Senior Quantity Surveyor - Security & Baggage

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. 

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success. 
Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions. 

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world. 

Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com 

Job Description

The SQS is responsible for cost control on behalf of the Contracting Entity, managing a team of Intermediate Quantity Surveyors in ensuring effective management and control of spend, and ensuring payments are compliant with the contracting reimbursement principles (schedules of rates, bills of quantity, materials on and off site payments, etc.), as well as monitoring the anticipated final project costs. In doing so, the SQS will provide cost management and cost advice to the Claims, Contract Management and Project Management team, and ensure that the Contracting Entity achieves the project’s budgetary goals and objectives. 

The SQS will undertake or review measurement of designs and on-site works completed, develop the schedule of rates or Bill of Quantities, provide their assessment of on and off site materials, monthly payment certificates and package final accounts, as well as monitoring the anticipate final project costs and making recommendations for monthly payments or final accounts due ensuring Contractual Entitlement. 

Team Management 

• Support the Head of Programme Controls and the Quantity Surveying Manager in leading a team of Intermediate Quantity Surveyors in the Programme, each responsible for the implementation of cost management on their projects 

• Oversee the day to day activities of the Intermediate Quantity Surveyors ensuring the appropriate implementation of cost management processes on the projects 

• Develop and maintain a detailed resourcing plan for the delivery of cost management on the projects through the Cost Managers 

• Provide support to the Intermediate Quantity Surveyors in their day to day delivery functions 

• Be responsible for reporting on the performance of the projects under their remit 

• Work with the Programme Director to address any issues that arise in the course of the delivery of the projects 

Programme Cost Management Activities 

• Support the development of the process, procedures and policies for the Contracting Entity’s cost control standards, ensuring those standards take account of industry standards and any contractual terms and conditions. 

• Monitor and assure compliance with Contracting Entity’s cost control standards, notifying the Programme Director and Project Manager of any non-conformance issues. 

• Develop the cost management strategy for the programme. 

• Reviewing the proposed contractor Key Performance Indicators for cost, spend and budget management. 

• Oversee the management of variations, monthly cashflow forecasting and any amendments / variances, retention, liquidated damages etc. 

• Oversee the advice provided to the Risk team of the financial impacts of potential risks. 

• Monitor the anticipated final costs of the programme, reviewing and approving those completed by the Cost Management team. 

• Provide a route to escalation for cost control, as required. 

• Support Contracting Entity’s response to contractor claims as required. 

• Ensure that the Contracting Entity achieves optimum value for money in the procurement and delivery of the programme. 

• Develop and maintain the processes, systems and administrative procedures necessary to support the timely and accurate dissemination of cost reports, across Contracting Entity. 

• Foster relationships with the supply chain and wider industry including contra