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Balfour Beatty Highways maintain, manage and operate major highway networks across the UK and support local authorities creating communities where people want to live work and play.

We provide high quality asset strategy, management and planning consultancy services to a wide range of public and private sector customers. We provide specialist, reliable, sustainable and creative advice for asset management planning and implementation in the UK. We put our customers first and prioritise completing schemes safely, efficiently and to a high standard.

Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a terrific opportunity for a Senior Quantity Surveyor as part of the Connect Plus Services (CPS) team based in South Mimms, Leatherhead or Dartford.

Here at CPS we have an exciting opportunity to plan and deliver improvements projects around the M25 and adjoining network.

You will help us achieve the best outcomes for our network by delivering to time, cost and quality whilst supporting our wider objectives for zero harm and sustainability.

You will be working in our Central Procurement team, procuring subcontract packages for a range of different work streams including, Civils, Technology, IT, Maintenance and FM.

What you'll be doing

• Identify procurement requirements alongside Operational Teams.
• Update procurement register.
• Draft Project Package Acquisition Plan (PAP) which includes:
  • Identify budget
  • Assisting with preparation of scope of works
  • Select appropriate form of subcontract
  • Identify particular T&Cs (Collateral Warranty, Performance bond, PCG, Designer Waiver etc.)
  • Programme of works/ key dates
  • Accreditations (NHSS, ISOs)
  • Sign off approval from relevant stakeholders.
• Issue invitations to tender on eProcurement portal, Jaggaer.
• Respond to tender queries.
• Tender evaluation, scoring and final evaluation.
• Pre-award meetings.
• Subcontract drafting and approvals.
• Ensuring commercial governance is followed.
• Supporting audits.
• And procurement reporting.

Who we're looking for

• Good understanding of subcontract procurement experience
• Experience of procuring subcontractors using NEC suite of contracts (ECC & TSC)
• Detailed understanding of the operation of the NEC contract
• Membership of a relevant professional body and/or working towards a relevant professional qualification is desirable, such as RICS/CIOB/InstCES
• A valid CSCS card is required.

An excellent range of benefits awaits the successful candidate:

• An attractive / negotiated salary
• Company car or car allowance
• 42 base hours per week
• 25 days annual leave
• Company healthcare scheme
• Pension savings scheme
• Refer a friend bonus scheme
• A whole host of other BB staff employee bens (discounts, special offers etc

Why work for us

CPS is a joint Venture project with Balfour Beatty, AtkinsR alis, and Egis. We operate and maintain the M25.

The M25 is the busiest section of motorway in Europe and requires careful and efficient planning of work in order to deliver over 100m of annual investment in the highway infrastructure each year, in addition to planned and reactive maintenance activity.

If you have or are looking for a career in Highways working on the M25 will give you experience and challenge that no other highways project can offer

About us

CPS is a joint venture between Balfour Beatty, Atkins, and Egis.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business.

To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion.

Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans, and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

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