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Job No. BBUK11282
Power T&D
Quantity Surveying & Commercial
Join our Power Commercial team as a Managing Quantity Surveyor and contribute to delivering significant projects like the ASTI scheme, aimed at boosting Scotland’s overhead line network's reliability and capacity.
Ideal Location: Aberdeenshire or Inverness or Dundee
Our projects, such as this initiative, offer a platform not just to showcase your skills but also to expand and refine your capabilities.
By joining our team, you will engage in impactful work that is vital to our operations and be part of major infrastructure endeavours.
• Commercial management of a large infrastructure project or a portfolio of
smaller projects
• Develop and directly line manage a small team
• Manage costs in relation to infrastructure projects with experience of identifying
commercial risks and opportunities in respect of their works
• Deliver varied commercial duties including responsibility for procuring and
managing supply chain
• Optimise commercial performance through diligent cost control and value for
money opportunities, whilst achieving the required standards and quality for our
customers
• Create and maintain commercial relationships to both internal and external
stakeholders
• Contract administration with both client and subcontractors
• Provide support and adherence for the end to end Gated Business Lifecycle
process (Gates 1-8)
• Proactively drive career and personal development, including professional
certification
The following qualifications or equivalent (preferred, not essential to role):
• BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying or equivalent level of education or
experience
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.
From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). 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. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
