Quantity Surveyor

Job Nature and Scope:

UK Power network Services has long-term contracts to upgrade operate and complete the life cycle maintenance of the high voltage electrical assets for specific major clients, together with a capital expenditure programme for the supply of infrastructure and connections to multiple client sites. UK Power Networks Services is looking to employ a Quantity Surveyor to oversee the commercial aspects of the contracts.

Job Purpose

The jobholder will work with the Client Delivery Team in Heathrow and in various national locations when required. The jobholder will ensure a commercial relationship is maintained with the client(s) as well as with Suppliers, Sub-contractors, and other stakeholders. The jobholder will manage or support commercial matters with regards to contract management, pricing, service delivery, scope change and dispute resolution to ensure contract requirements are compliant with standards and co-ordinated to maximise profit delivery

Dimensions:

- Turnover - £30 million to £40 million per year project and/or contract revenues.
- No direct reports

Key Responsibilities:

- Support the contract and commercial management to achieve all contract related commercial goals.
- Manage the monthly valuations and payment applications.
- Prepare and issue information for the Finance Department
- Interfaces with the Client Delivery Manager, Senior Project Managers, Project Managers, other commercial staff, and Planners to deliver professional and competent advice and support, to ensure that the projects are managed in accordance with the contract and meeting the required reporting deadlines.
- Comply with all UKPN Services guidelines, goals and procedures and identify and report areas of non- conformance.
- Assist the management of all change procedures in the contract and related projects, ensuring that they are followed by all parties.
- Co-ordinate, analyse and assess use of suppliers and sub-contractor as directed to ensure appropriate service levels and revenues are delivered.
- Monitor the project budget to achieve cost and cash flow targets.
- Collaborate with the Project Managers and Engineers to ensure risks are identified and managed.
- Identify and secure growth opportunities, supporting the project delivery team in maintaining a schedule of the potential financial impacts for multiple projects.
- Support the relevant annual rate reviews.
- Assess Principal / Main Contractors subcontract agreements and advise where clauses are in breach of Partner policies and guidelines, making recommendations to achieve compliance.
- Create strategies for dispute resolution and prepare arguments to defend or pursue any claims.
- Preparation and review of Project Gate Papers to ensure there is a strong commercial case for the initiation and continuation of projects and proposals.
- Support the commercial handover of projects to ensure that all the commercial and contractual information included in proposals is transferred to and understood by those responsible for the on-going commercial management of the contract.
- Support the creation a commercial plan setting out the internal and external reporting and notification process.
- Support or lead the establishment of necessary contracts with suppliers, formalise relationships and procure long lead items.
- Active commercial management and attention to control costs, manage budgets, ensure there is sufficient cash flow and deal with change events such as variations or delays in order to meet or exceed the profitability targets of each contract.
- Support the reporting of commercial performance on a monthly basis
- Assist the commercial risk management for projects, ensuring that commercial risks are recorded and flagged to the central finance team.
- Assist or lead commercial closure of projects, dependant on scale, to conclude all financial & commercial matters and complete commercial dealings with the client.
- Responsible for final cost report and summary of projects to allow agreement of the final account for the project, understand the overall commercial performance of the project versus forecasts and identify learning points to share best practice across the business.

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications and Experience:

- Preferably educated to degree level or with comparable professional qualifications and experience.
- Preferably formally qualified in quantity surveying or other relevant business discipline.
- Professional qualification and/or membership of the RICS, CIOB, ICES or other relevant Chartered Institute would be an additional advantage.
- Quantity surveying experience and business acumen, a demonstrable track record in managing varied contracts from a quantity surveying perspective.
- Understanding of electricity network operations would be a distinct advantage.
- Capable of operating with some degree of autonomy
- Working knowledge of NEC contracts
- Knowledge of supply chain environment, contracts and strong in contract negotiations
- Experience of commercial activity in a competitive, client-led construction project management environment.
- A demonstrable record of success with experience in similar roles.
- Experienced in using Word, Excel, PowerPoint to an intermediate level, and some knowledge of SAP.
- Good communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.
- Good analytical skills to make informed, balanced business decisions and reporting findings back to Clients and Internal Stakeholders.
- Proven ability of developing and maintaining professional relationships with both service providers and internal stakeholders .
- Strong team working skills.

Measures of Success:

- Profitability of the contract
- Meeting and exceeding contract commercial and reporting KPIs
- Understanding and management of the Client Relationship
- Contribution to contract growth
- Successful resolution of client disputes where necessary
- Independent and skilled in the face of conflicting priorities with the ability to meet deadlines.
- Customer satisfaction.
- Resource management.
- Health & safety responsibilities with the goal of zero harm to people and the environment.

Health & Safety Responsibilities

Managers and supervisors carry both legal and company responsibilities for ensuring the health and safety of their employees, those under their control and those who might be affected by the work undertaken, i.e. public, visitors and employees of other organisations. This includes briefing individuals working for them and ensuring there is the necessary understanding, competence and application of requirements to work safely and without harming the environment.

Employees are responsible for ensuring they fully understand the health and safety risks involved in their work activities and their responsibility to apply the controls needed to manage those risks to acceptable levels. Similarly where work activities can have an adverse impact upon the environment, and particularly where there are legal requirements, employees are responsible for understanding those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied.

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