John Sisk & Son

Senior Quantity Surveyor

Location UK-West Midlands-Birmingham
ID 2025-1625
Category
Commercial
Position Type
Full Time

Overview

 

As a Senior Quantity Surveyor you will be Leading the commercial reactive works team and assisting the operational side to ensure successful delivery of the Framework contracts. while maintaining both internal and client relationships, to maximise commercial returns & manage risk.

John Sisk & Son have been building excellence as a family-owned international construction company by offering trust, certainty and value to our clients whilst being at the heart of change.   

Responsibilities

As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you will have the following accountabilities:

  • Integrate the commercial strategy, amending with MQS/CM to suit the project/portfolio as it develops.
  • Liaise with & commercially influence/challenge the other members of the team and the construction process.
  • Take ownership for, administer & represent Sisk in commercial & contractual issues, including but not limited to:
    • Preparing tenders, analysing, selecting appropriate s/c & finalising s/c orders, financial & commercially manage to Final Account completion.
    • Prepare & present forecasts, targets & CV reconciliations.
    • Prepare & agree valuations, including generating certificates & invoice/payments.
    • Variations prepare with adequate/appropriate records, agree as works progress.
    • Update projected Final Accounts on regular basis and prepare, submit & agree Final Account in a timely manner.
    • Involvement in value engineering & design development
    • Uploading CVR to Portfolio Dashboard
  • Maintain & protect JSS commercial & contractual entitlement
  • Prelim controls/monitoring - establish & maintain with support from JSS Rail Cost Manager
  • Site records/admin & document control through Geopal or other applicable systems
  • Insurance & warranties – ensure adequate protection of JSS (from Supply chain and to client) and utilisation where necessary.
  • Minimise Risk and maximise realisation of opportunity through a MIP Plan for each project where require under Valuation Policy.
  • Review & update project risk/opportunity plan, monitoring for changes & consider within any forecast reports
    • Manage risk arising
    • Manage opportunity
  • Oversee a team of QS / AQS / CA to deliver works.
  • Ensure a career development plan is in place (agreed with MQS / CM) for each member of the team.
  • Attend Client facing project and programme update meetings utilising Care, Integrity and Excellence at all times.

Experience

    • Ability to communicate articulately, both verbally & in writing
    • Manage both people & situations sensitively & to commercial advantage.
    • Commercially inventive & astute
    • Demonstrate ownership and commercial awareness.
    • Effective time management, organisational, interpersonal and negotiation skills
    • Have experience mentoring and managing others.
    • Able to balance the need to be assertive and pragmatic, when dealing with stakeholders
    • Able to manage complex projects.
    • Able to conduct negotiations in relation to a range of issues on a project and secure acceptable commercial results.
    • Able to draft contractual and commercially sensitive correspondence and reports regularly.
    • Effectively tailors’ communications to local audiences and can articulate complex ideas and facts into a simple structure in most situations
    • Has a knowledge of bonds, guarantees, warranties, insurances, letters of intent and other common contractual mechanisms
    • Lead the procurement, negotiation and letting of complex sub-contracts.
    • Can supervise the preparation of documents for complex main contracts
    • Have experience of managing contracts using schedule of rates.

     

    Desirable Experience:

    • Experience of NEC 3 and/or 4.
    • Experience of Network Rail Contract Suite.
    • Interest in rail projects

Qualifications

Required Qualifications/Training

  • Commercial appreciation
  • Behavioural Based Safety (BBS)
  • Adjudication / dispute resolution
  • Leadership & delegation skills
  • Introduction to management
  • Legal appreciation / overview
  • CPD - Legislation & Industry Trends
  • CVR appreciation
  • Presentation & communication skills

 

 

Desired Qualifications/Training

  • BSc in Quantity Surveying or equivalent level of education or experience
  • Working towards professional chartership or similar with a recognised body.

Additional Information

 

  • Competitive Salary with yearly increase   
  • 26 days holiday (option to purchase 5 more)  
  • Employer pension   
  • Travel expenses   
  • Flexible and remote working  
  • Enhanced parental leave  
  • Professional and Educational development  

 

 

Our people are at the heart of our success and our proposition to them is work with purpose, have time for life, build a career with no limits and surround yourself with great people.  

 

Our Internal Recruitment Team fulfil all vacancies on a direct basis. Unsolicited contact by unapproved agencies (sharing speculative CVs) will not be accepted and introductory fees will not apply. 

 

*The full job specification is available on request  

 

At Sisk we are committed to attracting and hiring diverse talent into our organisation. We know the confidence gap and imposter phenomenon can get in the way of meeting remarkable candidates. We also know that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't feel they meet all the criteria. Give your transferable skills the chance to tell the full story. It’s not all about your technical expertise. Don’t hold back, we’d love to hear from you. 

 

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