Balfour Beatty

About the role

Join Balfour Beatty as a Quantity Surveyor and play a pivotal role in one of the UK’s most ambitious sustainability projects. We’re looking for a talented professional to join our Commercial team, working directly on the Net Zero Teesside (NZT) contract within our UKCS Regional Civils business.

NZT is a groundbreaking initiative aimed at transforming the Teesside industrial cluster into the UK’s first zero-carbon industrial zone. The project centres around a state-of-the-art power generation facility equipped with post-combustion carbon capture technology to significantly reduce emissions.

As part of this venture, UKCS Regional Civils will deliver a range of essential infrastructure, including sub-stations, control rooms, storage units, welfare and laboratory facilities, and advanced water treatment plants.

What you'll be doing

We’re looking for a Quantity Surveyor with several years of hands-on experience managing project costs and income across building and civil engineering works. In this role, you’ll take ownership of commercial responsibilities within your remit, including procurement and supply chain management. You’ll also support senior colleagues while guiding and mentoring junior commercial staff.

Your focus will be on driving value for money and cost efficiency, without compromising on quality or customer expectations. You’ll play a key role in ensuring commercial success across all phases of the project.

Ideally, you’ll be chartered or nearing completion of professional membership with RICS, ICES, or CIOB. As a role model within the commercial team, you’ll actively maintain your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and contribute to a culture of excellence and growth.

You will be accountable for:

• Governance
  • Has a good knowledge of and adheres to the Company’s governance requirements (BMS & GMCEs)
• Commercial Management and Administration
  • Use the company’s ERP and Digital Systems
  • Orders information and systematically checks data
  • Measure, record & value work unsupervised in accordance with appropriate rules and procedures
  • Preparation of Cost reconciliation statements
  • Measure & interpret works information, specifications & drawings and prepare Bills of Quantities and Schedules of rates.
  • Build up estimates from first principle including net and gross estimates
  • Measurement of works and agreements with subcontractors
  • Review weekly, monthly, section programmes of works
  • Plan commercial activities to meet requirements of section programmes
  • Collation of Cost and Value Information
  • Understanding of the Customer Contract and undertakes customer and stakeholder management for their area of responsibility
  • Have an understanding of delay and disruption programmes
• Procurement
  • Collect information required to specify procurement requirements
  • Record and document information including registration of interest
  • Understand the steps / documentation required
  • Manage and Adjudicate Subcontract Enquiries

Who we're looking for

Essentials - The following qualifications or their equivalent are essential:

• BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying or equivalent knowledge
• CSCS Card (Academically Qualified/Professional Qualified Person)
• MRCIS/MCInstCES/MCIOB or working towards them

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

About us

With a strong track record of delivery, our civils teams connect communities through infrastructure projects in the highways, public realm, rail, flood and coastal defence, and industrial sectors across England and Wales.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com

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