Job Description
Are you a skilled Quantity Surveyor looking to elevate your career? Or an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor seeking your next challenge?
Join us at Long O Donnell, a trusted consultancy renowned for delivering outstanding commercial services across energy and infrastructure sectors. We’re expanding our team to support major projects within the power and utilities industry, offering exciting opportunities for motivated professionals.
The Role:
We are hiring both Senior Quantity Surveyors and Quantity Surveyors to work on transformative energy projects, delivering best-in-class cost management, commercial expertise, and project solutions.
Duties:
1. To fully comply with all client and company guidelines, business objectives and procedures, identifying and reporting areas of non-conformance to the wider commercial management team.
2. Responsible for liaising with all external and internal stakeholders to enable the projects to progress without delay, ensuring that all reasonable requests are met in a timely efficient manner.
3. To prepare pricing models from first principals for projects of moderate complexity, and obtain, extract and use existing CU data, together with obtaining cost data from industry recognised publications e.g. SPONS & BCIS to price schemes.
4. Able to assist in the preparation of activity schedules based upon NEC3 and the presentation of tender documentation, attending interviews and carrying out full tender analysis and comparisons through to preparing the recommendation report.
5. Interfaces with the Portfolio Managers, Programme Managers, Project Managers and P6 Planners to deliver professional and competent advice and support, to ensure that the projects are managed in accordance with the Contract and meeting the required reporting deadlines.
6. Manage a programme of current workload, in order that all contracts receive the relevant allocation of resource to efficiently commercially manage them.
7. To take the lead in providing guidance to and take responsibility for junior members of staff, allocating workload and ensuring that delivery of each task is achieved in line with the required time and budget constraints.
8. Produce quality reports in a timely, professional and legible manner and follows instructions, questioning the decisions and directions of others where necessary.
9. Preparing and making project specific presentations to the business.
10. Assess contractor applications, 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.
11. Identify principal risks and opportunities, raises, addresses and resolves problems at a project level and supports the project delivery team, maintains a schedule of potential financial implications for the various projects.
12. Responsible for managing and reporting change control procedures within each specific contract and ensuring that they are adhered to by all parties.
13. Consider alternative strategies for dispute resolution of moderate complexity and prepare written arguments from a claimant or defendant perspective, making recommendations to key stakeholders on the preferred option.
About you:
1. Significant quantity surveying experience and business acumen, a demonstrable track record in managing complex, high value and varied contracts from a commercial / quantity surveying perspective.
2. Master’s degree qualified in Quantity Surveying or similar.
3. Desirable to have a Professional qualification and/or membership of the RICS, CIOB, ICES or other relevant Chartered Institute.
4. Experienced in using Word, Excel, PowerPoint to an intermediate / advanced level and SAP.
5. Good work ethic with a focus on producing meaningful and important outputs.
6. A seasoned commercial / quantity surveying professional who has excellent communication, negotiation and presentation skills.
7. Has the ability to communicate with all levels of senior management, and can provide clear and concise communication in all formats.
8. Expert analytical skills to make informed, balanced business decisions and reporting findings back to clients and internal stakeholders.
9. Proven ability of developing and maintaining professional relationships with both service providers and internal stakeholders – including the confidence and stature to work alongside executives and other senior managers.
Why choose Long O Donnell?
Unlike some businesses, we prioritise for the long term and honour our commitments. We are compassionate and inclusive in the way we approach our work, and always look to invest in our people’s futures. Be it a desire to work internationally, a drive to progress, or even a curiosity to operate in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage – providing advice, support and the structure to achieve. That is why so many of us have established and built successful careers here for so long.
We don’t offer just a job we offer a career with clear structured route to progression, and a track record of making international mobility happen with international moves encouraged on a permanent or secondment basis.
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work everyday and that is why we firmly believe equality, diversity and inclusion should be fundamental in creating a successful work force.
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