Quantity Surveyor

Job description

ENGIE is a leading energy and services company focused on three key activities: production and supply of energy, services and regeneration. Our 17,000 employees combine these capabilities for the benefit of individuals, businesses and communities throughout the UK & Ireland. 

We enable customers to embrace a lower carbon, more efficient and increasingly digital world. Our customers benefit from our energy efficient and smart building solutions, the provision of effective and innovative services, the transformation of neighbourhoods through regeneration projects, and the supply of reliable, flexible and renewable energy. 

ENGIE improves lives through better living and working environments. We help to balance performance with responsibility, enabling progress in a harmonious way. 

Globally, the ENGIE Group employs 160,000 people worldwide and achieved revenues of €60.6 billion in 2018.

ENGIE are recruiting for a Quantity Surveyor to be based in Belshill, ML4 3NJ. This is a permanent full-time role working 39 hours per week. On offer is a competitive salary, company vehicle or allowance and benefits package. 

This role is a Quantity Surveying position within the Development Department. The Development Department’s main commercial roles include all Bid/Pre-Construction Commercial & Contractual Risk Management, Project Value Engineering and Subcontract Procurement for Critical Path work packages.

 

You will need to take responsibility, ownership and accountability of the successful management and control all aspects of the commercial / financial and contractual elements of the pre-construction (and early construction) stage of a project in order to administer and maximise the company’s profitability, protect the companies legal and contractual obligations under the contract and to manage proactively the control of all associated commercial issues.

 

Although this role will, in part, relate to traditional tendered projects a large focus for this position will relate to Land-led Development which will increasingly become a greater stream of income to the Scottish Region over the coming years. This will include producing and maintaining project-specific cost appraisals. The role will also include ensuring any applications and valuations are completed in line with the contract terms and also ensuring sub-contractors/design teams receive prompt payment and are procured in line with our contractual obligations and Commitments to Subcontractors.  In addition, ensuring cost reports and the like are managed, completed on time and monitored.  To understand, implement and adhere to the company SHEQ policy/strategy and Ethics guidelines.

 

Furthermore, there will be a wider obligation to improve commercial best practice in order to produce transparent, data-driven feedback which will result in better efficiencies, loss-making mitigation, improved supply chains and increased profitability.

Required Qualifications, Skills or Experience: 

·  Excellent verbal communication skills
·  Excellent level of numeracy
·  Excellent influencing skills
·  Report writing
·  IT skills – MS Office, Excel, Project, Word etc
·  Collaborative working in particular with Design Teams/Client’s QS.
·  Industry experience in the role of a Quantity Surveyor
·  Industry experience in New Build projects
·  Experience in Traditional and Design and Build projects
·  Post graduate experience within a surveying position reporting to either a senior surveyor or a commercial manager

For more information about ENGIE, please visit: http://www.engie.com/en/candidates-area/ 

For this role, you must have evidence of the right to work in the UK. There is no re-location package with this job role. ENGIE do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community. 

The ENGIE Resourcing Team supports this job advert. Agency involvement is not required. All related enquiries must come to the resourcing team not direct to ENGIE Managers. 

If you are a disabled applicant and meet the minimum outlined in the job description, you will be given the opportunity to demonstrate your abilities at interview. 

Additional Information
·  Posting Date: Oct 9, 2019