Quantity Surveyor

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive. 

Where will you be working?

We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards.  We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.

This role will be within our clean water team safeguards the quality, reliability, and performance of drinking water across our region. We work across complex network systems, enhancing, maintaining, installing, and repairing infrastructure from pipes to water meters, to ensure consistently high-water quality. Through proactive network management and resilient engineering, we help ensure communities have safe, dependable water supplies every day. 

Want to be a part of it?

What will you be doing? 

As our Quantity Surveyor you'll be working on our Water Network Alliance contract in Wales. You'll be part of our commercial team who are responsible for delivery of all commercial task on the Welsh Water Framework. 

• Be an integral member of the Commercial Team, led by the Managing Quantity Surveyor
• Build a strong relationship with client counterparts
• Ensure all M Group Water and Client processes are followed to minimise WIP (outstanding cash) and keep WIP within the contract and business target
• Ensure cash is received on time at forecast level
• Production of Monthly CVR’s
• Manage and price change within the terms of the contract
• Provide support for pricing contracts working closely with the client
• Assist the procurement and management of sub-contractors and other suppliers
• To develop and implement changes to process, following understanding of a need to make changes to improve performance
• Produce and present productivity measures linked to the operations resource to ensure tender compliance

What you'll bring

• Do you have excellent negotiation skills?
• Do you have knowledge, understanding and previous experience of NEC contracts?
• An awareness of all relevant statutory, regulatory and company policies and guidelines
• Are you able to react to constant changing workloads?
• Knowledge of service delivery within the utilities sector is desired
• Good organisational skills and effective communication skills
• Do you have experience in cost role desired with knowledge of sub-contracts?

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;

• Contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year 
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme
• Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!

In addition, this role offers;

• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
  
• Private health care – single cover
• Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Discretionary bonus scheme

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3 rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.

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