Quantity Surveyor

Unleashing our potential, a business-wide strategy focusing on seven key priorities:

Sustainable innovation: Embedding sustainable improvements with an aim to be net zero.

Structure and Governance: Through monthly Performance review meetings and clear delegation of authority.

Business Development and Customer Relationship Management: Growing into new markets and developing relationships and strategies with new and existing customers.

Safety, Health and Wellbeing: implementing tiers of H&S management and bring the operational input to the fore.

People and inclusion: With specific training and succession planning.

Operational effectiveness: Enhancing our capabilities and strengthening the existing core of the business.

Digitisation: Through an internal Programme Management office, lean tools, and digital platforms.

Reporting to the Commercial Manager, you will assist the commercial team in providing support to the contract delivery team to ensure the profitability, cash management, cost control and accurate reporting of all schemes. Your role will require you to:

Capably submit applications and control credit processes

Understanding of income forecast and pricing of variations

Understanding of the change control system

Understanding of project risk

Production of cost value reconciliation (CVRs) with support

Produce cost to complete with support

Understanding the production of forecasting data

Understanding the costing process

Understanding the management of the full sub-contract cycle and input into sub-contract documentation.

Assisting with weekly cost to complete/budget reviews with the contract delivery teams.

Upload documentation as and when necessary, in line with business requirements.

Review weekly site records including allocation sheets and site diaries.

Attend project progress meetings.

Assisting with the preparation of monthly financial performance reports.

Gain experience outside of the commercial function to better understand the role of the business and the quantity surveyor within the business.

Aureos Rail expects all employees to conduct themselves in a safe professional manner, applying the following key behaviours across all aspects of their work.

Trust and respect

We act with integrity and treat everyone with respect.

We have an open and honest working environment in which everyone contributes effectively

We deliver on our commitments and support others across our team to deliver on theirs

Accountability and decision making

We ensure responsibilities are clearly defined and fulfilled, and that performance is managed fairly.

Everyone knows what is expected of them and how their job fits into the bigger picture

We include the right people in the right conversations, making decisions in an effective and timely manner; we take accountability for our actions and ownership of the outcomes

Communication and engagement

We are a high performing, collaborative team of effective communicators.

We willingly share information across the team to the benefit of all

When communicating, we provide clarity and seek feedback to ensure understanding

Constructive challenge

We are open to challenge and welcome diversity of opinion.

We welcome the opinions of others, even when they differ from our own

We challenge in a constructive and professional manner to promote success

Improvement and innovation

We challenge the status quo to find better ways of working.

Everyone in the team proactively shares ideas without fear

We learn from successes and mistakes to promote continual improvement

Targets for the Quantity Surveyor will be set and reviewed on a 6 monthly basis, aligned with the responsibilities and behaviours listed within this job description. The section below will be used to record key targets, which will align with Performance Reviews undertaken via the current Group process. The Trainee Quantity Surveyor is expected to:

Independently contribute to prompt payment of sub-contracts and maintenance of sub-contract liabilities and other trackers

Complete and well organised records

Contribute to the timely production of Cost and value reconciliations.

Maintain a professional development log and commit to continuous improvement.

Generous Salary

25 days Holiday plus Bank Holiday

Pension

Learning & Development opportunities

Assistance and wellbeing support

Cycle to work scheme

Employee benefits portal

On-site parking

Referral Scheme

Whether you are looking for progression in your new role or for your forever job, we will happily welcome your application.

Aureos are an equal opportunities employer, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.