Senior Quantity Surveyor

Job Description:

At IPS, you will apply your knowledge, skills, and passion to make a difference in the lives of people, solving complex challenges related to pharmaceutical, biotech, and animal health research and manufacturing facilities. We are looking for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our team at our office located in Manchester or Birmingham UK.

The Senior Quantity Surveyor is accountable to develop, progress and forecast all phases of the project costs using the most current industry practices and software. Provide cost planning leadership and integrate with engineering, procurement, schedule, technical & construction disciplines for seamless reporting to insure effective Capital Project Delivery.

• Responsible for project budget, invoicing, change control and cost forecasting for the entire engineering, procurement, construction and qualification (EPCQ) life cycle.
• Work in a highly collaborative and dynamic project environment. Collaborate with estimating, procurement and project management on project scope coordination, work package definition, contract development and bid analysis.
• Develop & evaluate project control budgets with input from partners including clients, estimating, vendors and contractors.
• Work with project team to agree contractor SOVs and certify progress, invoicing & payment. Follow-on with accounting to ensure alignment of project forecast with current funding and billings to client. Ensure appropriate back-up documentation for all phases.
• Actively manage change control process. Monitor cost trends & changes with follow-on validation & agreement of pricing. Process CO’s for approval and incorporation into contracts.
• Responsible for operation of integrated cost reporting platform. Produce detailed cost reports, including budgets, changes, commits (POs), spends, anticipated costs and forecast. Accountable for cost system data integrity as well as accuracy of overall project forecast.
• Ability to produce effective visualisation, graphics & outputs for team communication.
• Collaborate with partners & scheduling on alignment of cost & schedule data.
• Collaborate with team to support constructability and value engineering.
• Develop and continually update projections on cash flows, staffing plans & contingency usage.
• Provide financial and cost analysis as well as earned value and cost performance reporting.
• At project completion, develop and record the project’s historical cost information and “lessons learned”.
• Provide supervision and leadership for more junior department and project personnel.
• Collaborate with all groups to improve company processes, systems and intellectual infrastructure to promote organisational learning and continuous improvement.

Come join a caring, nimble team that delivers world-class designs for our pharmaceutical clients and take your career to new heights.

Qualifications & Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Construction Management, or a related discipline or an equivalent technical degree.
• Significant experience in Project Delivery, including Estimating and Cost.
• 10+ years relevant industry experience.
• IT skills and the ability to learn sophisticated design and costing IT packages.
• Detailed knowledge of past and current building and construction technology, processes, materials, business, and legal matters.

• Exposure to MEP and Cost Estimating systems.

About Us:

Its newest acquisition, Linesight, specializes in cost, schedule, risk, program, and project management services in various market sectors, including data centers, life sciences, and high-tech industries. With the addition of Linesight, IPS has over 3,000 professionals in over 45 offices across 17 countries in the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Middle East.

Specialties

Process Architecture, Process Design, Engineering, Construction, Commissioning, Qualification, LEAN Project Delivery, Strategic Master Planning, Energy Conservation Management, Project Controls, Program/Project Management, Operations/Logistics Strategy and Planning, EPCMV and Staffing Services.

IPS is proud to be an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer.

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