Senior Quantity Surveyor
Warrington, GB, WA3 6YD
Job Title: Senior Quantity Surveyor
Location: Warrington, Cheshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Comepetitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF58459
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:
- Support Quantity Surveyors (Q.S.): Provide commercial expertise for projects, including bid governance, reviews, change management, compensation event contractual notices, etc.)
- Ensure Contract Compliance: Understand and enforce head contract terms throughout the supply chain.
- Manage Procurement: Develop project procurement plans to meet budget, deadline, and risk mitigation goals.
- Optimise Costs: Minimise disallowed costs and improve sourcing/tendering processes that meet and exceed project /programme deliverables
- Manage Subcontractor Contracts: Oversee commercial aspects of subcontractor agreements during project execution and mitigating the business exposure to subcontractor claims
- Support Claims Management: Justify and document subcontractor claims to support poterntial head contract variations and audits 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
- Proven experience in Quantity Surveying with a strong track record of delivering projects on time and within budget.
- Skilled in managing stakeholders and ensuring smooth project execution.
- Experienced in handling commercial administration for engineering and construction projects.
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Expertise in NEC3 contracts and delivering complex bids and projects.
- Experience supporting large-scale projects and change initiatives.
Qualifications for the Senior Quantity Surveyor
- Educated to degree level (or equivalent) in Building Services Quantity Surveying or have a general degree in Quantity Surveying
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: 04/10/2024
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