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Working for local authorities, Balfour Beatty Living Places provide highways maintenance, street lighting and public realm services.
We improve every day through engaging with our customers, investing in our people and using the latest technology to create positive, more efficient long-term outcomes – ultimately creating communities where people want to live work and play.
Our solutions include consultancy, finance, design and maintenance of the entire streetscape. We’re shaping places, creating economic growth and meeting the needs of an ever-changing society.
Balfour Beatty Living Places has now created a new and exciting opportunity for a Quantity Surveyor to join our Living Places business Unit to work in Aylesbury.
Role purpose
To carry out the commercial management, administration and provide support to the Service Areas ensuring that the financial targets of the project(s) are achieved. To build meaningful relationships with our Clients and suppliers in conjunction with the Service Area teams.
What you'll be doing
As a Quantity Surveyor, your main responsibilities will be:-
- Participating in the management of Service Area budgets in conjunction with the Construction Managers, understanding fluctuations in margins against budgets, and agreeing changes and solutions with the Service Area teams and Senior QS prior to implementation;
- Developing experience and proficiency in constructions methods, processes and the review and commercial / cost implications of all technical and design information;
- Keeping immediate line manager informed of relevant issues and establish that key events and reports are communicated to staff with responsibility for the commercial management;
- Building confidence in the Service Area’s cost control by ensuring that all project status reports are updated monthly for significant changes and by regularly reviewing status reports and supporting schedules;
- Ensuring the procurement of sub-contractors is in line with the Balfour Beatty Group procedures and that the packages cover the scope of the works.
Who we're looking for
The following experience/qualifications are required:-
- Must be a team player but also able to work on own initiative;
- Highways maintenance experience;
- Must have a working knowledge of main forms of Contract including NEC & JCT;
- Understanding of procurement practices and forms of main and sub-contract;
- Customer / account management including proven communication skills.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.
About us
The way we live our lives is changing fast: where and how we live, work, travel, shop, relax and socialise. The evolving nature of our society means we all need to shape our environment to meet a complex array of individual and collective needs.
Wherever investment in these environments is needed, Living Places works in partnership with Local Authorities to consult, finance, design, build and manage the essential place infrastructure that local communities and national economies need to prosper and grow.
We are right at the heart of a dynamic ‘place shaping’ agenda that brings Local Authorities, local communities, Central Government, and the Private Sector together to create safe, sustainable, flexible and dynamic public spaces geared to community social need, economic growth and personal well-being as well as being environmentally sustainable.
The provision of maintenance services for highways is only a small part of what is really needed. Our focus has moved beyond the ‘road’ to deliver the potential of the ‘street’: a dynamic public place that connects and combines local community and business needs, encourages social interaction and helps pedestrians, motorists, bus riders, and cyclists to coexist safely. Building great public spaces with resource efficient assets enables functional, flexible and inspirational places to be at the heart of the community.
We value diversity and celebrate individual differences, believing that our inclusive culture helps the business continue to grow as a strong, dynamic and innovative organisation.
Balfour Beatty is a corporate signatory to WISE (Women in Science & Engineering) and a member of Stonewall's Diversity Champions programme. Our aim is to attract more people from diverse backgrounds to help us build on our inclusive culture. We are a member of the workingmums.co.uk Top Employers' Charter through which we demonstrate our commitment to enabling parents to progress and enhance their careers whilst managing the challenges of family life.
Balfour Beatty is also Gold Award holders in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
Job Reference: BBUK04598
