Role: Quantity Surveyor Location: Galway Salary: Negotiable DOE The Role: The Quantity Surveyor is required to provide commercial support to the project team, maintaining commercial information and ensuring compliance with contractual requirements, and ensuring that the Company's objectives are achieved.
They will liaise with customer/client representatives and other third parties on commercial issues including agreement of variations, claims, and any additional payments.
Key Responsibilities: Reporting Ensure robust, accurate, and timely cost and value reporting at both project and business unit level.
Ensure accurate cash flow reporting takes place.
Carry out cost management including forecasting.
Update the monthly CVR, cost, and commercial plans and have accountability, along with the project team for the commercial performance and strategy.
Processes Help ensure that commercial processes are adhered to across the business unit.
Actively seek to improve processes and procedures.
Have a good understanding of the processes and procedures used by any the company that we are working within, and assist in their development and improvement.
External relationships Ensure that any main contracts entered into have terms and conditions that are appropriate, with commercial risks identified.
Ensure that the supply chain is engaged appropriately with the correct contract terms and conditions.
Ensure that good client relationships are fostered.
Be responsible for subcontract letting, negotiation, and financial accounting.
Experience in dealing with County Councils .
Internal relationships Effectively assist in managing the commercial team, including cost clerks and commercial support staff.
Ensure effective interaction between the commercial team and the operational site teams.
Supervise and mentor Quantity Surveyors Key measures & targets: Accurate monthly forecasting.
Ability to challenge resources and costs.
Maintaining deadlines in line with the monthly commercial calendar.
Key relationships: Directors/Commercial Manager/Managing Quantity Surveyor and rest of commercial team and crews Business Development and Bid Managers.
Person Specification: The successful candidate is likely to meet all of the following criteria: Qualification/degree in Quantity Surveying, or equivalent Previous experience in the civil engineering industry Familiarity with contracts and knowledge of current Construction Law Extensive experience in commercial management and procurement of subcontractors, including chairing regular meetings, measurement, and control cycle, certificates, and accruals calculations Ability to demonstrate a good knowledge of monthly reporting and earned value analysis Excellent team player whilst also holding the ability to work independently on their own initiative Excellent time management skills, with the ability to work to tight deadlines.
Ability to encourage and support junior members of the Commercial Team INDSEN