Quantity Surveyor (NY Highways)

To effectively carry out quantity surveying duties for assigned project/ projects.
Ensure that all the commercial matters of a project including procurement, risk, cost and
value reporting, forecasting and contractual matters are managed effectively. Provide
support to the project team on contract requirements
Ensure that projects are managed effectively and in line with NY Highways’ governance,
policies and procedures.
Work effectively with: Project manager; other project team members; client stakeholders;
designers; subcontractors, Commercial Team members, the legal and insurance
department, finance department, pre-construction procurement, and operational teams.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Financial accounts and commercial processes
Cost forecasting, management and control processes, including the use of contract
programmes, change and risk registers.
Profitability forecasts, cost/budget comparisons and cash flow.
Work to ensure the continual improvement of processes, procedures and demonstrate Value
for Money (VFM).
Ensure all commercial processes comply with NY Highways’ corporate governance and
comply with company and legal standards.
Assessment of financial performance through applying the quantity of work completed to
arrive at cost and value reconciliation reporting.
Apply the contractual and statutory provisions relating to applications for payment including
Contractor and Employer/Project Manager assessments, certificates and payment for both
interim and final accounts.
Preparation and evaluation of compensation event claims, and/or other claims based upon
contractual entitlement, and/or insurance claims.
OFFICIAL
Contract Management and Supply Chain Management
10. Assist with supply chain procurement and management.
11. Administration of contracts and/or subcontracts including payment mechanisms, change
procedures, and resolution of contentious issues, final accounts agreement and management.
12. Identification, recording, notification and negotiation of change in accordance with the
contract.
13. Evaluation of change through analysis of rates or compensation methods, and agreement of
the effects of change.
14. Familiar with standard forms of contract such as NEC, JCT.
15. Risk management.
16. Able to provide advice on contractual matters and formulating contractual correspondence.
17. Conflict avoidance, management and dispute resolution procedures.
18. Use of programmes for analysis and demonstration of delay and disruption and entitlement to
extensions of time.
Cost control
19. Possess a knowledge of the elements present in a project budget at pre-contract phase.
20. Have knowledge of the development of a cost plan or spread of a tender budget along with
identification of cost drivers.
21. Analyse and compare contract and subcontract tenders and tender budget information.
22. The effective utilisation of labour, plant, equipment, materials and sub-contractors.
23. Understand the effects of disruption on resources and progress.
24. Understand the causes of delay and their critical and non-critical effects on project
completion and entitlement to extensions of time.
25. Evaluation of recorded work through applying relevant financial assessment methods.
26. Understand the various uses of Bills of Quantities, Schedules of Rates, and Activity
Schedules and their preparation in accordance with standard methods of measurement.
27. Ensure that the PDR process operates effectively within your team and that end of year and
quarterly reviews are completed and submitted within the NY Highways timescales.
28. Manage your team in line with all the NY Highways policies and procedures and ensure that
employees are aware of their obligations under these.