Senior / Executive Quantity Surveyor
- Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- Permanent
- Full-time with flexible working and core hours
Gleeds is a leading global property and construction consultancy. Independent since 1875, we are proud to deliver award-winning projects around the world. We are an accredited Great Place to Work employer, with our people at the heart of everything we do.
Climate change and Sustainability is at the top of our agenda; we have been established within the energy sector for the past 40 years and have achieved significant growth in the past years as we contribute to a sector that will have trillions of pounds of investment over the next decade. Our teams are at the forefront of the change, managing life changing projects in Solar, Hydrogen, Nuclear, Renewables and Defence, and we want you to be part of that too.
We are looking to recruit a highly motivated and experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our team on a permanent basis. In this team you will play a crucial part in delivering projects into our Energy and Defence clients..
You will be based on site with suppliers working as part of our clients Manufacturing Supply Chain team closely working with suppliers and the Integrated Project Teams. This role covers outsourcing of scopes of work to Suppliers with the necessary capability and capacity. Your primary involvement will be to support the Cost management of the outsourced Supplier contracts through the reconciliation of supplier applications for payment on frequency basis set out in the agreed framework contracts. You will have experience of working on contracts with different pricing types. Whether that be Firm, Fixed, Cost plus, Ascertained.
Main duties:
- Liaising with Client stakeholders.
- Liaising with Supplier stakeholders (potentially at a senior level).
- Challenging the supplier / having difficult conversations.
- Track the suppliers daily labour numbers per project.
- Conduct daily walk arounds on the suppliers premises.
- Reviewing weekly labour reports.
- Reconciling monthly pay applications.
- Resolving payment disputes.
- Assessing and reviewing contract documentation associated with contract changes.
- Reviewing earned value management data / cost performance indexes.
- Maintaining records and cost trackers.
- Understanding the impact of inflation and price variation mechanisms on contract prices.
- Develop and maintain customer relationships both internal and external customers.
- To be able to access, have a clear understanding of and apply the Quality and SHE Management System documentation e.g. Process Instructions, Workmanship Standards, Risk Assessments etc. applicable to your work scope and to adhere to all quality and SHE rules and control measures.