compensation event management and production, both to the Client and to the supply chain as necessary. Maintaining collaborative working relationships with supply chain contractors by responding promptly to communications and arranging meetings as and when needed. About you. Achieved or working towards a degree/HND in quantity surveying or other relevant technical qualification and/or completion of a formally recognised graduate programme, apprenticeship or similar. Working towards member level of a professional organisation such as RICS, ICES, or equivalent. Experience of contract administration, desirably NEC forms of contract. Intermediate level ability in MS Excel (basic formulae, pivot tables, formatting). Good commercial awareness and understanding of commercial management. About us. Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England’s motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership. Operations is at the heart of keeping the strategic road network moving and ensuring our customers get the best possible experience when using our roads. We address over 39,000 customer enquiries every month, plan and deliver all maintenance activities on the network, drive efficiencies and improvements across our systems and roads, and respond to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads that we manage. All to make sure National Highways customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys. External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy. We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.