Job title: Assistant Quantity Surveyor
Location: Newport, Wales
Work Type: Permanent
As an Assistant Quantity Surveyor at Clancy, you will support the Quantity Surveyors and Senior Quantity Surveyors with a range of commercial aspects of local contacts to maximise profit and control costs.
What do I need to succeed?
- Process and produce transparent weekly and monthly cost value reconciliation process to ensure that accurate and timely information
- Capture and allocate all relevant costs and liabilities.
- Maintain long term relationships with internal and external teams for transfer of information within parameters to ensure that relationships are maintained to meet the needs of the business.
- Assist in managing opportunities and risks to the business ensuring deviations from working practice are identified and highlighted.
- Assist the Quantity Surveyor in the development of commercial tenders, offers and contracts and formal engagement with other companies.
- Identify and escalate inappropriate costs and continuously monitor which should be transferred between business streams and contract cost centres where necessary.
- Identify commercial risks ensuring they are escalated to the Quantity Surveyor for the purpose of submitting early warning notices where appropriate.
- Record and track insurance claims
- Ensure contract data and records are appropriately maintained and kept up to date
- Capture and report direct labour payments; assist in drafting and awarding sub-contracts and assessing tenders.
- Share learning and commercial best practice to encourage continuous improvement;
- Compliance with Health, Safety, Quality and Environmental policies, procedures and standards
- Compliance with Clancy driving standards policy.
- Relevant degree in construction or commercial management
What skills would I need for the role?
- Working in a complex team environment
- Experience of sub contractor management.
- Commercial awareness.
- Understanding of NEC3 forms of contract
- Thorough understanding of relevant construction and contract law
- Analytical and investigation skills
- Advanced excel skills
- Able to prioritise own workload
- Act in a truly collaborative fashion and inspire others to do the same
- Be proactive in identifying and promptly escalating issues as necessary
- Demonstrate resilience if there are setbacks
- Be accountable and take personal responsibility for resolving problems
- Constructively challenge
- Be trusted by all stakeholders to provide clear and unambiguous commercial information
- Promote a commercial team culture that works for all partners and respects & understands the commercial requirements of all stakeholders
What's my next step?
If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you - please click the apply button and we'll be in touch shortly to discuss next steps.
