Career Center
Morrisville, North Carolina
Posted: 05-Nov-23
Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom
Type: Full Time
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Role description:
We are currently looking for a Quantity Surveyor / Cost Consultant to join our UK Water teams. As part of our Cost Management team, you’ll be involved in a wide range of projects from global and high profile to small and impactful, ensuring they’re delivered on time and to budget. Your expertise in planning, estimating, budgeting and managing costs will drive growth and smarter working.
This role would be working within our Resilience Global Business Area. We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we’re feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we’re seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.
Role accountabilities:
- Collaborate with the NEC Project Manager to administer the post contract administration of NEC contracts, including assessment of contractual change and payments.
- To support suppliers in providing accurate and validated information for Project Cost and Financial Forecasts
- Commercial support / advice / guidance through all gateways to minimise cost and scope changes throughout the project life cycle
- Contract support / advice / guidance
- Procurement support
- Risk and opportunity (efficiency) – supporting the Client PM in validating costs for the Project Efficiency register before submission
- Participation in lessons learnt workshops to capture value, benefits, considerations for the future etc. as required
- Participation in Risk and value management/meetings as required for the projects
Qualifications & Experience:
- In-depth technical knowledge of specialised field, including construction processes and cost and commercial management in a consultancy setting
- Extensive NEC Contract experience
- Experience within the water sector would be preferable
- Demonstration of self-management and prioritisation skills with the ability to work under pressure
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to influence stakeholders and third parties
- Pre and Post Contract experience
- Capable of taking a project through from inception to completion
- Glasgow, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
- Edinburgh, United Kingdom
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
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We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.
