Senior Quantity Surveyor

Birmingham, United Kingdom / London, United Kingdom / Cambridge, United Kingdom

Country

United Kingdom

Contract type

Permanent

Work pattern

Full Time

Market

Water

Water, Environment, Cost and quantity surveying

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy. Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.

As our Environment and Water portfolio continues to grow, we are seeking a dedicated Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our team. The successful candidate will demonstrate a strong enthusiasm for partnering with our clients to ensure their complex projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest standards of quality and safety. This role offers a unique opportunity to work on significant infrastructure projects throughout the UK.

• Support Water Companies in delivering large capital programmes, providing an essential service, and improving the environment.
• Provide commercial support to a large project or programme of works
• Ensuring robust estimates are provided that are aligned to scope and makes due allowance for all risks and opportunities
• Managing commercial inputs to the procurement process including ensuring that strategies are developed and agreed.
• Contracts are properly managed in accordance with contract requirements including compliance with all responses to communications, payments, programme submissions etc
• Ensuring robust cost management is undertaken at all times.
• Proactive management of project and programme risk including ensuring that mitigation plans are in place and implemented.
• Development of strong client relationships across its organisation
• Monitor that technical solutions meet with technical standards, legal obligations, and client requirements.
• Use a systematic approach to critically examine the situation from different perspective.
• Gather relevant information from different sources in reaching a decision.
• Generate and weigh the different options in arriving at decisions.
• Weigh the risks and consequences of all options.
• Make well-reasoned, sound and timely decisions based on the needs of the situation, the clients and the team member
• Involve and consult those affected by the decision.
• Maintain and build on existing client relationships to anticipate needs.

• Chartered Surveyor, ideally MRICS, with a degree or equivalent in Quantity Surveying
• Experience working with NEC Contracts and other target cost, or cost reimbursable contracts
• Experienced in delivering commercial and contractual elements of heavy infrastructure projects.
• Experienced in Contract Management
• Demonstrated background working within Consultancy or Main Contracting environment
• Ability to prioritise and able to work under pressure.
• Effective time management - efficient and adding value to projects
• Customer focus - ability to engage in sound relationships with the customer project team
• Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with clients and colleagues.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills
• Ability to demonstrate a flexible approach to work
• Technically and commercially aware able to deliver on all post contract service delivery and to solve problems
• Proactive and self motivated
• Strong commercial knowledge
• Willing to travel to client site, with potential over night stays

• A knowledge and expertise in the water/wastewater industry sector

We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise that differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.

Mott Mac Donald’s Advisory and Programme Delivery(APD) unit delivers both project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across the built environment, defence, energy, water,…