Principal Quantity Surveyor
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Job overview
KBR is hiring a Principal Quantity Surveyor. KBR is seeking a Principal Quantity Surveyor to lead a commercial project team within the Project Controls and Commercial Services (PCCS) program for Sellafield Ltd. This role involves ensuring contract compliance, managing commercial reporting, and actively contributing to continuous improvement in Quantity Surveying. The successful candidate will handle complex procurement activities, including strategy development, negotiation, and contract management.
Key focus areas include Lead the team and support the Commercial Manager, Manage the commercial project team to required standards and expectations, and Ensure contract compliance and co-ordinate information as advice to Commercial Manager.
Important skills include Contract Compliance, Commercial Reporting, Continuous Improvement, Quantity Surveying, Collaborative Management Plan, and Building Strong Working Relationships.
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Full job description
Title:
Principal Quantity Surveyor
OVERVIEW
Project Controls and Commercial Services (PCCS) is the mechanism in which Sellafield Ltd have engaged KBR Ltd to provide Commercial and Project Controls Services to the portfolio of enterprise projects, in addition to the original PPP programme. Those services include the provision of some 150+ Commercial and Project Controls Professionals across the Sellafield Ltd network of Projects.
KBR’s rapidly growing nuclear team of teams is working at the forefront of the UK’s nuclear space on some of the most exciting new-build, defence and decommissioning programmes.
KBR was recently named a “Great Place to Work-Certified” company in 2024, an honour that underscores the company’s commitment to being a UK employer of choice for people who want to do work that matters.
Due to the nature of our work and security requirements, KBR does not offer sponsorship for this role. We can only consider applicants with the right to live and work in the United Kingdom
PRINCIPAL QUANTITY SURVEYOR
The role
Lead the team and support the Commercial Manager
Management of the commercial project team and ensuring they perform to the required standards and expectations.
Ensure contract compliance and co-ordinate that information as advice to Commercial Manager.
Manage the commercial project team, ensuring they perform to required standards and expectations
Responsible for maintaining standards across the project
Recommend appropriate commercial remedies for poor performance
Team Development & ensure they have the support needed
Accountability for all project internal and external commercial reporting
Delivery of internal and external commercial targets
Ensures the quality, timeliness and consistency of work produced by the team
The active contribution to continuous improvement to ensure quality & performance of Quantity Surveying
To work in compliance with the Collaborative Management Plan & be able to build strong working relationships and work collaboratively
The role will require the job holder to lead and manage as part of the commercial team to work on relatively large and complex procurement activities ranging from low value to multi-million-pound contracts.
This includes supporting of strategy development, cost & price analysis, negotiation, commercial risk assessment, contract placement, contract management & contract close out.
The Principal Quantity Surveyor will be expected to procure & manage multiple framework contracts in addition to bespoke procurements. The role will be expected to provide procurement & pre-contract advice to the SL buying team to aid in effective procurements.
Manage complex and routine procurement and supply chain management activities supporting strategy development, price analysis, negotiation and contract placement, management and close out within frameworks in order to contribute to the successful performance or programmes and/or projects and to support the achievement of Sellafield Ltd business objectives.
Essential skills and experience
Experience in the nuclear industry or other regulated industry preferred
Strong character and be detail orientated
Have strong NEC Contract Experience
Be able to manage the delivery of internal and external commercial targets
The role requires a broad and detailed knowledge of category management, procurement processes and wider commercial issues.
The role would require regularly working in the office so you would need to be located in a daily commutable distance.
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