Quantity Surveyor

Aureos are seeking a Quantity Surveyor to work in growing team in Penrith.

Working within Aureos Highways Business Unit, and forming a part of the Commercial team, the Quantity Surveyor plays an integral part in delivering exceptional commercial results. Core responsibilities encompass project delivery, commercial reporting and maximising profit.

Aureos Action Agenda – Unleashing our potential, a business-wide strategy focusing on seven

key priorities:

• Sustainable innovation: Embedding sustainable improvements with an aim to be net zero
• Structure and Governance: Through monthly Performance review meetings and clear delegation of authority
• Business Development and Customer Relationship Management: Growing into new markets and developing relationships and strategies with new and existing customers
• Safety, Health and Wellbeing: implementing tiers of H&S management and bring the operational input to the fore
• People and inclusion: With specific training and succession planning
• Operational effectiveness: Enhancing our capabilities and strengthening the existing core of the business
• Digitisation: Through an internal Programme Management office, lean tools, and digital platforms.

With sustainable growth in mind, our Quantity Surveyor is responsible for assisting the commercial team in completing and maintaining well organised records, contribution to the timely production of applications for payment and accurate project reporting.

Primary tasks and duties

Reporting to the Commercial Manager, you will assist the commercial team in providing support to the contract delivery team to ensure the profitability, cash management, cost control and accurate reporting of all schemes. Your role will require you to:

• Input into the application and credit control processes
• Understanding of income forecast and pricing of scope changes
• Understanding of the change control system
• Understanding of project risk
• Understanding of the production of CVRs
• Understanding of CTC
• Understanding the production of forecasting data
• Understanding the costing process
• Understanding the management of the full sub-contract cycle and input into sub-contract documentation
• Assisting with weekly cost to complete/budget reviews with the contract delivery teams.
• Upload documentation as and when necessary, in line with business requirements
• Review weekly site records including allocation sheets and site diaries.
• Attend project progress meetings.
• Assisting with the preparation of monthly financial performance reports
• Gain experience outside of the commercial function to better understand the role of the business and the quantity surveyor within the business.

Secondary tasks and duties

We operate a team ethos across the Aureos Business Unit and strive to assist colleagues in the execution of their duties where this is appropriate and brings added value. The Quantity Surveyor is responsible for the following in this respect:

• Ensure that the group commercial policies are adhered to and that the requirements of legislation are met
• Manage commercial performance against business targets and KPI’s
• Working with the commercial and operational teams to strive for continuous improvement
• Promote a culture of integration, continuous improvement and use of best practice across the client base
• Assisting with the use of key lean tools to drive efficiencies and reduce waste
• Encourage, support and assist with the delivery of successful collaborative planning with the contract delivery teams
• Commitment to their own professional development, and that of others across the Business Unit
• Other tasks appropriate to the role of Quantity Surveyor, as identified by the Senior Quantity Surveyor/Commercial Manager.

Behaviours

Aureos expects all employees to conduct themselves in a safe professional manner, applying the following key behaviours across all aspects of their work.

• Trust and respect
• We act with integrity and treat everyone with respect.
• We have an open and honest working environment in which everyone contributes effectively
• We deliver on our commitments and support others across our team to deliver on theirs
• Accountability and decision making
• We ensure responsibilities are clearly defined and fulfilled, and that performance is managed fairly.
• Everyone knows what is expected of them and how their job fits into the bigger picture
• We include the right people in the right conversations, making decisions in an effective and timely manner; we take accountability for our actions and ownership of the outcomes
• Communication and engagement
• We are a high performing, collaborative team of effective communicators.
• We willingly share information across the team to the benefit of all
• When communicating, we provide clarity and seek feedback to ensure understanding
• Constructive challenge
• We are open to challenge and welcome diversity of opinion.
• We welcome the opinions of others, even when they differ from our own
• We challenge in a constructive and professional manner to promote success
• Improvement and innovation
• We challenge the status quo to find better ways of working.
• Everyone in the team proactively shares ideas without fear
• We learn from successes and mistakes to promote continual improvement

Expectations

Targets for the Quantity Surveyor will be set and reviewed on a 6 monthly basis, aligned with the responsibilities and behaviours listed within this job description. The section below will be used to record key targets, which will align with Performance Reviews undertaken via the current Group process. The Quantity Surveyor is expected to:

• Contribute to the timely achievement of forecast figures for turnover, profit and income
• Contribute to timely production of accurate internal accounts and internal/external reports/audits
• Contribute to timely production of accurate cost and forecasting information
• Contribute to change control system
• Contribute to prompt placement and payment of sub-contracts. Maintenance of sub-contract KPI reports
• Maintain Professional Development Log

Qualifications and Training

Essential:

• Degree educated or HND/HNC equivalent.
• Working towards Professional Qualification (preferred)
• Suitable post degree experience working in contracting commercial department preferably within the power industry
• Knowledge of and ability to interpret construction industry conditions of contract, mainly NEC3 and NEC4
• Proficient in Microsoft packages (Excel)

Desirable:

• Driving license

In return you will receive

• Generous Salary
• 25 days Holiday with the option to buy more
• Pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free parking
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Employee benefits portal.
• On-site parking
• Private medical insurance
• Referral Scheme

Equal Opportunities

Aureos are an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.