Laing O'Rourke
Quantity Surveyor - Bridgend
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Are you a driven and ambitious Assistant Quantity Surveyor looking to take the next step in your career?
Do you want to join a company that is committed to your professional development, supports further education and training, and provides clear opportunities for career progression?
If you're eager to build your skills, work on exciting projects, and develop your career within a supportive and forward-thinking team, we'd love to hear from you!
The Opportunity
Laing O'Rourke is a key construction partner on the Broacastle Substation project, a major infrastructure upgrade for National Grid.
We are currently seeking an Assistant / Quantity Surveyor to join the team in Bridgend.
What will the role look like?
- Manage and take commercial responsibility for specific work packages or project areas.
- Assist with the preparation of subcontract enquiries, evaluation of quotations, and subcontract procurement.
- Prepare, manage and certify subcontractor interim and final payments.
- Measure, value and agree works, maintaining accurate commercial records throughout the project lifecycle.
- Support the preparation of applications for payment, internal valuations, cash flow forecasts and final accounts.
- Monitor project costs, income and expenditure, producing accurate monthly cost and value reports, turnover forecasts and contract reviews.
- Identify, assess and manage changes, ensuring the change control process is administered effectively.
- Assist with the preparation of claims and management of contractual matters, providing commercial support to project teams.
- Attend and contribute to commercial, financial and progress meetings with clients, subcontractors and internal stakeholders.
- Provide clear and professional communication, ensuring project risks, opportunities and issues are identified and reported promptly.
- Support the development of junior commercial team members where applicable and contribute to a collaborative team environment.
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What skills & experience are we looking for?
- Strong knowledge of NEC contracts.
- A degree in Quantity Surveying.
- Experience in power or major infrastructure projects.
- RICS membership (desirable but not essential).
- Willingness to be involved in other activities to achieve company objectives.
- A drive to learn and grow to the next grade.
About Us
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
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Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.
We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com.
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