Job summary

Our water sector client is seeking an experienced Quantity Surveyor to join their Havant Thicket Reservoir project team, based out of Havant. This is a salaried role which will last approximately 8 years/life of the project.

Key skills required for this role

Quantity Surveying, Costs, Management, NEC, Water, Pipelines, Reservoir

Important

Must live in commutable distance to project

Job description

Our water sector client is seeking an experienced Quantity Surveyor to join their Havant Thicket Reservoir project team, based out of Havant. This is a salaried role which will last approximately 8 years/life of the project.

Portsmouth Water has embarked on a £123 project to build a reservoir at Havant Thicket. This environmentally led project will safeguard future water supplies and provide a place of natural beauty for the community to enjoy. The reservoir will provide wetland habitats, paths for walking, cycling, running and horse-riding, and a visitors' centre providing a café and educational resources for schools. The project will be mainly delivered through a main reservoir contract and two pipeline contracts, with some additional related contracts.

The role will support a reservoir and a pipelines contract with some flexibility in providing support for the programme as a whole. The successful candidate will need to uphold values of excellence, integrity and respect.

Responsibilities:

• Support the project managers to ensure that the project is completed within its budget
• Validate project costs during the NEC target price contract, OCI design phase and advise on value engineering decisions
• Evaluate changes and make recommendations for optimum solutions to project risk
• Audit contractor cost collection systems
• Measure progress and earned value, in liaison with contractors, the programme and risk manager, supervisors and project managers
• Scrutinise contractor information, including programmes, applications for payment, compensation events and early warning notices
• Maintain configuration control of the target price contract, KPI performance incentives and pain-gain share values
• Evaluate risk in order to enable P50 monte carlo risk analysis
• Seek early resolution to potential disputes
• Develop the lifecycle financial model in readiness for handover into operations

Skills

• Strong communication skills with the ability to build excellent relationships with the client and contractor teams
• A clear, systematic approach to analysing data and communicating solutions to challenges in an effective, efficient, high-level manner
• Ability to work to deadlines with a focus on results and quality
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to review data and write decision support papers and progress reports
• Excel/Powerpoint/Word/Teams

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in quantity surveying or a related field of study
• 7 or more years of cost management experience of major civil infrastructure projects. Water industry or major earthworks experience would be an advantage
• NEC contracts experience is essential
• Chartered Member of a relevant professional institution is desirable e.g. RICS, ICES, CIOB
• Full driving licence (all applicants will be required to undertake a driver assessment)

Benefits

• Competitive salary in line with experience
• 27 days holiday plus bank holidays (rising by 1 day with full years of service - dependant on job grade)
• Company pension
• Car allowance
• Chance to work on a unique project
• Fixed term salaried role until 2029 - some flexible working may be discussed at interview