Senior Quantity Surveyor / Senior QS - Beckton

Are you a Senior Quantity Surveyor / Senior QS with infrastructure experience? Can you reduce cost and risk but maintain great value? Would you like a company to support your development and encourage further education and training? If the answer is yes, then the opportunity below is for you!

The opportunity:

Laing O'Rourke are working with Thames Water on a project to ensure Beckton sewage works can cope with London's growing population and are currently recruiting a Senior Quantity Surveyor / Senior QS to join the team.

What will the Senior Quantity Surveyor role look like?

• Sole responsibility for a project, section of a project.
• All Senior Quantity Surveying duties including measurement, valuation and agreement of work sections.
• Preparation and management of interim applications for payment and agreeing certifications.
• Draft, manage and settle subcontracts.
• Management and reporting of monthly costs.
• Drafting and preparation of claims.
• Preparation and agreement of final account.
• Day to day management of any trainee, assistant quantity surveyor and/or quantity surveyor.
• Negotiating with client's representatives, sub-contractors and other consultants to achieve project results whilst maintaining group relationships.
• Advise project management on contractual implications of intended courses of action.
• Advise on commercial risks within the project or projects.
• Preparation and management of monthly contract review reports, weekly Business Plan Review (BPR) information, monthly management accounts information and contractual and commercial input into Project Business Plan, as required.
• Assist with the establishment of the project "budget to build" from the Contract award.
• Identify and agree change and implement change control process.
• Ensure that contract documents are properly executed prior to project commencement.
• Keep your manager fully advised of any issue/risk which has arisen or might arise and which could affect the business/project.

What skills & experience are we looking for?

• Infrastructure experience.
• Degree qualified in relevant discipline (Quantity Surveying / Commercial Management, Civil Engineering, Construction Management).
• A good knowledge of coins, for both sub-contract and cost management.
• A desire to learn the risk and opportunity process both internal and with our client.
• 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.

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.