# Senior Quantity Surveyor (CI&U - PMCM)

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Birmingham, West Midlands
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

You will play a pivotal role in pre- and post-contract Quantity Surveying (QS) or Cost & Commercial Management services to our clients - including estimating, cost planning, procurement, cost assurance, and post-contract financial/commercial management of projects ranging in size and complexity.

Depending on seniority and experience you could be involved in delivering QS/commercial projects, leading a QS/commercial team, training and mentoring staff, bid writing, winning work, people leadership and management, representing WSP UK at industry events, etc.

You will join a diverse, growing team of Quantity Surveyors, Cost Managers and Commercial Managers, and other related professionals who work across multiple sectors.

You will be part of our Project Management and Commercial Management Team (PMCM) – made up of approximately 400 colleagues across the UK.

**Essential**

- MRICS or Assoc RICS or working towards a professional qualification

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

- Ability to demonstrate applicable knowledge, ability and experience around some QS/Cost and Commercial competencies required by relevant professional institutions

- Where applicable, have demonstrable management, project leadership and delivery experience at senior level

**Desirable**

- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a keen attention to detail

- Adaptable and flexible approach to workload

- Alternative, relevant, professional qualification or working towards (e.g. CICES, AcostE)

- Demonstrable Quantity Surveying or Cost and Commercial Management experience in the public sector and/or experience on heavy industry projects

- Ability to travel from base office or home to site, client/project team offices, other WSP offices, and project locations

- Passionate about making a difference and want to be part of a dynamic team

- Hold a degree, or similar higher education academic qualification

- Proven organisational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise tasks and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment

- Not afraid to challenge the status quo to try innovative solutions and learn from past experiences

- Familiarity or working knowledge of specialist software such as CostX and CEMAR

- Working knowledge/experience of NEC Contracts and other industry standard contract forms

- Able to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders

- Previous experience of working in a QS/Cost and Commercial Management role in a consultant, contractor, or client organisation – particularly in the following sectors: water, energy, environment, infrastructure, or transportation

## Skills

### Required
- MRICS
- Assoc RICS
- Quantity Surveying
- Cost and Commercial Management
- Communication
- Interpersonal skills
- Project leadership
- Management

### Nice to have
- CICES
- AcostE
- CostX
- CEMAR
- NEC Contracts
- Project Controls
- Programme and Project Management

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