Quantity Surveyor Level 2 (ID:4347)
Working Hours: 35 Hours per week
Contract Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Additional Payments: Casual Car User Allowance
Closing Date: 11 October 2024
Interview Method: In Person (Face to Face)
Interview Date: 24 October 2024
This role is subject to -
Qualification - Qualified with a BSc (or equivalent) in Quantity Surveying.
Registration - Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors or working towards membership (e.g MRICS) or holds full membership of a relevant professional body.
Experience - Demonstrable Quantity Surveying experience in Highway/Construction related projects.
Casual Car Documentation - The successful candidate will be a designated Casual Car User which means that car journeys may be necessary on an occasional basis, but are not essential to the role. If you do drive, you must always hold a full valid driving licence and provide your own car for use at work, as well as provide all the appropriate documentation. You will receive an allowance per mile of business use.
Driving Licence - The successful candidate should hold a full clean driving licence as you will be required to drive a vehicle adhering to council regulations.
The role holder will fulfil a commercial position within the service area and will be expected to manage and be responsible for the commercial elements of allocated construction projects, taking responsibility for end to end service delivery, often on large or complex projects.
The role requires commercial experience in a construction project environment, with an ability to support the delivery team by ensuring that all commercial requirements are fully defined and managed.
The role focuses on the delivery of Essential maintenance contract's and frameworks managing external contractors who are undertaking maintenance programmes on our behalf, average annual budgets c£6m.
A key aim is to ensure effective contract management across the supply chain delivering to budget, within defect response times, to quality standards as we keep the highway network moving to shape the city in line with the Greater Manchester Transport Strategy 2040 as we look to form effective partnerships for the coming years.
You an see details of duties & responsibilities on our careers page, by clicking 'apply'.
It is considered that you will have:
- Experience in service delivery from a capital programme perspective
- Proven experience of commercially managing projects in a construction related environment;
- An ability to deal with and resolve commercial and contractual issues and risks at project level;
- Experience in a client facing role
- Proven experience of building relationships
- An ability to take the lead with client interfaces and responsibility for team outputs where these are of a commercial nature;
- Communication and proven commercial management skills
- Proven experience of building relationships
- Communication and proven commercial management skills
What you can expect from us...
- A competitive salary of £39,186 to £43,421.
- Casual-user car allowance per-mile scheme for all business miles travelled.
- Car leasing scheme that offers a brand-new, competitively priced, electric or hybrid car to pay a monthly fixed cost straight out of your salary, pre-tax: no deposit requirement or credit checks, maintenance included, fully comprehensive insurance included.
- A generous annual leave entitlement of up to 31 days paid leave (plus bank holidays) after a qualifying period of local government service and the ability to purchase an additional 10 days leave for full time employees.
- A flexible approach to working arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance, including a 35-hour working week, and flexitime scheme which permits accrued hours to be taken as additional "flexi-leave" days
- A host of health & wellbeing benefits - e.g., Employee Assistance Programme, gym discounts and Cycle to Work Scheme
- Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution into a defined benefit pension, with life cover and the option to build additional voluntary contributions via salary sacrifice arrangements
About the Candidate
You'll be able to show that you have significant knowledge and experience of undertaking a similar position within the industry, gained within either a Local Authority, Consultancy, or the Private sector. A relevant technical qualification in Civil Engineering or equivalent and/or appropriate experience of commercial management. You will be able to contribute to service delivery and manage your own workload without day-to-day supervision, across all types of projects, from small to complex commercial schemes whilst working with the Teams and the supply chain partners.
By clicking 'apply' you will be taken to our careers page where you can see more information and can complete your application.