Here at Jackson, we are dynamic, innovative and focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result, our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting and varied projects. We want our people to succeed both in work and life and to support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

We are now recruiting for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our team working with the Environment Agency Team on the Collaborative Delivery Framework (CDF). This role will be based in Tamworth but the projects will be located across the whole of the Midlands Region (Lincs and Northamptonshire, East and West Midlands. Your main responsibility will be to commercially manage multiple early supplier engagement and ground investigation projects from tender through to final account working for the Commercial Lead and Framework Director. The ideal candidate will have experience in working in a collaborative civil engineering environment, the CDF presents us to an opportunity to be fully integrated with the Client and project teams across the complete project life cycle, giving the client best value. You will have the ability to manage multiple schemes at any one time whilst having a good working knowledge of cost and time management, the NEC form of contract, its full application and online contract tracker tool use.

Main Duties:

• Support and mentoring of junior staff.
• Maximise profitability on contracts.
• Monitoring contract costs against budgets.
• Identifying potential risks and evaluate options for control.
• Preparation of estimates.
• Procurement of sub-contractors, including preparation of subcontract documents.
• Assessment and certification of interim and final payments to subcontractors.
• Preparation and agreeing main contract variations.
• Assist in the preparation of documents for resolution of disputes (adjudications / arbitrations and the like).
• Ensure all work complies with quality, safety and environmental policies and the requirements of the company procedure.

Must haves:

• Ambitious individual with great communication skills, who is confident with a flexible approach.
• Demonstrate innovative approaches to problem solving and the ability to negotiate across the various levels of any construction environment.
• Handle the financial and mathematical demands of the role by possessing impressive numeracy and IT skills.
• Must have experience working on civil engineering schemes including Flood Protection with a main contractor.
• Experience as a SQS working with the NEC form of contract.

Excellent benefits package and personal development opportunities:

We don’t just offer a great place to work with a supportive, family atmosphere. We also offer:

• Life assurance cover (4x annual salary)
• Company car or car allowance
• Hybrid working
• Company pension scheme (we match up to 6%)
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (with an option of buying more holiday)
• Extensive training programmes
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee benefits platform
• Free on-site parking
• Company social calendar
• Regular fun days and a broad range of charity events
• A supportive business that genuinely wants to help you progress in your career.
• ‘The Great Escape’ – leaving early every Friday!

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. We also place high importance on our inclusive recruitment policy and will do our very best to support those applicants who may need adjustments in order to take part in the recruitment process. Please do let us know if you require any additional assistance or adjustments. Due to the high volume of applications, we receive it is not always possible to respond to unsuccessful applicants. Therefore, if we have not responded to your application within two weeks, please note that on this occasion your application has not been successful.