Managing Quantity Surveyor

About the role Our projects are more than just your opportunity to make your mark. Theyre an opportunity to stretch, test and develop your expertise. Join our Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick team as a Managing Quantity Surveyor and you'll deliver complex work that really matters to our business, and the world around you. A Managing Quantity Surveyor is a very experienced QS who manages all costs relating on a large building and civil engineering projects or on a number of smaller ones What you'll be doing As a/an Managing Quantity Surveyor, you will have the following accountabilities: * Has a good knowledge of and adheres to the Companys GMCEs, BMS and other governance Business and Customer Awareness * Ability to mitigate potentially damaging situations * Communicate the good things Cost Engineering * Applies principles of cost management & elemental cost analysis including life cycle implications where required * Recognises and understands cost sensitive areas Estimating * Undertakes risk analysis in the context of construction * Manage the preparation of Target Costs Planning * Reviews progress of the project against the various programmes * Preparation of delay and disruption programmes * Monitors & controls critical elements of the process * Identifies & communicates threats to budget & programme * Report and explain the commercial progress to senior project staff * Cost Planning and pre-contract cost control * Manages commercial aspects with Customer and Stakeholders for their area of responsibility * Evaluate and negotiate tenders including Subcontractors and suppliers * Assess and identify risks and opportunities as part of risk management * Manages customer and stakeholder management for their area of responsibility * Advising and contractual matters and formulating correspondence * Undertakes benchmarking exercises & sets / monitors Performance indicators (KPI) * Manages recruitment of lower grades up to QS Who we're looking for You will have the following: * Initial calculations to the final figures * Significant experience in minimising the costs of a project and enhancing value for money, while still achieving the required standards and quality. * Will have a track record of managing a commercial team * A Chartered Member of the RICS, ICES or CIOB, * Act as a mentor to other commercial staff on their journey to becoming professionally qualified. Why work for us Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on. About us Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick (BBK) is a market leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions provider with over 100 years of engineering expertise. We design, install and maintain the systems that make building infrastructure work. Emphasising environmentally efficient technologies, digital construction and offsite manufacturing, our experienced teams deliver high quality solutions across the following sectors: Aviation, Buildings, Civils, Defence, Energy and New Build Nuclear. At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists. As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role