Trainee Assistant Quantity Surveyor

78524 - Trainee Assistant Quantity Surveyor

This Trainee Assistant Quantity Surveyor will report to the Commercial Manager - Commercial Services and will work within Commercial Management, Commercial Services, Connections based in our Bury St Edmunds office. You will be a permanent employee.

You will attract a salary of £35,061 and a bonus of 3%. This role can also offer blended working after probationary period (6 months) - 3 days in the office and 2 remote

Close Date: 17/03/2024.

We also provide the following additional benefits

• Annual Leave
• Personal Pension Plan - Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%)
• Tenancy Loan Deposit scheme
• Tax efficient benefits: cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Occupational Health support
• Switched On - scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers products.
• Discounted access to sports and social clubs
• Employee Assistance Programme.

Nature and Scope:

The Commercial Management Team within the Connections 'Projects' team is responsible for the financial and regulatory reporting for Connections 'Projects' for all three DNO areas (East Anglia, London & South-East) within UKPN. This role is based in Bury St Edmunds but may require some travel across the UKPN geographic area.

The role of the Trainee Assistant Quantity Surveyor / Assistant Commercial Analyst is to support the Commercial Manager to deliver improved financial performance and ensure compliance with regulatory reporting requirements.

Within the role you will get on the job training, to gain the necessary competence in stages to become an Assistant Quantity Surveyor within 12 - 24 months.

We are looking for a good level of numeracy and experience working with and analysing financial data from different formats to enable comparison and validation and conclusions to be reached in respect of the reasons for cost differences.

You will not get involved commercial contract activities with contractors and suppliers, but will be part of a team that delivers improvements in Commercial Awareness and Financial performance within Connections Projects. If you have, or are working towards a degree in Quantity Surveying, or wish to become a qualified Commercial Quantity Surveyor, this role may not be suitable.

Job Purpose:

The main activity involves financially reviewing completed jobs by comparing the planned work and costs with the actual work completed and costs incurred. The objective is to identify any differences and provide validation of the reasons for any cost differences.

This enables feedback to the Design and operational teams to try and ensure that both are as cost efficient as possible and provide objective feedback into pricing decisions.

Principal Accountabilities:

• You will undertake cost reviews of completed Connections jobs to compare the planned activities and costs with the actual work undertaken and costs incurred.
• Review on-going 'loss-making' jobs to try and identify if there are valid mitigating actions.
• Produce objective feedback to help understand cost differences and improve cost efficiency.
• Help facilitate meetings with the Design team and Field Engineers in respect of understanding cost differences and prevent re-occurrences.
• You will collate and undertake cost reconciliations so that relevant chargeable cost differences are recovered from or returned to Customers.
• Follow the 'Project Closure' process to ensure that the Regulatory reporting requirements are met.

Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Competencies

Essential

• Very good level of numeracy and proficient competence in using Excel and the ability to compile and analyse commercial and financial data to identify differences.
• Ability to ensure accurate review and compilation of data as credibility and integrity is essential.
• Confidence to challenge internal customers and team members to take appropriate actions and apply commercial logic.
• Experience compiling reports using financial data.

Health & Safety Responsibilities

Managers and supervisors carry both legal and company responsibilities for ensuring the health and safety of their employees, those under their control and those who might be affected by the work undertaken, i.e. public, visitors and employees of other organisations. This includes briefing individuals working for them and ensuring there is the necessary understanding, competence and application of requirements to work safely and without harming the environment.

Employees will ensure they understand the health and safety risks involved in their work activities and their responsibility to apply the controls needed to manage those risks to acceptable levels. Similarly where work activities can have an adverse impact upon the environment, and where there are legal requirements, employees will understand those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied.

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