Senior Quantity Surveyor

What you’ll be responsible for

Commercially managing a portfolio of large, complex capital projects across a range of engineering disciplines, ensuring best in class commercial and cost management that demonstrates value for money on all projects delivered. This will include:

1.        Providing professional, commercial and cost management of a number of capital projects simultaneously.  
2.        Providing support and advice to a team of project managers and project engineers on all aspects of commercial contract management within Frameworks.   
3.        Assisting with procurement and allocation of capital work to framework contractors.    
4.        Undertaking detailed cost analysis on tender returns for capital projects.   
5.        Preparing all aspects of works orders, ensuring all Welsh Water project approval processes are followed.    
6.        Validating and agreeing contract values and target costs with framework contractors.  
7.        Identifying, analysing and developing response to commercial project risks, ensuring risks are understood, valued and correctly allocated.   
8.        Carrying out monthly valuations of completed work and recommending for payment.   
9.        Managing the flow of financial information between finance, SAP teams, project managers and contractors.  
10.        Providing advice on contractual claims, early warning notices and compensation events.   
11.        Agreeing and signing off final accounts at contractor and project levels.   
12.        Undertaking appropriate ‘lessons learnt’ analysis upon project completion in order to ensure that there is a continuous improvement process applied.
13.        Assisting with dispute resolution between third parties and Welsh Water.
14.        Providing accurate and timely management information.
15.        Undertaking any other duties as required to meet the needs of the business.

Who you'll work with

Internal
•    Operations
•    Asset Strategy
•    Finance
•    Procurement
•    Welsh Water Leadership Team
•    All levels of management within Welsh Water

External
•    Regulators, Local Authorities, CCW, EA
•    Capital partners
•    Framework contractors, consultants and equipment suppliers

About you

The following Knowledge & Skills & Experience are essential unless otherwise stated:

• A degree qualification in Quantity Surveying or similar, preferably with a professional qualification or working towards
• Minimum of 5 years construction cost management experience
• Experience of working as part of a commercial team, ensuring value for money and good governance on construction projects
• Experience of working with NEC contracts
• Analytical and data interrogation skills and an ability to extract relevant information and present it in a logical and structured manner        
• Excellent people management and motivational leadership with a track record of delivering outcomes and achievement of key targets        
• Effective communication skills and the ability to translate initiatives into actions that are fully understood by the team        
• Ability to manage effective relationships with a variety of internal and external stakeholders to achieve business result
• Understand business risks and mitigation     
  
  

Good to know

The successful candidate will need a full driving license and ability to travel frequently as per business requirements. 

Flexible working, minimum 2 days a week in the office. Various office locations are available across North Wales.

For an informal discussion about this role, please contact: Sean.O’Rourke@dwrcymru.com

Benefits

As well as a market competitive salary, 33 days annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays), we offer a range of employee benefits and rewards including:

 
•             Option to buy additional annual leave up to 5 days per year
•             Enhanced employer pension contributions – Up to 11% employer contributions
•             Free Mortgage Brokering Services 
•             Enhanced family friendly policies
•             Progression opportunities, including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes
•             Gym and fitness discounts as well as high street shopping
•             Cycle to work scheme
•             Discount off all Welsh Water visitor attraction centres and gift shops
•             Car-leasing scheme and free on-site parking at all sites
•             Health CashBack scheme and access to an online GP service
•             An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family
•             Many more can be found here!  

 
 
Whilst also working for a not-for profit company that truly cares about earning the trust of customers everyday, and about looking after our beautiful environment
 
 
Please note, we may close this role sooner if required. We may also extend the original closing date depending on interest.
 
Due to the nature of the industry, we require satisfactory references, post offer medical clearance, and a criminal records Basic Disclosure check on all new employees joining the business. For some roles there may be additional checks and security clearance required, and this offer is subject all checks being satisfied. You will receive further information on how to complete these checks via email once you have accepted this offer.

Who we are

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water keep 3 million people healthy each day with safe, reliable water, and take away wastewater to clean, before returning it safely to our beautiful rivers and seas.

To be able to deliver high quality, essential services which help to protect the health of our customers, colleagues and our environment, we need the right people to deliver on our vision.  This is achieved by living our core values and demonstrating the core behaviours that underpin them.  The security of our people, assets and information is key to us, so we are looking for people who understand and comply with the company’s required security objectives.

We know that the most successful teams are the most diverse teams. Equality, diversity and inclusion provide the very foundation to our culture at Welsh Water. We want every individual to feel confident, proud and able to bring their whole selves to work. 

To ensure an improved representation in our workforce, applications are particularly welcome from minority groups including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people, Females, LGBT+, Non-binary and people with disabilities. Together we continue to build a workplace that not only celebrates the diverse voices of our colleagues but also represents each customer we serve.

In essence, ours is a company based on trust, openness, respect, commitment and honesty. A company that our colleagues are proud to work for.