Senior Quantity Surveyor/Senior Cost Manager - Laboratories
Location: Surrey
Role Type: Permanent contract
My client, a leading global construction consultancy is looking to expand their team by hiring a Senior Commercial Manager or Associate Director level QS with experience of working on major scientific buildings, clean rooms, or laboratory projects.
The project: Our client is looking to transform their campus and how they operate while maintaining a world‑class science and research capability, retaining and developing specialist expertise, in a collaborative and health and safety conscious way.
This is a 10 to 15‑year, multi‑billion‑pound programme to redevelop their science campus in Surrey working collaboratively with the client and other partners for technical, cost assurance and technical assurance responsibilities. Delivery accountabilities span the full lifecycle of projects within the overall programme which encompasses sub‑programmes for enabling infrastructure (both temporary and permanent) and new science capability in a live environment on a site of national importance, maintaining logistics and operations at all times.
You’ll be responsible for:
- Conducting feasibility studies, advising on procurement strategies and contract selection, writing and undertaking procurement reports. Applying the value management techniques at the outset of a project.
- Managing, estimating and cost planning activities to include taking ownership of and presenting the final cost plan.
- Ensuring that final accounts are negotiated and agreed.
- Being a key interface with client, stakeholders and other consultants at all project stages.
- Handling of contractual frameworks and standard form of contract.
- Identifying and acting upon opportunities to improve cost management procedures, templates, products and hence improve the services provided to the clients.
- Identifying and acting upon ways to improve internal systems and processes.
You’ll need to have:
- Proven experience working in the construction sector involving projects that include laboratories, clean rooms or scientific buildings.
- Previous experience in a cost consultancy practice in a similar role.
- Previous experience working with public sector property and infrastructure clients beneficial.
- Knowledge of NEC and JCT forms of contract.
- Cost planning, budgeting and estimating experience.
- Previous experience of managing people and risk management.
- Knowledge of contract law and contractual frameworks relating to construction.
- Sound knowledge and ability to undertake and advise on contract administration.
- Knowledge of value engineering and life cycle costing.
- Strong understanding of industry best practice.
- Understanding of hot topic issues such as sustainability, social value, carbon reduction impacting public sector.
- Capex V Opex cost analysis/advice.
You’ll also have:
- A degree in quantity surveying/cost management or equivalent.
- Professional membership i.e. MRICS/RICS or working towards.
Please apply with CV, or arrange a call to discuss with jennifer.mcbride@peoplegroup.com
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