Project Quantity Surveyor
Company
Location
West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
6/14/2025
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Description
Job Description
Costain have won extensive work across the water sector this year to support the AMP 8 investment cycle. We have continued our relationship with Severn Trent Water (STW) in delivering their AMP8 programme with contracts valued up to c.£410m to Costain over 5 years.
The role of Project Quantity Surveyor is to provide commercial support on projects to ensure that it is procured, delivered within budget and to the highest quality whilst exceeding our customers' expectations.
Responsibilities
Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase.
We do share individual feedback following an interview .
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.
It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign
Costain have won extensive work across the water sector this year to support the AMP 8 investment cycle. We have continued our relationship with Severn Trent Water (STW) in delivering their AMP8 programme with contracts valued up to c.£410m to Costain over 5 years.
The role of Project Quantity Surveyor is to provide commercial support on projects to ensure that it is procured, delivered within budget and to the highest quality whilst exceeding our customers' expectations.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop the efficient and effective management and issue of accurate, timely and compliant notices and correspondence and ensure the compliance of all contractual activities on the project
- Project day to day guidance, and provide strategic advice to technical and construction staff for matters having significance to the projects, risks and commitments
- Ensure contractual and commercial risks and opportunities are identified to the Project Director / Commercial Manager and address in a timely manner
- Maintain registers of variations, delays, extension times and claims, effective and consistent implementation of the Company's commercial policies and procedures
- Assist with preparation of monthly progress valuations and claims for work completed
- Liaise with employer commercial & client teams within a collaborative manner to leverage opportunity and optimise the project outturn
- Produce pre-Contract tender negotiations & reports where necessary
- Produce monthly cost reports, accurate and regularly updated forecasts, and contract budget reports to ensure details are appropriately underpinned and robust. This will involve regular visits to site and working with site team and collaborative planning board to ensure that forecast reflects all works required to be undertaken including resources
- Review value management / value engineering exercises
- Prepare, review and complete sub-contract documentation
- Prepare & agree final accounts with sub contractors
- Be fully responsible and accountable for procurement and management of subcontracts from initial placement of order to final account
- Monitor and update procurement plan, sub-contract procurement including analysing commercial comparisons
- Proactively liaise with the site team and reconcile weekly plant, material, labour reconciliation against budget
- Understand and evaluate entitlements to extensions of time / loss & expense / claims and/or disputes relating to outstanding payments to sub-contractors
- Significant commercial experience preferably within the Water Sector
- Experience of NEC form of Contract
- Increasing knowledge of a variety of forms & options of contracts
- Have a good understanding and experience of business systems, spreadsheet development, cost analysis, programme evaluation and development, compensation event and/or variations assessment and evaluation
- Have experience or appreciation of the risk management process for both schedule and cost and the use of Earned Value Management
- Full Clean Drivers Licence
- Relevant degree in Quantity Surveying or equivalent and RICS / CMinstCES qualified or finalising qualification
- Hold or be nearing completion of Full Membership with RICS / CIECS
Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase.
We do share individual feedback following an interview .
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.
It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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