About the Company
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Our Client is a leading building, infrastructure, and engineering company that has many first-class projects across the UK covering a wide range of sectors in the industry.
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Quantity Surveyor with experience within Water/ Wastewater Projects. This project is a 12-18 month contract based in Reading with the potential of other sites being added. This Role is based inside IR35.
Responsibilities
* Coordinating with, reporting to, and implementing the reasonable directives of the Regional Director/Manager and the Commercial Manager (functional reporting).
* Ensuring the timely submission of all relevant data required to monitor and analyze individual contract performance on a monthly and quarterly basis thereafter.
* Liaising with Contracts Managers on the day-to-day commercial administration of contracts to ensure the financial success of construction operations and to keep the Commercial Manager appraised of all material events.
* Preparing accurate draft sub-contracts and/or approving such drafts as prepared by Commercial Team within the Region.
* Supervising, mentoring, and encouraging junior staff in their personal professional development.
* Ensuring consultation with contracts management that all necessary notices and submissions required by the various forms of contract are given in an expedient manner.
* Ensuring that main contract payment applications contain all necessary admeasure/additional cost claims and that the timely submission of detailed claims and final accounts is achieved.
* Assisting Contracts Manager in the administration of sub-contractor performance so as to ensure the economic and timely completion of all sub-contractor liabilities written into the sub-contract.
* Ensuring prompt and regular submission of main contract payment applications and subsequent cash collection together with the preparation of sub-contractor payments (strictly in accordance with specified payment terms).
* Involvement in dispute avoidance/resolution.
* Responsible for managing meetings.
* Line management responsibility for members of the commercial team.
Required Skills
* Sound & comprehensive understanding of the construction industry and the parties to it.
* Good knowledge of NEC and JCT forms of contract.
* Proficient in reading drawings, specifications, and knowledge of the construction process.
* Strong negotiation skills with clients/contractors.
* Ability to produce accurate monthly cost and value reports and outturn financial forecasts.
Preferred Skills
* Experience of working on infrastructure commercial projects highly desirable.
* Experience of procuring major works sub-contracts.
* Experience of working on live projects and final accounts.
* Have experience of developing second stage tender submissions working under pre-construction services agreement.