Commercial Operations

2 weeks ago

Wakefield, Wakefield, United Kingdom National Highways Full time

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 exciting opportunities for a Assistant Quantity Surveyor to join our team on a 18-month Fixed Term contract basis.

You will support (and in some cases lead) commercial and contract management of schemes of value from £1m to more than £30m. 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.

The role will be primarily based in our Wakefield office with a requirement to attend other NH Offices / Site when required. In all cases we have a flexible hybrid working approach, meaning the role will be a combination of office/agile home working with a general expectation of office working at least 2 days per week.

  • Supply Chain management including sending enquiry documentation, quotation assessment, work order award and instructions to supply chain where required. Supply Chain Payment assessment including all relevant documentation on a monthly basis.
  • Assisting in the management of site level change control including early warning and compensation event management and assessment, both to the Client and to the supply chain as necessary.
  • Monitor actual cost against targets.
  • Manage own portfolio of works under supervision from QS/ SQS.
  • Liaising with other departments to ensure that Schemes Tracker is up-to-date, data is accurate and reconciled against other sources.
  • Maintain collaborative working relationship with supply chain contractors.

About you.

  • To have either achieved or be 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. Alternatively, you will be working towards a Chartered qualification within a relevant professional organisation, such as RICS, ICES, or equivalent.
  • Basic experience of contract administration, desirably using NEC forms of contract.
  • Intermediate level MS Excel (basic formula, pivot tables, formatting).
  • You will have good written and verbal communication skills enabling you to engage effectively with a variety of stakeholders.
  • 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.

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