Change and Variation Management

• Identify changes arising from design development, client instructions, RFIs and site conditions.
• Maintain accurate variation, compensation event and change-control registers.
• Prepare and submit quotations for instructed or anticipated changes.
• Assess subcontractor variation submissions and challenge costs where appropriate.
• Ensure changes are properly notified, substantiated, valued and recorded.
• Track the effect of variations against package budgets and project forecasts.
• Liaise with design, engineering, construction and planning teams to evaluate the impact of change.
• Negotiate variation values with subcontractors, consultants and client representatives.
• Ensure agreed changes are incorporated into valuations and financial reports.

Applications, Valuations and Payments

• Prepare accurate monthly valuations and applications for payment.
• Ensure applications are supported by appropriate measurements, records and substantiation.
• Agree package valuations with the client's commercial representatives.
• Review subcontractor applications against verified design, installation and commissioning progress.
• Conduct site measurements and verify completed works.
• Ensure procured equipment, off-site materials and completed installations are correctly valued.
• Monitor payment cycles and help resolve disputed or delayed valuations.
• Maintain accurate records of certified amounts, payments and outstanding balances.
• Support effective project cash-flow management.

Claims and Commercial Risk

• Identify potential contractual entitlement relating to delay, disruption and scope change.
• Maintain contemporaneous records to support commercial claims and contractual positions.
• Assist with preparing and reviewing loss and expense, disruption and prolongation assessments.
• Coordinate with planning teams to evaluate the programme and cost impact of delays.
• Review subcontractor claims and prepare appropriate commercial responses.
• Identify risks relating to design information, procurement, vendor delays and commissioning.
• Maintain package-level risk and opportunity registers.
• Develop commercial mitigation measures with the wider project team.
• Escalate significant risks and exposures to the MEP Commercial Manager.

MEP Package Expertise

• Manage commercial activities relating to HV and LV power distribution systems.
• Support the procurement and cost management of generators, UPS systems, switchgear and transformers.
• Manage containment, busbar, cabling, lighting and small-power packages.
• Oversee the commercial administration of cooling, ventilation and heat-rejection systems.
• Manage mechanical pipework, pumps, valves and water-treatment packages.
• Support fire detection, fire alarm, sprinkler and specialist suppression packages.
• Manage BMS, EPMS, controls and instrumentation package requirements.
• Understand interfaces between mechanical, electrical, CSA and specialist vendor packages.
• Assist the project team in identifying package scope gaps and potential interface risks.
• Support value engineering, buildability and procurement reviews from a commercial perspective.

Testing, Commissioning and Handover

• Ensure testing, commissioning and handover obligations are captured within subcontract scopes.
• Monitor the commercial status of factory acceptance testing and site acceptance testing.
• Assess payment milestones associated with equipment delivery, installation and commissioning.
• Support the commercial management of integrated systems testing and final client demonstrations.
• Track outstanding defects, commissioning activities and contractual deliverables.
• Ensure O&M manuals, training, warranties and as-built information are commercially linked to package completion.
• Manage commercial exposure associated with delayed commissioning or incomplete documentation.
• Confirm that package completion criteria are satisfied before final payment and retention release.

Project and Stakeholder Coordination

• Work closely with the MEP Commercial Manager, Project Director and engineering management team.
• Attend commercial, procurement, design and package review meetings.
• Liaise with clients, consultants, subcontractors, suppliers and specialist vendors.
• Collaborate with design teams to understand the commercial impact of design development.
• Coordinate with planning teams regarding progress, procurement, delay and recovery programmes.
• Provide commercial input into project risk and opportunity reviews.
• Build effective relationships while protecting the contractor's commercial interests.
• Communicate commercial issues clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Team Development

• Provide guidance and support to Quantity Surveyors, Assistant Quantity Surveyors and commercial administrators.
• Review junior team members' valuations, measurements and commercial reports.
• Allocate tasks and monitor the completion of package commercial activities.
• Promote consistent use of company systems and commercial procedures.
• Support the technical and professional development of junior colleagues.
• Share MEP commercial knowledge and lessons learned across the project.
• Contribute to a collaborative and accountable commercial team culture.

Final Accounts and Project Close-Out

• Manage subcontractor accounts through to commercial close-out.
• Negotiate and agree subcontractor final accounts.
• Ensure all variations, claims, contra-charges and outstanding liabilities are resolved.
• Support the preparation and agreement of the main contract final account.
• Monitor the release of retention in accordance with contractual requirements.
• Ensure warranties, bonds and contractual close-out documents are received.
• Prepare package close-out reports and reconcile final costs against budget.
• Capture commercial lessons learned for future projects.

Essential Qualifications and Experience of the Senior MEP Quantity Surveyor

• Degree in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Construction Economics or a related discipline.
• Minimum five years' quantity surveying experience within the construction or engineering sector.
• Strong commercial experience managing mechanical, electrical or building services packages.
• Experience in package procurement, subcontract administration and cost control.
• Ability to prepare measurements, tender documentation, pricing schedules and commercial comparisons.
• Experience preparing valuations, forecasts, cost-value reconciliations and cost-to-complete reports.
• Strong understanding of change control, variations, claims and final accounts.
• Working knowledge of NEC, JCT or bespoke construction contracts.
• Good technical understanding of MEP systems, construction processes and package interfaces.
• Strong negotiation, analytical and financial management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.
• Competence using Microsoft Excel and commercial reporting systems.
• Ability to manage multiple packages, deadlines and commercial priorities.
• Willingness to work in a site-based environment in Blyth.
• Eligibility to work in the United Kingdom.

Desirable Experience

• Previous experience working on hyperscale data centres, mission-critical facilities or large-scale technology projects.
• Experience managing high-value MEP packages for a Tier 1 Contractor.
• Strong knowledge of electrical distribution,