Quantity Surveyor

Ref: RQ1774364

Location: Northallerton, DL7

Hours: Monday to Friday 8.30am-5pm

Pay: £300 per day paid weekly PAYE

Duration: Ongoing Contract – Long Term

Duties

To effectively carry out quantity surveying duties for assigned project/ projects.

Ensure that all the commercial matters of a project including procurement, risk, cost and value reporting, forecasting and contractual matters are managed effectively. Provide support to the project team on contract requirements

1. Cost forecasting, management and control processes, including the use of contract programmes, change and risk registers.

2. Profitability forecasts, cost/budget comparisons and cash flow.

3. Work to ensure the continual improvement of processes, procedures and demonstrate Value for Money (VFM).

4. Ensure all commercial processes comply with the clients corporate governance and comply with company and legal standards.

5. Assessment of financial performance through applying the quantity of work completed to arrive at cost and value reconciliation reporting.

6. Apply the contractual and statutory provisions relating to applications for payment including Contractor and Employer/Project Manager assessments, certificates and payment for both interim and final accounts.

7. Preparation and evaluation of compensation event claims, and/or other claims based upon contractual entitlement, and/or insurance claims.

Contract Management and Supply Chain Management

10. Assist with supply chain procurement and management.

11. Administration of contracts and/or subcontracts including payment mechanisms, change procedures, and resolution of contentious issues, final accounts agreement and management.

12. Identification, recording, notification and negotiation of change in accordance with the contract.

13. Evaluation of change through analysis of rates or compensation methods, and agreement of the effects of change.

14. Familiar with standard forms of contract such as NEC, JCT.

15. Risk management.

16. Able to provide advice on contractual matters and formulating contractual correspondence.

17. Conflict avoidance, management and dispute resolution procedures.

18. Use of programmes for analysis and demonstration of delay and disruption and entitlement to extensions of time.

Cost control

19. Possess a knowledge of the elements present in a project budget at pre-contract phase.

20. Have knowledge of the development of a cost plan or spread of a tender budget along with identification of cost drivers.

21. Analyse and compare contract and subcontract tenders and tender budget information.

22. The effective utilisation of labour, plant, equipment, materials and sub-contractors.

23. Understand the effects of disruption on resources and progress.

24. Understand the causes of delay and their critical and non-critical effects on project completion and entitlement to extensions of time.

25. Evaluation of recorded work through applying relevant financial assessment methods.

26. Understand the various uses of Bills of Quantities, Schedules of Rates, and Activity

Schedules and their preparation in accordance with standard methods of measurement.

27. Ensure that the PDR process operates effectively within your team and that end of year and quarterly reviews are completed and submitted within the Clients timescales.

28. Manage your team in line with all the policies and procedures and ensure that employees are aware of their obligations under these.

This listing is from Reed. View original listing ↗