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Senior Quantity Surveyor

Job Description

Are you an experience Senior Quantity Surveyor looking for your career step?

We are recruiting for a Commercial Manager to join our team on the Ellison Institute of Technology in Oxford!

** we are willing to offer to mobility / lodge for those not within commutable distance **

Role responsibilities:

• Form an integral part of the multidisciplinary sub-teams responsible for project delivery and client service.
• Support the interim applications for payment and agreements.
• Management, administration, and settlement of subcontractors' accounts, including accountability for those delegated to your team.
• Preparation and management of any claims.
• The flexible management of staff to provide an effective commercial service for the business.
• Providing junior members of staff inside and outside of function with support and guidance on their job responsibilities.
• Negotiating with client's representatives, sub-contractors, and other consultants to achieve project results whilst maintaining group relationships.
• Input into contractual implications of intended courses of action.
• Advise and manage commercial risks within the project or projects.
• Input and support the preparation of monthly contract review reports, communicate key risk, opportunity and change with transparency, in a timely manner.
• Support preparation and issue of weekly Business Plan Review (BPR) information.
• Identify change and implement the change control process and agreement in a timely manner.
• Ensure that contract documents are properly executed prior to project commencement.
• Adopt appropriate measures for management of risk.
• Keep your manager fully advised of any issue/risk which has arisen or might arise and which could affect the business/project.

What are we looking for?

• Proven JCT experience.
• Direct delivery experience.
• Structures experience is preferable but not essential.

About us:

Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality - this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the 'Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please get in touch.

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