Commercial Assistant

Commercial Assistant

Rail / Civil Engineering Infrastructure

Location – Warrington, North West

Region - North West & Central

Due to continued growth and CP7 contract award in the NW&C region, an outstanding opportunity to join an established, national contractor as a Commercial Assistant supporting an expert team of commercial professionals contributing to profitable performance of our portfolio of works throughout the region. This role provides an excellent platform for long term personal and professional development.

Business Unit

A busy and fast paced project environment with an expansive portfolio of civils projects underway including a line side rail civils contracts, bridges and structures renewals, large structural installations including new bridges, Access for All (AFA) schemes and general civils works.

Projects can typically include bridge upgrades and refurbishments, station work (platforms etc), access for all schemes, structures including bridges and footbridges, line side civils etc.

The Role

As a Commercial Assistant you will form an integral part of our expert commercial team in the North West & Central region supporting Asset Management maintenance and renewals works as well as civils and buildings projects throughout the region.

You will work closely with the Quantity Surveyors, Senior Quantity Surveyors and Commercial Management team providing commercial and administrative assistance. Your responsibilities will comprise of providing Commercial support to the team:

• Sub-Contractor – Payments, Procurement, Liabilities for CVR
• Weekly Reports - Job Tracker
• Create & Process order requests.
• Compilation of final account packs for Network Rail and other clients
• Obtaining signed completion certificates and chasing information from internal staff
• Distribution of completed SI's for estimating.
• Various CVR data manipulation exercises
• Distribution of Technical Query forms to client and dealing with responses
• Gathering Final Account Information
• Organising Final Account Information to be signed off and sent to clients for payment.
• Issuing Site Inspections to the relevant QS to be estimated
• Submitting estimates on to system for client approval.
• Ensuring all Completion Paperwork & Estimates are filed.

Requirements

This role requires a well-organised and pro-active candidate with previous administration experience in a commercial team within the construction industry.

To excel in this role, you will hold:

• excellent communication – verbal and written
• IT skills (Microsoft Excel)
• a keen eye for detail and ambitions to progress with a career in Quantity Surveying.

In return

• Competitive annual salary negotiable dependant on experience
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (increasing with service)
• Up to 3 volunteer days
• Company contributory Pension scheme
• Life Insurance
• Westfield Health Cash Plan & Westfield Rewards
• Generous Employee referral scheme
• Support and employee infrastructure embedded in the business as a platform for personal and professional development creating pathways for unrivalled career development and progression opportunities internally.
• Consistent learning opportunities
• A safe place to work
• Employee forum’s that provide a platform for having your voice heard

AmcoGiffen has a wealth of experience working on sensitive, live assets in highly regulated environments, we deliver exceptional peace of mind for our customers, creating and maintaining assets across a growing range of high-quality public and private sectors. These include rail, power generation, electricity distribution, flood defence, and waterways.

AmcoGiffen is an Equal Opportunities Employer and we offer challenging and worthwhile careers to everyone. It doesn’t matter to us what your age, disability, employment status, gender, health, marital status, sexual preference, membership or non-membership of a trade union, nationality, race, religion or social class are, or indeed any other personal characteristics not directly related to the relevant job. Anyone who meets the requirements of the job is eligible for employment with AmcoGiffen.