Job Ref: 213327624

Date: 2021-03-09 18:24:51

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The Company
A Specialist Design & Build Contractor who work directly for the biggest Blue Chip Companies in Pharma & Life Sciences across the UK. With 20 years of proven capability in the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology sectors, our client have had a 100% year on year growth trajectory over the past 3 years.

This company have a fantastic attitude towards project delivery and operate in a truly collaborative way, especially given 95% of their workload is D&B Contracts directly with the Client. This allows them to adapt and react more efficiently than many of their competitors and the freedom to get on and deliver these landmark projects.

The Role
– Senior Quantity Surveyor
– As a result of several D&B contract wins which are forecasted to last for the next 2-3 years, they are currently seeking to recruit an ambitious Senior Quantity Surveyor to join their Southern team based in Milton Keynes.

Reasons to Join
– Leaders in one of the busiest sectors in the UK
– With many prestigious projects underway and a healthy forward order book for the next 2-3 years, they have a forecasted turnover of over £60m this year, it is an exciting time to join the business as a Senior Quantity Surveyor.
– By joining our award winning 150-strong client, you will have the opportunity to develop your expertise and career as an integral part of a driven and growing team.
– You will work with premium clients on challenging and interesting projects, ranging from laboratories and cleanrooms to the most complex pioneering pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities.
– The foundations of the company have been built around partnering and collaboration directly with End-User Clients and thus creates an open, dynamic and agile environment where employees are able to focus on high standard of delivery.

What's on Offer
– Salary negotiable (dependent on experience).
– Car Allowance.
– Flexible Working Hours.
– Pension scheme.
– Private Healthcare.
– Child Care vouchers.
– Interesting and challenging projects delivered for blue chip pharmaceutical companies.
– Great opportunities for further career development.
– Regular Social Events.

Responsibilities
– You will be operating within a range of different commercial arrangements including lump sum work, alliance & collaborative contracts and term agreements and you should be familiar with each of these arrangements. You must also have good knowledge and understanding of JCT and NEC building contracts.
– Although your prime functions are the commercial management of projects together with input into the development of commercial practices within the organisation your support may also be required in tendering projects and therefore Tendering / Estimating is also included within your job description.

Therefore your roles and responsibilities can be split into the following specific areas:-

– Collaborative Contracts
– Commercial Support
– Procurement
– System Development
– Tendering / Estimating

However in essence your role is to closely identify, analyse and develop responses to commercial risk, control / monitor all commercial aspects of the projects most importantly to maximise our profitability whilst managing the cashflow.

Collaborative Contracts
– Provide a wide range of commercial support to alliance / collaborative projects including the preparation of monthly cost reports, management of change control etc.
– Prepare and monitor risk analysis schedules and provide input into strategies to mitigate these risks during the course of the work.
– Prepare, monitor and report on KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators).
– Develop benchmarking information, primarily for HVAC and Fit Out works to demonstrate value for money.
– Develop matrices to establish earned value on projects and be able to manipulate this information to generate S curves etc.

Commercial Support
– Provide commercial support to engineers and project managers by preparing applications, invoices, variations and general commercial input into projects.
– Working in close liaison with the Project Manager you will monitor costs on projects and prepare monthly financial forecasts with full reconciliation against cost incurred, committed cost, future cost and variations.
– Review and provide commercial advice on Terms and Conditions for tenders and contracts to highlight any associated risks.

Procurement
You will work in close liaison with the Project Manager to procure sub-contract work packages, equipment and general materials, however you will also be required to carry out the following:-
– Produce procurement schedules.
– Advising on procurement strategy.
– Agree working arrangements with all key service providers.
– Agree terms and conditions and raise orders for significant work packages.

System Development
Develop cost systems and procedures to streamline cost control, ordering procedures and commercial frameworks.

Tendering / Estimating
You shall work with the project manager in preparing lump sum bids, target costs and budget prices for prospective clients including the following:
– Compile enquiry documents for competitive bidding.
– Analyse sub-contractors tender returns, compile tender analysis report.
– Determine preliminary allowances including design and staff costs against programme.
– Produce S curve of project expenditure across programme.
– Preparing tender and contract documents, including bills of quantities in a professional format for Client.
– Material listing.
– Assisting in establishing a client’s requirements and undertaking feasibility studies.
– Prepare cost schedules using schedules of rates.

Knowledge & Experience Required
– A degree in Quantity Surveying is preferred but minimum qualifications are HNC in Quantity Surveying/ Building Services or Building Studies/Construction.
– Other relevant courses accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB).
– Fully conversant with traditional forms of contract but also alliance, collaborative and reimbursable type projects.
– IT proficient.
– Membership or accreditation with any professional institution (RICS/ICE/CIBSE/CIOB) would be favourable.
– Minimum 10 years experience in industry

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