Senior Quantity Surveyor

Job Title:               Senior Quantity Surveyor        
Location:               Warrington, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation:     £60,000- £70,000 + Benefits        
Role Type:             Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:                  SF56730

At Cavendish Nuclear we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Quantity Surveyor.

The role
As a Senior Quantity Surveyor you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. The Senior Quantity Surveyor will work with key internal stakeholders, client and suppliers/subcontractors to drive both strategic value and operational excellence through all levels of the business. 

Day-to-day, you’ll :

• Provide commercial management and support to Q.S.’s as may be applicable for each project / contract along with providing commercial support and expertise to projects being responsible for a range of commercial activities (bid governance, reviews, change management, compensation event contractual notices, etc.)
• Undertake internal compliance, liaising with the relevant Head of Commercial and customers as required as well as supporting Commercial Managers with all commercial aspects on the project.
• Gain a full understanding of the head contract terms and conditions and how this flow down to the Subcontract supply chain and proactively ensure contract compliance exists and proposes and monitors correction plans to ensure any non-compliance is eliminated.
• Construct and deliver a robust procurement project plan that delivers the objectives of the project, ensuring the deadline and budget are met and that the necessary communications and risk mitigations are in place
• Ensure disallowed costs are at an absolute minimum as well as enhancing and utilising sourcing and tendering processes that meet and exceed project /programme deliverables
• Manage the post contract commercial management of subcontracts during project execution phases and mitigating the business exposure to subcontractor claims 
• Ensure all Supplier / Subcontractor compensation events / claims are adequately justified, rationally explained, and recorded to support potential head contract CE’s / variations and sustain audit both externally and internally.

This role is full time , 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Senior Quantity Surveyor:

• Educated to degree level (or equivalent) in Building Services Quantity Surveying or have a general degree in Quantity Surveying 
• Significant experience in a Quantity Surveying role 
• Experience in managing business stakeholders to meet milestones and deliverables 
• Good understanding of day to day commercial administration in the Engineering and Construction industries 
• Experience in managing multiple projects at any given time 
• Evidence of delivering on accountabilities and driving the commercial agenda 
• Experience in delivering to project commercial strategy, and to delivering on large and complex contracts and bids 
• Experience in supporting large-scale projects and complex change initiatives using appropriate methodologies 
• Excellent NEC3 skills 

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

What we offer 

• Generous holiday allowance 
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee share scheme 
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave 
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one
• working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Opportunity to work with innovative technology.
• Growth opportunities.

Cavendish Nuclear
As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, provides a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions in clean energy, defence and civil new build and decommissioning projects. Together, we’re innovating to make nuclear safer, faster and cost-effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. Your career with us could take you anywhere within Babcock International Group – from Canada, the USA to Japan. Work with us to create a safe and secure world, together. 

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date:    10/05/24

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