Job Description
Rock Power Connections is a leading Independent Connections Provider. We specialise in designing and installing new and upgraded electricity connections to business, industry, and commercial properties.
We offer the highest quality for the best value and have a proven track record of quality and safety. Our team provides a full project management and delivery service from initial design to the final switch-on.
Key Responsibilities
* Preparation of Activity Schedule, Bill of Quantities, and Resource Profiling.
* Preparing Applications for Payment for submission to Clients.
* Reviewing project work scopes and contract documentations, notifying and preparing notices/variations as necessary.
* Main Contract/Sub-Contract administration including developing sub-contract documents, reviewing and agreeing valuations, managing variations, ensuring execution of relevant notices, and negotiating final accounts.
* Analysing and controlling commercial progress of projects working closely with the project delivery team.
* Preparing internal reports such as cash flow forecast, financial reconciliation (CVRs), and project performance, Risk & Opportunity schedules, Contractor appointment authorisations.
* Preparing subcontract enquiry documentation and conducting thorough evaluation of subcontract tenders for internal sign-off.
* Negotiating final accounts with Clients.
* Contributing to ensuring that business targets are exceeded.
* Reporting to the Commercial Manager and senior management team.
The successful candidate will play a vital role in supporting our Design, Project, and Delivery management teams across all phases of the project lifecycle. They will ensure the commercial viability of project pricing, identify and address cost risk at every level during the tender stage, capture and evaluate any impacts to project budgets once fully designed, perform thorough cost value reconciliation, intervene in, and manage variations and applications for payment during the construction stage, and conduct detailed reviews of project performance to drive continuous improvement in future works during the closure stage.
A fine balance between commerciality and stakeholder management is required, thus ensuring optimal performance vs budget while retaining Rock's industry-leading reputation for service with its clients. The Quantity Surveyor will ultimately monitor projected project costs/margin and support the mitigation of any associated risks both directly and indirectly.
Requirements
* Bachelor's degree in quantity surveying or equivalent.
* Minimum 3 years' experience working as a Quantity Surveyor.
* Ability to interpret drawings, specifications, scope-related documents to allow the preparation of a Bill of Quantities/Schedule of Rates and other such procurement documentation.
* Experience in NEC, JCT, and FIDIC contracts with the ability to administer correctly.
* Experience in managing projects commercially including contractor management, client relations, final accounts, valuations, and variations.
* Good IT literacy with competency in Excel and other software.
* Full UK Driving Licence.
* RICS accreditation would be beneficial.