Senior Quantity Surveyor

Building a sustainable tomorrow

BAM Nuttall are looking to recruit an experienced and motivated Senior Quantity Surveyor who can strengthen our existing team, delivering large civil engineering projects across Scotland. The projects are predominantly within the energy infrastructure sector, building new substations to support Scotland’s transition to net Zero. We have positions available within our RIIOT2 Framework in locations across Scotland including Argyll, Orkney and Dounreay.

Your work environment

  • BAM operates a flexible working policy

Your mission

As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you will be responsible for the following:

  • Managing diverse projects, ensuring quality, timeliness, and cost-effectiveness, with an emphasis on adding value
  • Collaborating in joint venture projects, building productive relationships
  • Excelling in contract negotiation for optimized project profitability
  • Mentoring teams and enhancing operational capabilities
  • Showcasing exceptional collaboration and communication skills
  • Excelling in multitasking to meet deliverables without compromising quality
  • Manage, supervise and mentor your “reports” within the commercial structure
  • Provide and control strategy of commercial contacts with client’s representatives
  • Provide commercial contact with supply chain partners through pre-contract meetings, contract vetting and input to subcontract documents
  • Commercial management of subcontractors
  • Monitor the timely production of reliable cost performance data
  • Produce and present monthly / quarterly reports
  • Be responsible for the timely production of appropriate levels of applications for payments in accordance with the provisions of the conditions of contract
  • Providing commercial advice to the site team, and management on all contractual issues
  • Produce the financial assessment of insurance claims with insurer’s representatives
  • Manage time and workloads for yourself and your commercial team in a structured manner

Who are we looking for?

Necessary:

  • Successful experience at Senior Quantity Surveyor, or at Quantity Surveyor level looking to take the next step in your career, demonstrating effective core commercial skills
  • Experience of NEC forms of contract
  • Demonstrable ability to mentor and coach direct reports
  • Ability to establish and maintain collaborative relationships with the project team including the Client, Project Managers and Designers
  • Have the confidence and ability to work within a team environment, and to have a positive influence on outcomes.
  • Relevant qualification (Degree, HNC/D)

Advantageous:

  • Early Contractor Involvement experience
  • Experience of target cost contracts
  • Relevant Professional qualification (CICES/RICS)

What’s in it for you?

  • Competitive salary
  • A wide range of family friendly policies
  • Company car / car allowance / travel allowance
  • 8% matched pension contributions
  • Private healthcare
  • Life assurance
  • 26 days holiday
  • 2 wellbeing days
  • 1 volunteering day
  • Personal and professional development

BAM Nuttall is also committed to equality of opportunity in all its employment practices, and to developing policies that support work-life balance.

Who are we?

The art of building is about building for communities; it’s about building for life.

Where others stop, we go further, leading the way towards a sustainable tomorrow for us and future generations. As an industry leader, we raise the bar.

Our values: sustainable, inclusive, collaborative, reliable and ownership, enable us to achieve our ambitions. Today, tomorrow and every day.

Our recruitment process

For more information about the vacancy and our projects, please contact Zainab Rubbani, Recruiter, at Zainab.Rubbani@bam.com

BAM is committed to ensuring a fully inclusive recruitment and onboarding process, so if at anytime you feel you may need any reasonable adjustments, do not hesitate to speak with one of our team, and we will do our best to support you.

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