Job description
Your Next CompanyAs one of the Midlands largest groundwork companies my client have achieved an annual turnover in 2017 of circa £50m.
With work across the whole of the Midlands the company specialise in Groundworks, Earthworks, Piling, Foundations and specialist Civil Engineering projects.
Having successfully established a reputation within the industry for quality and high levels of productivity the company are now in a position to increase the size of their commercial team with the addition of a Quantity Surveyor to the group.
Your JobMy client currently require a Quantity Surveyor to work alongside the already well established Commercial Team to work across a range of prospective, live and completed projects from start to completion.
As Quantity Surveyor you will,
- Work with multiple site based commercial teams to ensure good practice across the business
- Increase profitability of all projects through the management of junior commercial staff
- Conduct negotiations with clients and sub-contractors
- Oversee the management of subcontract procurement from initial enquiry to placement of order
- Manage other commercial staff to supervise multiple subcontractor accounts through regular reporting and meetings with on site Quantity Surveyors
- Reporting to the Commercial Manager on the commercial status of all civil engineering based projects
- Develop the company supply chain relationships with suppliers and sub-contractors for the benefit of the project and future contracts
Your Skills- You will have held a similar position with a groundworks based Civil Engineering Contractor previously
- You will have previous commercial experience on groundworks / earthworks projects
- You will have the ability to manage multiple Quantity Surveyors across a range of projects at any one time
- You'll enjoy challenging and diverse projects
- Strong commercial and contract knowledge and experience using NEC family of contracts