Job 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.
About Us
Why you should join us
At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We're proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.
So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it - then you'll be a great fit for our organisation.
A connected and sustainable working approach has been adopted across National Highways. For some roles, this means being able to work in a hybrid way spending up to 60% of time working from a remote location such as home.
Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible.
Our benefits package
* Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus
* Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of up to 10%
* Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)
* Flexible hours and an approach driven by connected and sustainable working which includes hybrid working
* Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
* Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines
* A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
* Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience
And we are
* Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities
* Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme
* Community friendly - offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year
If you are successful, it is key to know all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory completion of our pre-employment checks which include:
* Right to work check
* 3 year employment history references
* DBS criminal record check
* Social media and adverse journalism check
* Driving licence check (if applicable)
* Fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable)
* Qualifications and/or professional membership check (if applicable)
And finally
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