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Quantity Surveyor
Galliford Try
Warrington, England, United Kingdom["Full time"]
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Title: Quantity Surveyor
Location: Warrington
An opportunity has arisen for a Quantity Surveyor to join the team at Galliford
Try within our Asset Intelligence business unit
The role will ensure adherence with all Galliford Try and Asset Intelligence
process', principals and guidelines in all aspects.
What You Will Be Doing
• Lead the commercial management of a portfolio of Asset Intelligence projects,
ensuring compliance with Galliford Try processes, governance, and commercial
best practice.
• Support the Senior Quantity Surveyor and Managing Quantity Surveyor in
delivering commercial strategy and business objectives.
• Build strong working relationships across commercial, operational, delivery,
and design teams to drive collaboration and project success.
• Prepare, manage, and monitor cash flow forecasts, identifying and explaining
any variances against budgets and projections.
• Maximise cash collection, minimise WIP and debt exposure, and ensure timely
submission of client applications and spend profiles.
• Oversee subcontractor application assessments and payment processes, ensuring
compliance with contractual and statutory requirements.
• Produce accurate commercial reporting, including CVRs, forecasts, and
month-end documentation, providing clear analysis of performance movements.
• Support the delivery of project commercial targets by actively managing
costs, risk, profitability, and contractual entitlement.
• Assist with negotiating and administering client and subcontract agreements,
ensuring appropriate risk allocation and contractual compliance.
• Manage contractual notices, variations, early warnings, compensation events,
and other commercial change controls within required timescales.
• Work closely with project teams to prepare and agree quotations for
additional cost and time, securing the business's contractual entitlement.
• Attend and contribute to client and supply chain meetings, acting as a key
commercial representative when required.
• Coach and mentor junior commercial team members, supporting their development
and promoting commercial awareness across the business.
• Maintain accurate commercial records, registers, reports, and communications
to support effective project governance and decision-making.
About You
• Experience in a Quantity Surveyor role, ideally within infrastructure,
utilities, engineering, or construction environments.
• Strong commercial and financial management skills, with experience in
forecasting, cost control, cash flow management, and reporting.
• Sound understanding of contract administration, change management, and risk
management principles.
• Confident communicator with the ability to build effective relationships with
clients, supply chain partners, and internal stakeholders.
• Ability to analyse commercial data and provide clear, evidence-based
recommendations and reporting.
• Strong negotiation and problem-solving skills, with a proactive approach to
securing commercial outcomes.
• Well organised with excellent attention to detail and the ability to manage
multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Committed to maintaining high standards of governance, compliance, and
commercial best practice.
• Experience coaching, supporting, or mentoring colleagues and contributing to
team development.
• Working towards or holding a relevant professional qualification (e.g. RICS
or equivalent) would be advantageous.
What We Can Offer in Return:
With an impressive order book of over £4.3 billion we are one of the industry’s
leading principal contractors, affording you the opportunity to work on some of
the UK’s most exciting projects offering you stability as well as the chance to
stretch your capabilities and realise long held career goals. You will be
joining diverse teams working at a high professional level with exceptional
levels of commitment. With an ambitious strategy, we’re poised for further
growth and success, so if you’re committed, talented and enthusiastic, Galliford
Try is the right place for you.
We are committed to maintaining the physical and mental wellbeing of all our
people, through our ‘Be Well’ programme which offers discounts on certain
products, advice and support for a range of issues.
We invest in high-quality training for employees of all levels, from our
leadership development framework to our apprenticeship programmes. Through our
Career Paths initiative, individuals receive tailored training and support to
fulfil their potential.
Our industry is all about creating talented teams that excel in their areas of
expertise. As an employer, we know you are most motivated to give your best when
you feel valued and engaged.
Our Agile Working programme empowers you with flexibility in when, where and how
you work. Where appropriate, site and office-based employees can take advantage
of a wide variety of working practices, offering different amounts of structure,
regularity and flexibility to suit your needs as well as those of your wider
team.
Our benefits:
We put our people first and our benefits package reflects that by offering a
comprehensive range of attractive options to help support your career on top of
a competitive salary.
• Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with years of service, plus the
opportunity to purchase further holidays
• A wide range of corporate discounts
• Cycle to Work schemes
• Comprehensive pension plan
• Competitive family leave policy
• Regular Save as You Earn share purchase scheme
• Private medical scheme options are available for all salaried employees, and
our employee assistance programme also provides free 24/7 support to those
who need it
• Paid for yearly membership to one recognised professional association
relevant to your role
About us:
Our purpose is to improve people’s lives through building the facilities and
infrastructure that communities need, providing opportunities for our people to
learn, grow and progress, working with our supply chain to promote the very best
working practice and caring for the environment in which we work.
We do this by holding true to our values, delivering excellence for our clients
and the community, being passionate about our role in providing vital services,
putting integrity at the heart of our business by doing the right thing, and
collaborating with our clients, supply chain and stakeholders to deliver lasting
change and long-term value.
For more information on this role or to enquire about other positions available
within our business please contact Chloe Wharton -
chloe.wharton@gallifordtry.co.uk
Asset Intelligence:
Galliford Try is one of the UK’s leading construction groups with a vision to
continuously be a people-orientated, progressive business, driven by our values
to deliver lasting change for our stakeholders and the communities we work in.
Our purpose is to improve people’s lives through building the facilities and
infrastructure that communities need, providing opportunities for our people to
learn, grow and progress, working with our supply chain to promote the very best
working practice and caring for the environment in which we work.
We do this by holding true to our values, delivering excellence for our clients
and the community, being passionate about our role in providing vital services,
putting integrity at the heart of our business by doing the right thing, and
collaborating with our clients, supply chain and stakeholders to deliver lasting
change and long-term value.
Galliford Try’s Asset Intelligence business works predominantly within the UK’s
Critical National Infrastructure market, focussing on Defence, Water, Energy,
Transport and Telecommunications sectors. We deliver multi-site security
programs, and our expertise in the planning, design and delivery processes,
together with our CNI Security knowledge and experience, enables us to
efficiently deliver fully integrated physical and electronic security programmes
and portfolios of work on critical operational assets.
Additional Information:
Galliford Try welcomes applications from candidates who would like to work
full-time, reduced hours or flexibly and this will be discussed in more detail
as part of the recruitment process.
We encourage, and would be grateful if, you could confirm any requirements we
can reasonably fulfil to make this application a positive experience for you.
Don’t meet every requirement of the role? Studies have shown that some people
are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification.
At Galliford Try, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and
authentic workplace, so if you’re excited
about this role but your past
experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement of the role, we
encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or
other roles.
As a Disability Confident employer, we have committed to offer an interview to
any candidate with a long-term health condition or disability that meet the
essential criteria for the advertised position. Please contact the Resourcing
Partner listed within the job advert if you believe this applies to you. We will
also take the opportunity to discuss any adjustments required for your
interview.”
A full
job description for this role is available upon request.
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