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Senior Quantity Surveyor

3 days ago

York

Working within Aureos and forming a part of the Commercial team, the Senior Quantity Surveyor plays an integral part in delivering exceptional commercial results. Core responsibilities encompass project delivery, commercial reporting and maximising profit. Aureos SPN work collaboratively with our customers to deliver critical national infrastructure projects across the UK. Our goals are to: • Grow: turnover, margin and customer satisfaction, • Improve: operational delivery, reliability and outcomes, • Sustain: our people, communities and the environment Aureos’s Action Agenda – Unleashing our potential, a business-wide strategy focusing on seven key priorities: • Sustainable innovation: Embedding sustainable improvements with an aim to be net zero, • Structure and Governance: Through monthly Performance review meetings and clear delegation, • of authority, • Business Development and Customer Relationship Management: Growing into new markets and developing relationships and strategies with new and existing customers, • Safety, Health and Wellbeing: implementing tiers of H&S management and bring the operational input to the fore, • People and inclusion: With specific training and succession planning, • Operational effectiveness: Enhancing our capabilities and strengthening the existing core of the business, • Digitisation: Through an internal Programme Management office, lean tools, and digital platforms. With sustainable growth in mind, our Senior Quantity Surveyor is responsible for assisting the commercial team in completing and maintaining well organised records, contribution to the timely production of applications for payment and accurate project reporting. Job Content Primary tasks and duties: Reporting to the Regional Commercial Manager, you will assist the commercial team in providing support to the contract delivery team to ensure the profitability, cash management, cost control and accurate reporting of all schemes. Your role will require you to: • Management of application and credit control processes, • Management of optimisation of income, • Management of all processes regarding costing and forecasting, • Management of change control system, • Input into the management of project risk, • Management of CTC and CVRs, • Management of the full sub-contract cycle, • Provision of commercial advice to Project Team, • Development of team spirit and trustworthiness within Project Commercial Team and with Client and S/C, • Management of dispute resolution, • Communications within the Project Commercial Team and with the Project Team, • Management of Training plans, • Input into the tendering process Secondary tasks and duties: We operate a team ethos across the SPN Business Unit and strive to assist colleagues in the execution of their duties where this is appropriate and brings added value. The Senior Quantity Surveyor is responsible for the following in this respect: • Ensure that the group commercial policies are adhered to and that the requirements of legislation are met, • Manage commercial performance against business targets and KPI’s, • Working with the commercial and operational teams to strive for continuous improvement, • Promote a culture of integration, continuous improvement and use of best practice across the client base, • Assisting with the use of key lean tools to drive efficiencies and reduce waste, • Encourage, support and assist with the delivery of successful collaborative planning with the contract delivery teams, • Commitment to their own professional development, and that of others across the Business Unit, • Other tasks appropriate to the role of Senior Quantity Surveyor, as identified by Regional Commercial Manager/Commercial Manager Behaviours Aureos SPN expects all employees to conduct themselves in a safe professional manner, applying the following key behaviours across all aspects of their work. • Trust and respect, • We act with integrity and treat everyone with respect., • We have an open and honest working environment in which everyone contributes effectively, • We deliver on our commitments and support others across our team to deliver on theirs, • Accountability and decision making We ensure responsibilities are clearly defined and fulfilled, and that performance is managed fairly. • Everyone knows what is expected of them and how their job fits into the bigger picture, • We include the right people in the right conversations, making decisions in an effective and timely manner; we take accountability for our actions and ownership of the outcomes, • Communication and engagement We are a high performing, collaborative team of effective communicators. • We willingly share information across the team to the benefit of all, • When communicating, we provide clarity and seek feedback to ensure understanding, • Constructive challenge We are open to challenge and welcome diversity of opinion. • We welcome the opinions of others, even when they differ from our own, • We challenge in a constructive and professional manner to promote success, • Everyone in the team proactively shares ideas without fear, • We learn from successes and mistakes to promote continual improvement Expectations Targets for the Senior Quantity Surveyor will be set and reviewed on a 6 monthly basis, aligned with the responsibilities and behaviours listed within this job description. The section below will be used to record key targets, which will align with Performance Reviews undertaken via the current Group process. The Senior Quantity Surveyor is expected to deliver: • Timely achievement of forecast figures for turnover, profit and income, • Timely production of accurate internal accounts and internal/external reports/audits, • Timely production of accurate cost and forecasting information, • Robust and up to date change control system. Prompt agreement of and payment for changes. Risk register frequently reviewed and updated, • Successful well managed sub-contract life spans with few or no disputes and payments made on time, • A commercially well informed, qualified and professional Project Commercial Team with few quickly resolved project disputes, • Up to date records/reports/libraries of standard documents, • Significant contribution to the tendering, and contract review processes In return you will receive. • Generous Salary, • 25 days Holiday with the option to buy more, • Pension, • Cycle to work scheme, • Free parking, • Health & wellbeing programme, • Employee benefits portal., • On-site parking, • Private medical insurance, • Referral Scheme Equal Opportunities Aureos are an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable

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