Commercial Assistant

**Commercial Assistant**

**Rail & Civil Engineering**

**Location - Pontyclun, South Wales**

**An outstanding opportunity for a Commercial Assistant to join our specialist rail and civil engineering team in the Wales region, playing a fundamental role in supporting a team of Quantity Surveyors in the commercial management of long term, secured Civils & Buildings Rail Capital Delivery Projects and maintenance frameworks, throughout Wales**.**

**Business Unit**

A busy and fast paced business unit involved in a range of civil engineering works in a variety of sectors to include rail (bridges, embankments, stations, platforms, tunnels etc.), Environment Agency, Local Authority etc. The business unit are involved in multi-disciplinary civils projects across the Wales region, whether one off tendered projects or projects within our long term framework / contract agreements with key clients including but not limited to Capital Delivery Projects.

Existing contracts include CP7 structures and infrastructure projects, Capital Delivery Projects and Buildings & Civils Asset Management frameworks with works typically including bridge re-construction/replacement, upgrades and refurbishments, station work (platforms, access for all etc.), structures including bridges, tunnels, footbridges, flood repair and alleviation to name just a few examples.

**The Role**

As a Commercial Assistant you will form an integral part of our expert commercial team responsible for commercial management of long term, secured Civils & Buildings Rail Capital Delivery Projects, throughout Wales.

You will work closely with the Quantity Surveyors, Senior Quantity Surveyors and Commercial Management team providing commercial and administrative assistance. Your responsibilities will comprise of providing Commercial support to the Capital Delivery Projects & Day to Day Asset Management team, producing estimates from a schedule of rates and site reports. Re-measuring actual works delivered and drafting final accounts.

Day to day as a Commercial Assistant your duties will comprise of:

- Sub-Contractor - Payments, Procurement, Liabilities for CVR
- Weekly Reports - Job Tracker
- Create & Process order requests
- Compilation of final account packs for Network Rail
- Obtaining signed completion certificates and chasing information from internal staff
- Distribution of completed SI's for estimating
- Various CVR data manipulation exercises
- Distribution of Technical Query forms to client and dealing with responses
- Gathering Final Account Information
- Organising Final Account Information to be signed off set to Network Rail to be paid
- Issuing Site Inspections to the relevant QS to be estimated
- Submitting estimates on to Monitor for Network Rail’s approval
- Ensuring all Completion Paperwork & Estimates are filed

**Requirements**:
**In return**
- Competitive annual salary negotiable dependant on experience
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (increasing with service)
- Company contributory Pension scheme
- Life Insurance
- Westfield Health Cash Plan & Westfield Rewards
- Generous Employee referral scheme
- Support and employee infrastructure embedded in the business as a platform for personal and professional development creating pathways for unrivalled career development and progression opportunities internally.
- Consistent learning opportunities
- A safe place to work
- Employee forum’s that provide a platform for having your voice heard

AmcoGiffen has a wealth of experience working on sensitive, live assets in highly regulated environments, we deliver exceptional peace of mind for our customers, creating and maintaining assets across a growing range of high-quality public and private sectors. These include rail, power generation, electricity distribution, flood defence, and waterways.

AmcoGiffen is an Equal Opportunities Employer and we offer challenging and worthwhile careers to everyone. It doesn’t matter to us what your age, disability, employment status, gender, health, marital status, sexual preference, membership or non-membership of a trade union, nationality, race, religion or social class are, or indeed any other personal characteristics not directly related to the relevant job. Anyone who meets the requirements of the job is eligible for employment with AmcoGiffen.