Commercial Operations

1 month ago


Darlington, United Kingdom National Highways Full time

Your new role: Assistant Quantity Surveyor

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. 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 in Darlington. We have a flexible hybrid working approach, meaning the role will be a combination of office/agile home working. 

What you’ll be leading on

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.  Maintaining and updating asset management systems on a daily basis. Maintain collaborative working relationship with supply chain contractor.

To be successful you’ll need

Relevant technical qualification at degree/HND level and/or completed a work graduate programme, apprenticeship or similar. If not already secured, you will ideally 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. Experience using costing system, assets management systems, and data bases. 

A bit about us

At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected and included to enable them to enjoy a great sense of wellbeing. 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.

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.


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