Quantity Surveyor – Highways
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Salary: £45000 - £55000
Location: Manchester
Regions: Manchester, North West
A Major Main Contractor is currently looking to recruit a Senior Quantity Surveyor to work on a term maintenance contract based in Manchester.
Reporting directly to the Commercial Manager responsible for 2-3 Assistant/Quantity Surveyors.
The successful post-holder's prime function is to increase value, reduce cost, drive profit, and manage risk in a safe and ethical manner on the contracts they are working on.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Line management and integration of new team members where appropriate.
2. Ensure cash flow is maximized, including ensuring payments are received on time.
3. Provide commercial input including financial and contractual performance forecasts to the management team.
4. Help ensure that business targets and KPIs are exceeded.
5. Preparation of monthly cost/value reports for the area, together with review of results and consideration of trends with other contract team members.
6. Production of commercial reports together with review of results and consideration of trends with other contract team members.
7. Physical measurement of works and agreement of same with client and subcontractors.
8. Agreement of certification and payment of subcontractor accounts – monitoring of such accounts against forecasts.
9. Implementation and compliance with the contract change control procedure and monitoring thereof including notices to client as appropriate.
10. Commercial and contractual advice to area team as and when required.
11. Managing sub-contractors including sending out enquiries, collating prices, comparing with tender, negotiation, order placement, agreement of account and payment.
12. Carry out any other duties not identified above and as required by their manager.
Essential Experience:
To be considered for this role you must have experience of working for a sub/main contractor on a civil engineering project in the UK in a commercial role. Unfortunately, without this, you will not be considered for the role.
Desirable Key Skills and Qualifications:
HNC/HND/Degree in Quantity Surveying/Commercial Management.
Excellent IT skills including MS Office and in particular Excel.
Excellent communication skills both written and verbally.
Must be an excellent organiser with proven time management skills.
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