Senior Quantity Surveyor - Balfour Beatty Highways - Lower Thames Crossing, Tilbury, Essex

Location

Tilbury, Essex | United Kingdom

Job description

About the role

Our projects are more than just your opportunity to make your mark. Theyre an opportunity to stretch, test and develop your expertise. Join our Highways team as a Senior Quantity Surveyor on the Lower Thames Crossing project a nd you'll deliver complex work that really matters to our business, and the world around you. The role offers flexible working for that better work/life balance.

Role purpose

• n Experienced QS who has a track record in managing all costs relating to building and civil engineering projects, from the initial calculations to the final figures.
• Seek to minimise the costs of a project and enhance value for money, while still achieving the required standards and quality.
• Typically they will be a Chartered Member of the RICS, ICES or CIOB.
• Managing a small team of less experienced commercial staff as well as mentoring others on their journey to becoming professionally qualified.

What you'll be doing

As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you will have the following accountabilities:

• Ability to mitigate potentially damaging situations
• Applies principles of cost management & elemental cost analysis including life cycle implications where required
• Undertakes risk analysis in the context of construction
• Manage the preparation of Target Costs
• Reviews progress of the project against the various programmes
• Preparation of delay and disruption programmes
• Monitors & controls critical elements of the process
• Identifies & communicates threats to budget & programme
• Report and explain the commercial progress to senior project staff
• Manages commercial aspects with Customer and Stakeholders for their area of responsibility
• Evaluate and negotiate tenders including Subcontractors and suppliers
• Assess and identify risks and opportunities as part of risk management
• Manages customer and stakeholder management for their area of responsibility
• Risk and opportunity analysis
• Advising and contractual matters and formulating correspondence
• Undertakes benchmarking exercises & sets / monitors Performance indicators (KPI)
• Targets work opportunities or activities that can develop individuals
• Actively supports the development of others incl professional mentoring

Who we're looking for

You will have the following qualities and experience:

• BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying or experience equivalent
• Membership of RICS, ICES or CIOB
• Excellent communication
• Leadership and s trategic change Management
• Achievement Focus (Achieving Results
• Business and Customer Awareness
• Promotes organisational aims & objectives
• Manages customer needs
• Manages opportunities & threats

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

Still interested? then come and become colleagues with 26,000 staff and join a business which recorded 8.6bn in revenues last year, achieved industry leading customer satisfaction scores and has unrivalled employee engagement statistics.

An excellent range of benefits awaits the successful candidate: -

• An attractive / negotiated salary
• Company vehicle
• 42 core/base hours per week
• 25 days annual leave
• Pension savings schemes
• A whole host of other BB staff employee bens (discounts, exclusive offers etc)
• Refer a friend bonus scheme
• Scores of other Balfour Beatty opportunities available as well via our balfourbeattycareers.com portal.

About us

Balfour Beatty Highways delivers major schemes including smart motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put our customer, the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, delivering net carbon reductions and social value to the communities within which we work.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at:

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