Quantity Surveyor

Our water sector construction client is seeking a Quantity Surveyor to work on their pipelines contract on the Havant Thicket Reservoir build.

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 candidate would be supporting our contractor client on the pipelines contract.

Responsibilities:

• Support the project/contract to ensure it stays within 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
• Evaluate risk in order to enable P50 monte carlo risk analysis
• Seek early resolution to potential disputes

Skills

• Strong communication skills with the ability to build excellent relationships with the end client/project team
• 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

• Opportunity for a QS seeking to move into a more senior role desirable
• Bachelor's degree in quantity surveying or a related field of study
• 5-7 years or more years of cost management experience of major civil infrastructure projects. Water industry or major earthworks/pipelines experience would be an advantage
• NEC contracts experience is essential
• Chartered Member of a relevant professional institution e.g. RICS, ICES, CIOB
• Full driving licence (all applicants will be required to undertake our driver assessment)

Benefits

• Competitive salary in line with experience
• Generous annual leave
• Company pension
• Car allowance tbc
• Chance to work on a unique project
• Some flexible working may be discussed at interview