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Aureos
Location: Plymouth, England, United Kingdom
Work Mode: On-site
Industry: Civil Engineering, Construction
Job Description
Aureos are seeking a Quantity Surveyor to work in Plymouth to form part of the Commercial team working within our Energy division.
The Quantity Surveyor plays an integral part in delivering exceptional commercial results. Core responsibilities encompass project delivery, commercial reporting, and maximising profit.
We Work Collaboratively With Our Customers To Deliver Critical National Infrastructure Projects Across The UK’s Energy Network. Our Goals Are To
- Grow: turnover, margin, and customer satisfaction
- Improve: operational delivery, reliability, and outcomes
- Sustain: our people, communities, and the environment
Primary Tasks And Duties
Reporting to the Commercial Manager, you will assist the commercial team in providing support to the contract delivery team to ensure the profitability, cash management, cost control, and accurate reporting of all schemes. Your role will require you to:
- Input into the application and credit control processes
- Understanding of income forecast and pricing of variations
- Understanding of the change control system
- Understanding of project risk
- Understanding of the production of CVRs
- Understanding of CTC
- Understanding the production of forecasting data
- Understanding the costing process
- Understanding the management of the full sub-contract cycle and input into sub-contract documentation
- Assisting with weekly cost to complete/budget reviews with the contract delivery teams.
- Upload documentation as and when necessary, in line with business requirements
- Review weekly site records including allocation sheets and site diaries.
- Attend project progress meetings.
- Assisting with the preparation of monthly financial performance reports
- Gain experience outside of the commercial function to better understand the role of the business and the quantity surveyor within the business.
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Secondary Tasks And Duties
We operate a team ethos across Aureos and strive to assist colleagues in the execution of their duties where this is appropriate and brings added value. The Quantity Surveyor is responsible for the following in this respect:
- Ensure that the group commercial policies are adhered to and that the requirements of legislation are met
- Manage commercial performance against business targets and KPIs
- Working with the commercial and operational teams to strive for continuous improvement
- Promote a culture of integration, continuous improvement, and use of best practice across the client base
- Assisting with the use of key lean tools to drive efficiencies and reduce waste
- Encourage, support, and assist with the delivery of successful collaborative planning with the contract delivery teams
- Commitment to their own professional development, and that of others across the Business Unit
- Other tasks appropriate to the role of Quantity Surveyor, as identified by the Senior Quantity Surveyor/Managing Surveyor
Expectations
Responsibilities
Targets for the Quantity Surveyor will be set and reviewed on a 6 monthly basis, aligned with the responsibilities and behaviours listed within this job description. The section below will be used to record key targets, which will align with Performance Reviews undertaken via the current Group process. The Quantity Surveyor is expected to:
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- Contribute to the timely achievement of forecast figures for turnover, profit, and income
- Contribute to timely production of accurate internal accounts and internal/external reports/audits
- Contribute to timely production of accurate cost and forecasting information
- Contribute to change control system
- Contribute to prompt placement and payment of sub-contracts. Maintenance of sub-contract KPI reports
- Maintain Professional Development Log
Qualifications And Training
- Degree educated or HND/HNC equivalent.
- Working towards Professional Qualification
- Driving license
- Suitable post degree experience
- Knowledge of and ability to interpret construction industry conditions of contract
- Proficient in Microsoft packages (Excel)
In return you will receive
- Generous Salary
- 25 days Holiday plus Bank Holiday
- Pension
- Learning & Development opportunities
- Assistance and Wellbeing support
Equal opportunities
Aureos are an equal opportunities employer, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.
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