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Quantity Surveyor This challenging and exciting opportunity requires an individual with commercial expertise within the UK civil engineering, construction or infrastructure sectors. This position offers hybrid working. Our client is one of the UKs leading specialist heavy civil engineering and construction contractors, renowned for providing technically advanced and cost-effective solutions tailored to complex project and client requirements. Their reputation is built on engineering excellence and a commitment to continual innovation, backed by a central technical design and engineering resource, they can deliver the full range of foundations, groundworks, site remediation, piling, geotechnical, structural, and infrastructural engineering techniques. As one of the largest specialist contractors in the industry, they are able to provide clients with a bespoke service offering fully supported by their state-of-the-art processes and technologies. Due to continued growth and a number of recent, significant contract awards our client now wishes to appoint an experienced Quantity Surveyor who will support commercial and contractual matters across the business, thus will effectively contribute to financially delivering a range of projects. The Role • Support commercial activities and financial governance, working closely with the pre-construction, operations and management teams, • Continually review existing commercial processes to identify and implement best practice, • Draw up contracts and sub-contracts or ensure contracts have been drawn up prior to commencement of works, and to review contracts drawn up by third parties, • Assist with pre-construction commercial activities, such as vetting or approval of terms, contract evaluations, and sub-contract procurement and selection, • Identify risk and opportunities associated with contracts, and manage as appropriate, • Provide commercial and contractual advice to operations teams, • Notification, preparation and agreement of any change, claims or extensions of time, • Attend client meetings, including project commencement and close out appointments, • Undertake commercial audits for each contract to ensure good practice and compliance, • Provide final account sign off and agreement of interim assessments, including early warning notifications, compensation events and extensions of time etc., • Financial reconciliation and all generic contractual administration, • Attending meetings covering risk, value engineering, cost versus value and general progress, • Preparation of weekly and monthly CVR reports, including KPI information, estimates of defined costs to complete, and any pain or gain position, • Preparing and agreeing of final accounts, • Preparation and administration of sub contract documents including set up, • Administration of accounts to final stages The Person • Whilst relevant formal qualifications are desirable, candidates possessing demonstrable practical experience will be equally acceptable, • You will possess a good working knowledge of the civil engineering or construction sectors, along with NEC and JCT contract expertise, • Knowledge and understanding of pre-construction and procurement processes, • Knowledge of multiple differing construction techniques and the general sequence of events, • The ability to apply the knowledge and principles of quantity surveying best practice, • A basic working understanding of plant, equipment and materials We are committed to equal opportunities. We wish to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and appointed solely on their suitability for the post irrespective of race, gender, age, disability, caring responsibilities, sexual orientation, marital / civil partnership status, religion / belief or nationality. JTRA1_UKTJ