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My client is a leading civil engineering contractor based in the West Midlands. They are in the market for a freelance Senior Quantity Surveyor to lead & support the commercial functions on multiple projects (£1m to £100m) as part of a major civil engineering contract with HS2. The ideal candidate will have: - 5-10 years (minimum) Senior Quantity Surveying experience working for a contractor. - NEC contract experience. Apply now with an updated CV and/or for more information, contact Dan Bowen on (phone number removed)

My client is a leading civil engineering contractor based in the West Midlands. They are in the market for a freelance Senior Quantity Surveyor to lead & support the commercial functions on multiple projects (£1m to £100m) as part of a major civil engineering contract with HS2. The ideal candidate will have: - 5-10 years (minimum) Senior Quantity Surveying experience working for a contractor. - NEC contract experience. Apply now with an updated CV and/or for more information, contact Dan Bowen on (phone number removed)

My client is a leading civil engineering contractor based in the West Midlands. They are in the market for a freelance Senior Quantity Surveyor to lead & support the commercial functions on multiple projects (£1m to £100m) as part of a major civil engineering contract with HS2. The ideal candidate will have: - 5-10 years (minimum) Senior Quantity Surveying experience working for a contractor. - NEC contract experience. Apply now with an updated CV and/or for more information, contact Dan Bowen on (phone number removed)

Site Agent – Civil Engineering / Major Project We currently have exciting Site Agent opportunities working for one of the largest and most renowned building contractors. This opportunity falls under their Regional Civil Engineering division based out of their Birmingham offices and covers a regional patch affording their staff members local work and the opportunity for career progression into more senior roles. Projects range from £10-£50m in value and include Highways and General Civil Infrastructure schemes. As such candidates will ideally come from a contractor background and have experience delivering similar schemes. The first point of call will be on Northampton on a £20m highways scheme, then after this it will be within a radius of Solihull. Requirements: • CSCS, SMSTS and other relevant professional qualifications. • Civil Engineering Degree or equivalent (preferable). • Proven track record delivering Highways schemes as a Project Manager. • Past experience working for a Tier 1 or Regional Civils contractor. On Offer: • £55,000 - £65,000 basic salary (DOE) however the client is interested in reviewing Senior Project Manager’s details who may be outside of this salary banding. • £5,400 car allowance or company car. • Healthcare. • Pension. • Up to 20% bonus. To express your interest please contact Ben Symonds at Kenton Black Birmingham

Site Engineer required freelance role setting out engineer - Whitchurch North Shropshire - Setting out Engineer / Site Engineer OUTSIDE IR35 The job is doing the groundworks and Civils elements on a new build retirement home - ie Groundworks Drainage roads (Section 38s) ETC This is for the groundworks contractor on site and you must have CSCS and be a solid Setting out engineer with CAD and ideally GPS knowledge

Site Engineer required freelance role setting out engineer - Whitchurch North Shropshire - Setting out Engineer / Site Engineer OUTSIDE IR35 The job is doing the groundworks and Civils elements on a new build retirement home - ie Groundworks Drainage roads (Section 38s) ETC This is for the groundworks contractor on site and you must have CSCS and be a solid Setting out engineer with CAD and ideally GPS knowledge

Project Manager Reading Civil Engineering – Infrastructure and Highways We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join a privately owned regional civil engineering contractor with a turnover in the region of £100m. The business has over 50 years trading history and operates across multiple regions in the UK, delivering award winning civil infrastructure projects for a range of local authorities and private clients. They are keen to speak to Project Managers from a main contracting background with experience delivering civil infrastructure projects including the construction of roads, public realm, structures, section 278 and 38 works, with a sound understanding of drainage and earthworks works. Our client is currently extremely busy with new infrastructure schemes located across multiple regions including Doncaster, Leicester, Northampton, Bedford, Cambridge, Bury St Edmunds, Crawley, Canterbury, Basingstoke or Reading. Competencies: • Degree educated in relevant field. • Relevant construction qualifications including CSCS card. • Based in a commutable distance to the project. • Relevant project experience. Salary / package: • £65,000 basic salary (negotiable on candidate experience) • Company car or car allowance • Good pension scheme • 26 days holiday + banks holidays Please contact Chris Wright for more information at Kenton Black Birmingham

Project Manager Basingstoke Civil Engineering – Infrastructure and Highways We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join a privately owned regional civil engineering contractor with a turnover in the region of £100m. The business has over 50 years trading history and operates across multiple regions in the UK, delivering award winning civil infrastructure projects for a range of local authorities and private clients. They are keen to speak to Project Managers from a main contracting background with experience delivering civil infrastructure projects including the construction of roads, public realm, structures, section 278 and 38 works, with a sound understanding of drainage and earthworks works. Our client is currently extremely busy with new infrastructure schemes located across multiple regions including Doncaster, Leicester, Northampton, Bedford, Cambridge, Bury St Edmunds, Crawley, Canterbury, Basingstoke or Reading. Competencies: • Degree educated in relevant field. • Relevant construction qualifications including CSCS card. • Based in a commutable distance to the project. • Relevant project experience. Salary / package: • £65,000 basic salary (negotiable on candidate experience) • Company car or car allowance • Good pension scheme • 26 days holiday + banks holidays Please contact Chris Wright for more information at Kenton Black Birmingham

Project Manager Canterbury Civil Engineering – Infrastructure and Highways We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join a privately owned regional civil engineering contractor with a turnover in the region of £100m. The business has over 50 years trading history and operates across multiple regions in the UK, delivering award winning civil infrastructure projects for a range of local authorities and private clients. They are keen to speak to Project Managers from a main contracting background with experience delivering civil infrastructure projects including the construction of roads, public realm, structures, section 278 and 38 works, with a sound understanding of drainage and earthworks works. Our client is currently extremely busy with new infrastructure schemes located across multiple regions including Doncaster, Leicester, Northampton, Bedford, Cambridge, Bury St Edmunds, Crawley, Canterbury, Basingstoke or Reading. Competencies: • Degree educated in relevant field. • Relevant construction qualifications including CSCS card. • Based in a commutable distance to the project. • Relevant project experience. Salary / package: • £65,000 basic salary (negotiable on candidate experience) • Company car or car allowance • Good pension scheme • 26 days holiday + banks holidays Please contact Chris Wright for more information at Kenton Black Birmingham

Project Manager Crawley Civil Engineering – Infrastructure and Highways We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join a privately owned regional civil engineering contractor with a turnover in the region of £100m. The business has over 50 years trading history and operates across multiple regions in the UK, delivering award winning civil infrastructure projects for a range of local authorities and private clients. They are keen to speak to Project Managers from a main contracting background with experience delivering civil infrastructure projects including the construction of roads, public realm, structures, section 278 and 38 works, with a sound understanding of drainage and earthworks works. Our client is currently extremely busy with new infrastructure schemes located across multiple regions including Doncaster, Leicester, Northampton, Bedford, Cambridge, Bury St Edmunds, Crawley, Canterbury, Basingstoke or Reading. Competencies: • Degree educated in relevant field. • Relevant construction qualifications including CSCS card. • Based in a commutable distance to the project. • Relevant project experience. Salary / package: • £65,000 basic salary (negotiable on candidate experience) • Company car or car allowance • Good pension scheme • 26 days holiday + banks holidays Please contact Chris Wright for more information at Kenton Black Birmingham

Project Manager Bury St Edmunds Civil Engineering – Infrastructure and Highways We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join a privately owned regional civil engineering contractor with a turnover in the region of £100m. The business has over 50 years trading history and operates across multiple regions in the UK, delivering award winning civil infrastructure projects for a range of local authorities and private clients. They are keen to speak to Project Managers from a main contracting background with experience delivering civil infrastructure projects including the construction of roads, public realm, structures, section 278 and 38 works, with a sound understanding of drainage and earthworks works. Our client is currently extremely busy with new infrastructure schemes located across multiple regions including Doncaster, Leicester, Northampton, Bedford, Cambridge, Bury St Edmunds, Crawley, Canterbury, Basingstoke or Reading. Competencies: • Degree educated in relevant field. • Relevant construction qualifications including CSCS card. • Based in a commutable distance to the project. • Relevant project experience. Salary / package: • £65,000 basic salary (negotiable on candidate experience) • Company car or car allowance • Good pension scheme • 26 days holiday + banks holidays Please contact Chris Wright for more information at Kenton Black Birmingham

Project Manager Cambridge Civil Engineering – Infrastructure and Highways We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join a privately owned regional civil engineering contractor with a turnover in the region of £100m. The business has over 50 years trading history and operates across multiple regions in the UK, delivering award winning civil infrastructure projects for a range of local authorities and private clients. They are keen to speak to Project Managers from a main contracting background with experience delivering civil infrastructure projects including the construction of roads, public realm, structures, section 278 and 38 works, with a sound understanding of drainage and earthworks works. Our client is currently extremely busy with new infrastructure schemes located across multiple regions including Doncaster, Leicester, Northampton, Bedford, Cambridge, Bury St Edmunds, Crawley, Canterbury, Basingstoke or Reading. Competencies: • Degree educated in relevant field. • Relevant construction qualifications including CSCS card. • Based in a commutable distance to the project. • Relevant project experience. Salary / package: • £65,000 basic salary (negotiable on candidate experience) • Company car or car allowance • Good pension scheme • 26 days holiday + banks holidays Please contact Chris Wright for more information at Kenton Black Birmingham

Project Manager Bedford Civil Engineering – Infrastructure and Highways We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join a privately owned regional civil engineering contractor with a turnover in the region of £100m. The business has over 50 years trading history and operates across multiple regions in the UK, delivering award winning civil infrastructure projects for a range of local authorities and private clients. They are keen to speak to Project Managers from a main contracting background with experience delivering civil infrastructure projects including the construction of roads, public realm, structures, section 278 and 38 works, with a sound understanding of drainage and earthworks works. Our client is currently extremely busy with new infrastructure schemes located across multiple regions including Doncaster, Leicester, Northampton, Bedford, Cambridge, Bury St Edmunds, Crawley, Canterbury, Basingstoke or Reading. Competencies: • Degree educated in relevant field. • Relevant construction qualifications including CSCS card. • Based in a commutable distance to the project. • Relevant project experience. Salary / package: • £65,000 basic salary (negotiable on candidate experience) • Company car or car allowance • Good pension scheme • 26 days holiday + banks holidays Please contact Chris Wright for more information at Kenton Black Birmingham

Project Manager Northampton Civil Engineering – Infrastructure and Highways We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join a privately owned regional civil engineering contractor with a turnover in the region of £100m. The business has over 50 years trading history and operates across multiple regions in the UK, delivering award winning civil infrastructure projects for a range of local authorities and private clients. They are keen to speak to Project Managers from a main contracting background with experience delivering civil infrastructure projects including the construction of roads, public realm, structures, section 278 and 38 works, with a sound understanding of drainage and earthworks works. Our client is currently extremely busy with new infrastructure schemes located across multiple regions including Doncaster, Leicester, Northampton, Bedford, Cambridge, Bury St Edmunds, Crawley, Canterbury, Basingstoke or Reading. Competencies: • Degree educated in relevant field. • Relevant construction qualifications including CSCS card. • Based in a commutable distance to the project. • Relevant project experience. Salary / package: • £65,000 basic salary (negotiable on candidate experience) • Company car or car allowance • Good pension scheme • 26 days holiday + banks holidays Please contact Chris Wright for more information at Kenton Black Birmingham

Project Manager Leicester Civil Engineering – Infrastructure and Highways We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join a privately owned regional civil engineering contractor with a turnover in the region of £100m. The business has over 50 years trading history and operates across multiple regions in the UK, delivering award winning civil infrastructure projects for a range of local authorities and private clients. They are keen to speak to Project Managers from a main contracting background with experience delivering civil infrastructure projects including the construction of roads, public realm, structures, section 278 and 38 works, with a sound understanding of drainage and earthworks works. Our client is currently extremely busy with new infrastructure schemes located across multiple regions including Doncaster, Leicester, Northampton, Bedford, Cambridge, Bury St Edmunds, Crawley, Canterbury, Basingstoke or Reading. Competencies: • Degree educated in relevant field. • Relevant construction qualifications including CSCS card. • Based in a commutable distance to the project. • Relevant project experience. Salary / package: • £65,000 basic salary (negotiable on candidate experience) • Company car or car allowance • Good pension scheme • 26 days holiday + banks holidays Please contact Chris Wright for more information at Kenton Black Birmingham

Project Manager Doncaster Civil Engineering – Infrastructure and Highways We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join a privately owned regional civil engineering contractor with a turnover in the region of £100m. The business has over 50 years trading history and operates across multiple regions in the UK, delivering award winning civil infrastructure projects for a range of local authorities and private clients. They are keen to speak to Project Managers from a main contracting background with experience delivering civil infrastructure projects including the construction of roads, public realm, structures, section 278 and 38 works, with a sound understanding of drainage and earthworks works. Our client is currently extremely busy with new infrastructure schemes located across multiple regions including Doncaster, Leicester, Northampton, Bedford, Cambridge, Bury St Edmunds, Crawley, Canterbury, Basingstoke or Reading. Competencies: • Degree educated in relevant field. • Relevant construction qualifications including CSCS card. • Based in a commutable distance to the project. • Relevant project experience. Salary / package: • £65,000 basic salary (negotiable on candidate experience) • Company car or car allowance • Good pension scheme • 26 days holiday + banks holidays Please contact Chris Wright for more information at Kenton Black Birmingham

Project Quantity Surveyor - 2 year contract - outside IR35 The project is a multi-million pound mixed use development, comprising of 12 buildings. The complex will include scientific laboratories, research centres, distribution facilities, offices and communal areas. Project QS will be required to support the Project Manager. Be responsible for the delivery and financial outcome of a project, ensuring such activities are in line with the Commercial Strategy and meet all operational, financial, commercial, legislative standards and targets. Project Quantity Surveyor - Requirements • Educated to BA or BSc Degree Level with a Minimum 5 years’ experience in a similar role • Experienced working with Project Teams and Client Surveyors in either a main contracting or project delivery environment • Experience of NEC3/NEC4 Contract Forms • RICS or CIOB Membership Preferred Project Quantity Surveyor - Responsibilities • Support the bid process, particularly identifying significant risks within enquiry documentation, terms and conditions and similar. • In accordance with the Project requirements, manage all contractual change control, including timely agreement with customers and subcontractors. Contractual issues to be managed with the Project Manager, supported by the Senior Quantity Surveyor as necessary • Build positive relationships with subcontractors, ensuring subcontracts are properly let. • Ensure Financial and Contractual Control of Sub Contractor accounts, assess and agree variations. Assess and settle final accounts in accordance with Company Procedures. • Contribute positively to the effectiveness of project team commercial performance, including advising Project Managers and their teams on key risks/opportunities in customer contracts. • Effectively participate as necessary in the validation of projects won, interrogating and reporting periodic reviews of forecast profit, turnover and cash receipts for all projects together with active risk and opportunity management. • Manage all potential and actual changes to the scope of work, ensuring all variation orders are received and costs are agreed at the appropriate time. • Prepare comprehensive information and assess the impact on cost change, installation periods and project completion. Advise client at the earliest opportunity including the provision of correct notices within the required timescales. • Preparation and submission of Interim application for payment, analysing payment notices and monitoring cash receipts. • Progress recovery of outstanding debts and resolution of financial exceptions. • Prepare and produce ongoing cost reconciliation and monthly project forecast reporting • Develop proactive and appropriate relationships with both internal and external stakeholders; to provide the appropriate guidance to make good business decisions

Quantity Surveyor Worcester Civil Engineering Our client has an exciting opportunity for a Quantity Surveyor to work on a range of project including various environmental monitoring projects for several UK water companies. As a result they are keen to speak to Quantity Surveyors with a background working for civil engineering contractors, ideally within water infrastructure – this could include past experience working on planned / reactive maintenance frameworks. This role is based from their Worcester offices but also promotes hybrid working. The company is privately owned and has 20 years trading history. Due to it’s size the business has a tight knit team with an excellent working environment. They are industry leading experts in the field, delivering solution-based services across a range of industry sectors including Water, Construction, Infrastructure, Rail, Mining, Manufacturing, Leisure and Food & Drink sectors. Types of services range from consultancy, sewer and asset investigations, CCTV pipe inspections, connectivity surveys, large sewerage investigations, infiltration surveys, impermeable area studies, pollution investigations and domestic sewer blockage alarms, as well as flow monitor installation and maintenance. On Offer: • Up to £50,000 basic salary (this figure is negotiable dependent on experience) • Pension • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays • Hybrid working To express your interest please contact Chris Wright at Kenton Black’s Birmingham offices

Commercial Manager Derby Tier 1 Main Contractor – Civil Engineering We are recruiting a Commercial Manager for one of the UK’s largest and most successful civil engineering contractors. They currently have an opportunity for a Commercial Manager to oversee a £90 million scheme, encompassing all onshore civils works for a 765km high voltage link between the UK and Denmark, supplying sustainable electricity to 1.4 million homes with the installation of 68km of high voltage cabling across Lincolnshire. This opportunity provides continuity of work with the expectation of a lot more work down the east coast in the future pipeline of work. This is a leadership role, forming part of the senior leadership team for the project. Based from Derby offices this role also requires a site presence a couple of days a week. Other key parts of the project include opencut digs and drilling. There is a requirement to manage 3 commercial staff with development plans. It will be advantageous to have software experience is FIDIC silverbook but this can be trained and forms of contract. Criteria: • Someone who is innovative in the way risks and opportunities can be managed through commercial terms. • A good understanding of commercial agreements (joint venture agreements, contracts and internal trading agreements), and the ability to work with legal on their drafting. • Excellent time management skills (to get things done to a high standard very quickly). • An awareness of the quality assurance process for proposals before they are issued to the client. • Resilience and a determination to succeed to cope with the challenges and frustrations of a bidding environment. • Experience of highway infrastructure maintenance and scheme delivery and piling or other similar engineering disciplines. • Qualified to Degree level or equivalent in an engineering or associated discipline relative to the role. On Offer: • £85k basic salary (dependent on experience) • Car or allowance • Pension • Plus other benefits To express your interest please contact Chris Wright and Kenton Black’s Birmingham offices

Finishing Manager required for 2 years on project in Oxford. Finishing Manager will be working on an innovative science park, encompassing industrial and distribution units, high end offices, leisure and amenity facilities, educational centres and laboratories. Finishing Manager will be required to; • Implement all statutory and company requirements for managing Health & Safety on site. • Develop and implement detailed programmes. • Identify the quality expectations and embrace these in the quality plan. • Ensure the efficient and effective management of site logistics. • Hold and record documented site meetings with Sub-Contractor trades throughout the build. • Ensuring the build programme is delivered within time scale and budget. Finishing Manager will be responsible for all snagging, cladding, external finishes and detailed internals. Working in a friendly and driven environment, Finishing Manager will enjoy a long term engagement of 2 years. The role is classified as outside of IR35. CIS also welcomed. All applicants MUST be able to provide two references