Assistant Quantity Surveyor
The Role:
The Assistant Quantity Surveyor will provide advice and report on and control all commercial and financial aspects of projects and contracts. The role includes offering support to the Project Manager to allow projects to be safely delivered on time, to budget and to achieve the highest levels of customer satisfaction and enable the Company’s ‘Three Pillar Objectives’ to be achieved. The Assistant Quantity Surveyor will also assist the Quantity Surveyor in providing commercial expertise for projects to maximise returns by working within robust procedures to support the Commercial Manager and Project Managers.
Key Responsibilities:
Manage resources
- Produce and send enquiries to subcontractors inviting them to tender and engage with the supply chain
- Receive and analyse quotations, liaising with Contracts Managers and Site Agents regarding price, proven history, availability etc.
- Notify in writing both successful and unsuccessful subcontractors in a timely manner
- Produce and process formal subcontract documents and certify interim and final payments and final subcontract account
- Produce bill of quantity/activity schedule for payment purposes
- Produce cash flow forecasts for internal and client purposes
- Monitor and control income and expenditure on contracts e.g., interim/final applications for payment/final accounts/payments for late monies etc. liaising where necessary with the relevant people e.g., engineers, clients etc.
- Produce relevant monthly reports for the Commercial Manager e.g., cost and value comparisons, turnover forecasts etc. ensuring information is complete and accurate
Manage information
- Contribute to and attend financial and progress meetings with the client engineers and subcontractors as required
- Provide advice and support to the site team to optimise the use of contract resources
- Provide support for the Managing Surveyor in terms of data input etc.
- Give feedback to Estimators and Contracts Managers regarding contract pricing, projected profit/loss, pricing omissions etc.
Key measures & targets:
- Accurate monthly forecasting
- Ability to challenge resources and costs
- Maintaining deadlines in line with the monthly commercial calendar
Key relationships:
- Commercial Manager/Managing Quantity Surveyor and rest of the commercial team
- Business Development and Bid Managers
Person Specification:
The successful candidate is likely to meet all of the following criteria:
Essential
- Ability to use a range of IT packages including Microsoft Office and bespoke packages
- Exceptional relationship-building skills
- Self-motivated and proactive
- Commercial awareness and understanding of the Construction process
- Excellent communication skills, both oral & written
- Negotiation skills and ability to apply those skills and internally, externally & with our supply chain.
- Positive attitude at all times and the ability to integrate rate and play an active part in the Construction Team
- Good organisational skills and the ability to prioritise to meet deadlines
- Keen to pursue personal development needs and maintain up-to-date knowledge
Desirable
- Degree-qualified or equivalent, but with appropriate experience and knowledge
- Wide experience of the civil engineering industry with a reasonable degree of water industry experience
- CSCS card
Benefits:
As well as offering a competitive salary, remuneration for this role includes a range of benefits
- 5% Company pension contribution
- Life Assurance at 2 x notional salary
- Single person’s private medical cover
- Permanent Health Cover
- Company Profit Share Scheme
- Company car / or car allowance (Dependent on position)
- Career Development and ongoing training
- Staff Referral Scheme
- 25 days annual leave with additional loyalty days (Full-Time equivalent)
- Volunteering Scheme
- Environmental and Social Value initiatives
About Barhale:
Barhale is one of the largest privately-owned civil engineering and infrastructure specialists with 40 years of experience working UK-wide across the water, transport, built environment and energy sectors. Founded by our Chairman, Dennis Curran in 1980, the group was originally set up as a specialist tunnelling contractor. While we retain our tunnelling roots, repeated success in several construction industry sectors has enabled us to expand our skillset and become one of the largest privately-owned infrastructure specialists in the UK.
What we do
We provide design, construction, and maintenance services to the following sectors.
- Water
- Transport
- Energy
- Built Environment
We also possess a range of specialist skills to support our civil engineering and infrastructure activities including
- Tunnelling
- MEICA capabilities
- In-house design
- A steel-fabrication and supply subsidiary (BCS Group)
Who we are?
Barhale operates as a tier-1 partner for blue-chip, regulated, and private clients. We work as part of large frameworks, joint ventures, and alliances and on individual projects developing long-standing relationships based on Trust, Integrity, and Pride.
Our People
We employ a direct workforce of over 1,000 employees nationwide. We recognise that our business is only as good as the people we employ, which is why we value them so highly and invest in regular training and development, utilising our dedicated training facility in Walsall.
Our commitment to career progression, personal development, innovation, collaborative working, diversity and Inclusion, health and wellbeing and work-life balance is what makes us a Gold Investors in People Company.