Senior Quantity Surveyor

Mott Mac Donald

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.

Location - Manchester, Warrington, UK

• Manage the pre-contract tender process including tender assessment and queries and issue the contract award recommendation report.
• Ensure robust estimates are provided that are aligned to scope and make allowance for all risks.
• Manage commercial inputs to the procurement process, ensuring that strategies are developed and agreed.
• Contracts are properly managed and administered in accordance with contract requirements, including compliance with all responses to communications, payments, compensation events and programme submissions.
• Ensure robust budget and cost management is always undertaken, taking a proactive approach and providing solutions with a ‘can do’ attitude.
• Ownership of accurate commercial reporting.
• Proactive management of project and programme risk, including ensuring that mitigation plans are in place and implemented.
• Development of strong client relationships across the organisation.
• Support internal business development initiatives.

• Quantity Surveying degree or equivalent in the relevant subject.
• Have NEC3 or 4 ECC main Option A, C or E extensive experience for project delivery, administration and management.
• Demonstrable understanding and practical application of the NEC3 or 4 ECC main Option A, C or
  
  E.
• Chartered Surveyor (MRICS).
• Commercially managed and delivered post-contract projects from contract award to final account, e.g., budget and price control, forecast to complete, payment assessments and compensation events.
• Experience of a contract management software, such as CEMAR.
• Stakeholder management.
• Travel to and work in the client’s office(s) in Cumbria.

• NEC3 or 4 ECC accredited Project Manager.
• A knowledge and expertise in the water/wastewater industry sector, including the Water Industry Act 1991 and the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 section 84.
• Make well‑reasoned, sound and timely decisions based on the needs of the situation, the clients and the team members.
• Pre‑contract tendering experience on the NEC3 or 4 ECC.

The Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers management services in all the sectors that Mott Mac Donald operate in the Built Environment, Defence, Energy, Water, Transportation and Education, Health and Care.

The Unit delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity up to £20bn, through technical disciplines such as Programme Management, Project Management, Project Controls, Scheduling, Cost Management, Estimating, Infrastructure Finance, Management Consulting, Digital Consulting and Education, Health and Care Management.

Our environment and water portfolio is primarily a UK‑based business delivering project, programme and commercial management services to regulated water/wastewater clients and the Environment Agency. Our work stretches across the entire project lifecycle, from pre‑contract cost estimating and benchmarking to post‑contract QS services and commercial assurance. We deliver capital projects on behalf of our clients, ranging from several hundred thousand pounds in value to major projects and programmes worth over £0.5 billion.

We are also the home of the cost intelligence service, a specialist team of data analysts and economists who provide expert advice across all sectors on inflation and indexation.

We currently work with around half of the UK’s regulated water and wastewater companies.

Mott Mac Donald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is a consequence of the changes to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in the future.

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