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As Senior Quantity Surveyor you will be supporting the team within Water and Environment, delivering complex infrastructure schemes.

What you will contribute to the team;

• Support Water Companies in delivering large capital programmes, providing an essential service, and improving the environment.
• Provide commercial support to a large project or programme of works
• Ensuring robust estimates are provided that are aligned to scope and makes due allowance for all risks and opportunities
• Managing commercial inputs to the procurement process including ensuring that strategies are developed and agreed.
• Contracts are properly managed in accordance with contract requirements including compliance with all responses to communications, payments, programme submissions etc
• Ensuring robust cost management is undertaken at all times.
• Proactive management of project and programme risk including ensuring that mitigation plans are in place and implemented.
• Development of strong client relationships across its organisation
• Monitor that technical solutions meet with technical standards, legal obligations, and client requirements.
• Use a systematic approach to critically examine the situation from different perspective.
• Gather relevant information from different sources in reaching a decision.
• Generate and weigh the different options in arriving at decisions.
• Weigh the risks and consequences of all options.
• Make well-reasoned, sound and timely decisions based on the needs of the situation, the clients and the team member
• Involve and consult those affected by the decision.
• Maintain and build on existing client relationships to anticipate needs.

Required for the position of Senior Quantity Surveyor;

• Degree or equivalent in related subject
• Experienced in delivering commercial and contractual elements of heavy infrastructure projects.
• Experienced in Contract Management
• Demonstrated background working within Consultancy or Main Contracting environment
• Ability to prioritise and able to work under pressure.
• Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with clients and colleagues.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills
• Ability to demonstrate a flexible approach to work
• Technically and commercially aware able to deliver on all post contract service delivery and to solve problems
• Proactive and self motivated
• Strong commercial knowledge
• Effective time management - efficient and adding value to projects
• Customer focus - ability to engage in sound relationships with the customer project team

Preferred, but not essential.