Exciting Graduate Quantity Surveyor Role at Colas

Location

Bromsgrove, Worcestershire | United Kingdom

Job description

Exciting Graduate Quantity Surveyor Role at Colas

Company: Colas

Salary: £27,000

Start Date: Summer 2024

Location: Bromsgrove/ Flexible to other sites in England

To assist the commercial function by effectively carrying out quantity surveying duties as directed by the Commercial Manager as appropriate.

Who is the company?

Colas Ltd are a UK subsidiary of the global Colas Group, which operates in over 50 countries worldwide and employs over 55,000 people including over 1500 in the UK across multiple sites.

Colas are specialists in highways construction and have been involved in large scale UK and international construction projects within the highways, airfields and marine sectors as well as offering highways maintenance services and manufacturing their own innovative surfacing products. Colas hold a ‘Gold Investor in People’ award for continuously developing and rewarding our employees, offering excellent career potential.

Colas invest, design, construct, maintain and operate a wide variety of projects for the public and private sector clients.

Sustainability and innovation are at the heart of everything they do. As technology and techniques evolve, their solutions do too.

Colas provide the complete service, from investment and design right through to project delivery and aftercare. At every step, Colas have experts with the capability and skill to turn the vision into reality. Their people all share their passion to deliver excellence in everything they do.

What is the role?

As well as either having or working towards an appreciation and knowledge of the activities listed below, the Graduate Quantity Surveyor will apply their knowledge and learning in their day-to-day duties.  The Graduate Quantity Surveyor will assist the Commercial Team and other members of the project team in the following activities:

Assist with and support the financial and commercial processes

• Management of budgets. Cost forecasting, management and control processes including the use of contract programmes, change and risk registers.
• Profitability forecasts, cost/budget/value comparisons and cash flow.
• Work to ensure the continual improvement of processes, procedures, and tools to enable the monitoring and management of key commercial drivers e.g. change, cost, risk, certification etc. including a facility to check and audit
• Ensure all commercial processes comply with Colas’ corporate governance and comply with group standards

Assist with commercial management and contract administration

• Supply chain procurement and management
• Administration of contracts and / or subcontracts including payment mechanisms, change procedures, and resolution of contentious issues, final accounts agreement and management
• Identification, recording, notification and negotiation of change in accordance with the contract.
• Evaluation of change through analysis of rates or compensation methods, and agreement of the effects of change.

Familiar with standard forms of contract such as NEC, FIDIC and JCT

• Risk management
• Able to provide advice on contractual matters and formulating contractual correspondence
• Conflict avoidance, management and dispute resolution procedures

Assist with the use of planning and programmes

• Use of programmes for monitoring the works
• Use of programmes for analysis and demonstration of delay and disruption and entitlement to extensions of time
• Use of programmes to support budget and risk management on a project

Assist with cost planning and pre-contract cost control

• Possess a knowledge of the elements present in a project budget at pre-contract phase.
• Have knowledge of the development of a cost plan or spread of a tender budget along with identification of cost drivers
• Analyse and compare contract and subcontract tenders and tender budget information
• The utilisation of labour, plant, equipment, materials and sub-contractors.

Assist with project/commercial management reporting

• Assessment of financial performance through applying the appropriate methods to arrive at cost and value reconciliation reporting
• Involvement in and understanding of the production of project trading accounts/reports illustrating profit/loss, overhead cost recovery and financial outturn forecasts for management purposes and their impact on company objectives.
• Understand the basics of company accounts, including turnover, profit/loss, work in progress and cash-flow
• Identify and interpret Key Performance and Result Measures
• Understand the use of allowances for adequate risk provision and reserve contingencies to ensure stable monthly financial reporting

Assist with recording works progress and assessing the effects of delay, prolongation and disruption

• Preparation, maintenance and audit of suitable contemporary records of work progress
• Evaluation of recorded work through applying relevant financial assessment methods
• Understand the causes of delay and their critical and non-critical effects on project completion and entitlement to extensions of time
• Understand the effects of disruption on resources and progress

Assist with the interpretation and development of bills of quantities, schedules of rates and activity Schedules

• Understand the various uses of Bills of Quantities, Schedules of Rates, and Activity Schedules and their preparation in accordance with standard methods of measurement
• Understand the different risks associated with measurement and pricing carried out under re-measurement contracts, lump sum contracts and target cost/cost reimbursable contracts and design and construct contracts
• Appreciation of the different approaches to pricing for example quantity and time related items, method related charges and the evaluation of change.

Assist with the management of interim and financial accounts

• Apply the contractual and statutory provisions relating to applications for payment including Contractor and Employer/Project Manager assessments, certificates and payment for both interim and final accounts
• Preparation, presentation, negotiation and agreement of interim and final accounts, including re-measurement in accordance with a standard method of measurement
• Preparation and evaluation of compensation events, and/or other claims based upon contractual entitlement, and/or insurance claims

Technical optional i.e.  Additional skill requirements

• Insurance

Further Information:

• Flexible in relation to travel to sites/ projects/ offices as required

Who is best suited for the role?

GCSEs – English and Maths grade C/4 and above

Working towards or prepared to work towards an HND or Degree in Commercial Management, Quantity Surveying or related discipline

Working towards or prepared to work towards professional membership of an appropriate organisation (for example, ICES, RICS, IOB)

Holds an appropriate Construction Skills Certification Scheme card or prepared to obtain one

Previous experience in a quantity surveying or similar commercial role in Aviation, Highways or Infrastructure sectors is desirable but not essential

Hold a full UK Driver’s Licence

Why you should apply?

A generous pension contribution

Life assurance cover (x4 basic salary)

25 days annual leave + bank holidays (with the option to buy/sell more)

Flexible working policy

Opportunity to study towards a professional qualification fully funded

Ongoing training and personal/professional development

Discounts on car leasing, holidays, cinema tickets, restaurants and much more through our online employee benefits portal

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£27k per annum