Quantity Surveyor

83094 - Quantity Surveyor - LPN

The Quantity Surveyor will report to either a Senior Quantity Surveyor or the Commercial Lead and will work within Capital Programme - based in either our Bidder Street or Newington House offices located in West Ham/Canning Town and Elephant and Castle, London respectively. You will be a permanent employee. This role can also offer blended working after probationary period (6 months) - 3 days in the office and 2 days remote working.

You will attract a salary of £68,144 plus a bonus of 3% and a London Weighting allowance.

Close Date: 08/11/2026

We also provide the following additional benefits

• 25 days Annual Leave plus bank holidays
• Private Medical Cover
• Reservist Leave - Additional 18 days full pay and 22 unpaid
• Personal Pension Plan - Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%)
• Tenancy Loan Deposit Scheme, Season Ticket Loan
• Tax efficient benefits: Cycle to Work, Home & Tech, and Green Car Leasing Schemes
• Occupational Health support
• Switched On - scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers’ products
• Discounted gym membership
• Employee Assistance Programme.

Job Purpose

• To assist the Commercial Manager and work with the wider commercial team in providing professional quantity surveying support to the Capital Programme and Procurement Delivery across several long-term contracts.
• To manage commercial matters for those contracts and projects with regards to contract set-up, management, pricing, service delivery, scope change and dispute resolution to ensure contract requirements are compliant with standards and co-ordinated to maximise profit delivery.
• To support a wider project team, variously comprising Programme Managers; Project Managers; Designers; P6 Planners; Consents Surveyors and Administrators.

Responsibilities:

• To be commercial lead, or for larger projects to provide support, on a portfolio of client construction projects.
• To comply with all UKPN guidelines, our goals and procedures, and to identify and report areas of non-conformance to the Regional Commercial Manager and wider commercial management team.
• Ensure that the project delivery team have acted following the Contract.
• Collaborate with all external and company partners to allow the projects to progress without delay, ensuring that all reasonable requests are met in an organised manner, under the guidance of the wider commercial team.
• Review and agree ADP/Tender submissions from UKPN’s Contractors and review Tender Documentation produced by UKPN’s Project Managers.
• Help prepare activity schedules and the presentation of tender documentation, attending interviews and carrying out full tender analysis and comparisons to fixed rates.
• Work with the Portfolio Manager; Programme Managers, Senior Project Managers, Project Managers and P6 Planners to deliver advice and support, to ensure that the projects are managed following the contract and meeting reporting deadlines.
• Manage a programme of current workload, in order that all contracts receive the relevant allocation of resource to manage them commercially.
• To assist the Commercial Manager and Senior Quantity Surveyor in providing guidance to junior members of staff,
• Demonstrate belief and understanding to the team and create confidence even when faced with setbacks. .
• Produce quality reports questioning the decisions and directions of others if necessary.
• Assess contractor applications and EWN's and CE's, making recommendations to, raising payment certificates for and preparing general correspondence on behalf of the Project Managers to ensure that only legitimate monies are certified.
• Collaborate with the Project Managers to update the risk registers and add in new risks arising from the aforementioned EWN's and CE's.
• Use of UKPN’s Contract Administration system called Unifier to agree/reject CEN’s and agree CEQ’s submitted by our Contractors including the use of a Cost Reporting system linked to UKPN’s Unifier system with produces a Work Order Tracker Dashboard for each project in the QS’s portfolio.
• Identify principal risks and opportunities, raise, addresses and resolve problems at a project level and supports the project delivery team, maintains a schedule of potential costs for the projects.
• To advise others regarding the application of the different forms of contract in use within UKPN, predominantly being NEC3 and other UKPN bespoke forms.
• Manage change control procedures within each specific contract and ensuring that they are followed by all parties.
• Drafting of documents to allow the increase of Contractor’s Purchase Orders with support from UKPN’s Project Managers and supporting the Project Managers in drafting Governance documents.
• Become involved in the relevant Annual rate reviews.
• Review Principal / Main Contractors Subcontracts and identify where clauses are in breach of Partner policies, making recommendations to achieve compliance.
• Work with the Senior Project Managers, Project Managers other commercial staff and the Regional Commercial Manager to resolve any contract issues, and in the event of a dispute arising to help prepare the required documentation to justify and strengthen our contractual position.
• Consider alternative strategies for dispute resolution of moderate complexity and prepare written arguments from a claimant or defendant perspective, making recommendations to important UKPN partners on the preferred option.
• Collaborate with internal and external legal advisors.

Skills, Qualifications and Experience

Essential

• Degree qualified in quantity surveying or other relevant business discipline.

• Quantity surveying experience and a track record in managing complex, high value and varied contracts from a quantity surveying perspective.

• Experienced in using the NEC Conditions of Contract.

• Experienced in using Word, Excel, PowerPoint to an intermediate / advanced level and Client accounting systems such as SAP.

• A quantity surveying professional.

• Be able to deal with management in a confident manner.

• Team working skills.

Desirable

• Working towards Profession Membership or have recently achieved Profession Membership in an appropriate organisation such as RICS, CIOB, ICES or other relevant Chartered Institute would be an additional advantage, but applicants not intending to obtain a Professional Membership would still be considered for this role.

• Experience building relationships with both service providers and company partners - including the confidence and stature to work with executives and other senior managers.

• Analysis is required to make informed, balanced decisions and report findings back to Clients and company partners.

• An understanding of the Electrical Industry

Should you not have the full range of essential skills, qualifications and competencies listed above, there may be an opportunity for further training to equip you. If you do not have all relevant competencies for the core grade, it will be appropriate to appoint at a lower grade until you have developed the required competencies.

Health & Safety Responsibilities

Managers and supervisors carry both legal and company responsibilities for ensuring the health and safety of their employees, those under their control and those who might be affected by the work undertaken, i.e. public, visitors and employees of other organisations. This includes briefing individuals working for them and ensuring there is the necessary understanding, competence and application of requirements to work safely and without harming the environment.

Employees will ensure they understand the health and safety risks involved in their work activities and their responsibility to apply the controls needed to manage those risks to acceptable levels. Similarly where work activities can have an adverse impact upon the environment, and where there are legal requirements, employees will understand those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied.

If in doubt ask!

We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome, valued and able to be themselves. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. If you meet the essential criteria and believe your skills, experience or transferable strengths could make you a great fit for the role, we’d love to hear from you. If you need any adjustments or support during the recruitment process, please let us know and we’ll be happy to help.

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Where applicable, this role is subject to safer recruitment processes and robust pre-employment checks

If you have any queries in connection to this vacancy or your application, please contact us at [email protected] quoting the vacancy reference number and a member of the team will get in touch with you as soon as possible.