The Quantity Surveyor / Cost Engineer play a crucial role in supporting the Contract Management team, delivering a range of key strategic, operational, and transformational contracts, providing essential support and advice to the business.
The Quantity Surveyor / Cost Engineer ensures that the projects are completed within budget and on time. Their primary responsibility is to estimate and monitor costs throughout the project lifecycle, from initial planning to completion. This involves analysing project specifications, identifying potential risks, and developing cost, schedule and risk control measures to mitigate them.
Typical duties and responsibilities:
- Tender support
- Supply chain and subcontract management
- Client liaison across a the project
- Proactively manage the administration of contracts of varying values and complexity, ensuring compliance and contractual performance, including NEC4 Contracts.
- Proactively manage all contract communication, including creating and distributing action lists, meeting minutes, Early Warnings, Project Managers Instructions and Compensation
- Events, and accepting/rejecting Contractors Notifications.
- Maintain the Early Warning Register
- Manage savings, benefits and cost avoidance, and collate quantified, substantiated savings for Period End reports.
- Manage disputes/potential disputes through negotiation, collaborative working and escalation as required.
- Support the tendering and evaluation process, including advising on appropriate procurement strategy and contract and producing pre-tender estimates.
- Support the project's early warning register's maintenance, including valuing the likely cost consequence of each risk/opportunity. Managing notification via CEMAR.
- Manage the close-out of all assigned projects, implementing the close-out plan(s) to ensure all defects are recorded, warranties received, and contracts closed, as well as completion of financial close-out, including asset cost data for capitalisation purposes.
- Assess capability, identify development needs and support team members through the Development Assessment and / or Talent Management processes.
- Ensure record keeping is robust including regularly reviewing and updating commercial systems to ensure system data is accurate.
- Deputise for line manager for relevant programme area as appropriate.
What it takes to become a Quantity Surveyor / Cost Engineer
If you are in the early stages of your career and nuclear is your first choice, here are some of the different ways of starting a career as a Quantity Surveyor / Cost Engineer.
Early Career
To start your career as a Quantity Surveyor / Cost Engineer, you will need the following qualifications:
- 2 or 3 A levels, or equivalent, including maths and physics a degree in a relevant subject for postgraduate study.
- 4 or 5 GCSEs at grades 9 to 4 (A* to C) and A levels, or equivalent, for a degree apprenticeship.
- You may be able to apply for a place on an apprenticeship with construction companies, engineering firms, or government agencies. These programs provide hands-on training and classroom instruction while earning a salary and gaining experience.
University
Pursue a degree in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, or Civil Engineering with a conversion course. Try accredited programmes that offer courses in project management and cost estimating.
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