Senior Quantity Surveyor

Senior Quantity Surveyor

The Role:

BCS are seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor to work with its fabrications team.  The fabrications team delivers a variety of steelwork projects supporting major infrastructure works both within our group of companies and for external clients.  The role will cover traditional quantity surveying activities and see you demonstrating your commercial acumen, by identifying, recording, tracking and realising commercial opportunities, whilst mitigating business risk.

Key Responsibilities:

Commercial Strategy & Profitability

Drive the commercial management of projects to maximise profitability, monitor margin performance, identify risks and opportunities, and implement corrective actions where necessary.

Cost and Value Reporting

The preparation of monthly cost and value reports encompassing detailed forecasts and analysis of expected resource utilization, cashflow forecasts and risk and opportunities assessments.

Contract Review and Administration

The review of contracts to identify risks and suitability for acceptance and the administration of live contracts to ensure all notice requirements are met, full entitlements to payments and changes to contract sums are secured, and final accounts are signed off. Where appropriate support the resolution of commercial disputes through effective contract administration, negotiation and evidence-based submissions.

Process Improvements

Proactively work with the team to identify efficiencies in commercial processes and ways of working, propose and implement changes based on improvements identified.

Record Keeping

Ensure accurate records are kept of site activities and works delivered to ensure that variances from tender expectations are understood and all contract entitlements to additional payment are supported,

Supply Chain Management

The negotiation, placement and management of subcontracts ensuring procurement and administration in line with company processes.

Risk Management

Lead the identification, assessment and management of commercial risks and opportunities throughout the project lifecycle, maintaining appropriate risk registers and mitigation plans.

Key measures & targets:

The timely issue of all contractual notices and monthly reports, the full recovery of any contractual entitlements, supporting the team to deliver projects in line with tender expectations, the provision of accurate reconciliations and forecasts.

Key relationships:

The role will report of the Head of Commercial but will work closely with the Business Unit Director, Head of Fabrications and Head of Finance.

Person Specification:

The successful candidate is likely to meet all of the following criteria:

Essential

• Previous experience in fabrications
• Familiarity with IChemE/ NEC forms of contract and knowledge and understanding of Construction Law
• Previous experience in commercial management and procurement of subcontractors, including chairing regular meetings, measurement and control cycle, certificates, and accruals calculations
• Demonstrable experience in monthly forecasting and cost analysis.
• Excellent communication, numeric and computer literacy skills, proficient in Microsoft Office
• Excellent organisation and time management skills, with the ability to work effectively under tight deadlines

Desirable

• Member of RICS or other relevant professional body
• CSCS card
• HND/degree (or equivalent) in Quantity Surveying
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience in estimation
• Experience working for a direct delivery contractor

About BCS Group:

BCS Group, a subsidiary of Barhale Holdings Plc, is a privately owned company. We are a leading supplier of safety in the Midlands. We pride ourselves on providing a first-class service to all our customers, ensuring the right product or solution is delivered to the right location on time. With over 5,000 items within our core range, BCS Group can fulfil any order and ensure it is delivered directly via our dedicated transport fleet or those of our partners.

Manufacturing: Our capabilities include standard and bespoke signage, labels, temporary and permanent road traffic signs and bespoke steel fabrication/installation which includes footbridges, walkways, flooring, guardrails, ladders and tunnelling products.

Extensive Stock Range: Distributor of leading industry brands in PPE & clothing, traffic management, safety & lifting and site equipment products. These include Bollé, Pulsar, Globus, Rock Fall, Progarm, Portwest, Melba Swintex, Oxford Plastics, JSP, Nissen, Carters, Orafol, Crowcon, Radiodetection, Dräger, Ridgegear, and Plant Nappy.

Safety Equipment Servicing: Specialist safety & lifting repair, calibration and inspection since 1999. We have our own purpose-built maintenance and calibration facility for gas detection, cable avoidance, breathing apparatus and lifting equipment which along with our fully equipped mobile calibration unit is where all maintenance and repairs are carried out. Our staff are trained and fully qualified in the maintenance, calibration and inspection of a full range of specialist safety & lifting equipment.

Our People: With a direct workforce philosophy, the company culture is driven by our core values, which describe how we act day-to-day. We ensure all your needs are met through our national call centre and dedicated account management.

Triple Accreditation: ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, ISO 45001:2018 and ISO 50001:2011 standards, which means our customers can have complete confidence that we have an ongoing commitment to be a safe, efficient and responsible partner.

Caring and investing in you

As a Gold Investors in People company and a Sunday Times 100 Best Company to Work For, we are committed to investing in people. We are passionate about creating a working environment where people are supported throughout their careers, where people can enjoy security and be part of a company that cares about them.

From the moment you join us, your well-being and career aspirations will be supported by.

• Competitive salary
• Company Pension
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical
• 25 days annual leave in addition to 8 public bank holidays and loyalty days
• 8 hours volunteering
• Employee Assistance Programme to support your mental, physiological, and financial well-being.
• Flexible benefits via salary sacrifice
• Company car/green car scheme/car allowance/Van (dependent on position)
• Leadership & management training and coaching
• Regular line management engagement and appraisal to support your career progression.
• Development supported by internal and externally delivered training.
• Continuous service awards