Quantity Surveyor

**Job Description** Your new role
Commercial Operations - Quantity Surveyor

To provide commercial and contract support on varying options of the NEC contract in the delivery of Maintenance and Response operations, taking ownership and manage your own portfolio of work accordingly.

What you’ll be doing
- Advise the business and the project team on contractual and commercial matters and ensure the delivery team understand the contractual conditions
- Day to day contract and commercial management including managing communication and notifications to timescales, payment assessment, managing and valuing change and early warnings and review of claims to and from National Highways
- Cost planning, budget estimating and challenging contractor estimates and feed back into benchmarking and lessons learnt
- Monitor actual costs against budget and prepare contract forecasts, identification of commercial risks and opportunities
- Lead on regular cost and contract audits to ensure contractor compliance with contract conditions
- Oversee and mentor Assistant Quantity Surveyors, Commercial Assistants Graduates and Apprentices and provide on-going support in their professional development
- Lead on all commercial matters in meetings and collaborative planning sessions
- Resolve all commercial and contractual issues in a timely manner
- Build and Manage relationship with the supply chain
- Review completed designs for Commercial and Contractual compliance
- Assist other departments as and when required
- Deputise for Senior Quantity Surveyors as and when required

To be successful
- Have demonstrable experience within the Construction/Infrastructure industry in a Quantity Surveying role with proven commercial awareness and Experience of using different forms of contract (NEC preferable)
- Hold, or be working towards a Degree in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management or Civil Engineering,
- Have, or have the inclination to pursue, membership of a relevant professional body
- Working knowledge of office software products to contribute to production / maintenance of a range of reports, documents and spreadsheets
- Good written and verbal communication skills enabling you to engage effectively with a variety of stakeholders

A bit about us
There’s never been a better time to join our Commercial and Procurement team.
We’re a growing, vibrant team helping to drive the most ambitious roads investment programme our country has ever seen. You’ll be involved in ensuring that our customers and road workers get home safe and well every day while travelling or working on our roadnetwork.

Why you should join us
An informal blended working approach has been adopted for many of our roles across National Highways. We offer many different ways to work flexibly and we’re open to discuss part-time working, job shares, and flexible start and finish times.

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, and employer pension contributions 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 blended working between base location/home
- 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 plus an extra 3 days to support the national Covid effort