Quantity Surveyor

At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40+ countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.
In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

About the opportunity:

Jacobs Engineering is the Nuclear Design and Engineering partner for Sellafield Ltd under the PPP (Programme and Project Partners). PPP is an exciting model to work in with Four world class organisations who have come together as one team, to create a clean and safe environment for future generations.

The programme arrangement is set to deliver ~£7bn worth of major projects creating a lasting legacy through the long-term partnerships.

We are continually recruiting high value expertise from across regulated and comparable sectors to work in a collaborative environment. PPP is continually delivering major projects over the next couple of decades, so there are lots of opportunities to develop your careers with a leading multinational company that put people first.

Being part of the PPP Team offers a unique opportunity to cultivate change and creativity in engineering, safety, and delivery solutions in one of the most complex industrial sites in the UK, if not the world.

Not only do we have an important national purpose at the heart of what we do, we get to do our work in two brilliant locations in the North of England. Therefore, if you are looking for a new opportunity and are passionate about developing yourself then we want to hear from you.

As a result of an increasing portfolio of projects, we are currently looking for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join the team in Cumbria.

The role of the Senior Quantity Surveyor is to provide commercial expertise to aid with the delivery of the contracted work by taking the commercial lead in a geographical focused team. The provision of acurate and timely commercial reports and advise to the management team whilst ensuring the contract achieves the appropriate commercial targets.

Responsibilities:

* Ensure the project and programme contract, cost, quality and time targets are met.

* Ensure prompt and regular submission of main contract payment applications and ensure that the subcontractor payments are dealt with fairly and in accordance with subcontract terms.

* Maintain and coordinate all commercial reports required for the successful commercial management of the contract.

* Provide key information across the contract team.

* Obtain maximum recovery through accuarate measurement of the works completed.

* Ensures all subcontractor commercial issues are resolved and payments are timely and correct.

Qualifications

* BSc in Quantity Surveying (or equivalent commercially related discipline)

* Working towards professional membership of an appropriate organisation (RICS/CIOB)

* Knowledge of company management systems (COINS/Sphere/Commercial Manager)

* Commercial and contractual knowledge, in various forms of contract

* Experince of managing Quantity Surveyors on a large contract