Quantity Surveyor
Taylor Pearson Construction Ltd
Total years of experience :9 years, 0 Months
Quantity Surveying for a very busy Main Contractor, well established within the East Midlands, UK. Projects are predominantly new build, but include demolition, refurbishment, change of use, fit out and extension with mix of civil, building, mechanical and electrical construction. The contacts vary between JCT and NEC, traditional and D & B. I manage multiple projects at any one time up to an individual value of £2million, within the health, MOD, education, retail and residential sectors. I maintain full Commercial responsibility of each project, tasked with all post contract duties. Aside from my QS duties I fulfill the role of Company Quality Manager. My responsibilities include;
• Full financial responsibility
• Procurement of subcontract, materials, plant and control of labour
• Project Valuations
• Measurement and take off
• Buyer
• Management of Subcontractors including payment
• Management of claims
• Quality Manager
• Risk Management
• Variation Order Management
• Contract Management of Minor Works
• Commercial CVR Reporting
My role was to provide Commercial Management for Babcock DynCorp’s self-delivery teams on Injected Major Projects Work into the Regional Prime Contract East, a 7-year facilities management contract with the Defence Infrastructure Organisation, supporting over 20 MOD establishments across the East of England. Our team delivered on average £20 million of construction work per year from the Group’s annual turnover of £5 billion, over approximately 80-100 individual projects, namely accommodation block, office and hangar refurbishments, specialist projects including energy efficiency programme, creation of weaponries, firing ranges, airfield decommissioning, creation military training simulator bases and IED training pits for a range of challenging customers with various demands. Babcock DynCorp were part of the Babcock International Group PLC who entered the FTSE whilst I was their employee. I mentored and line managed a Commercial Manager in the Southern team, supervising her through her APC. We used a range of in-house labour, subcontractors, agencies and material suppliers to deliver to stringent MOD procurement processes to provide VFM and zero tolerances to fraud. My duties included;
• Develop project scope with the Customer / Client
• Management of the Pricing Process including estimating, benchmarking, cost negotiation with the client, business approval including tender presentation to the board of directors and managing KPIs of pricing timescales
• Selection of procurement strategy
• Management of the tender process to satisfy government procedures
• Contract selection and Management of subcontractors including claims
• Project forecasting, cost allocation, cost control and high level Commercial reporting
• Creation and development of Cost Control procedure and forecast model, integrated with Operational Team
• Claims Management
• Risk Management
• Post Project Review for lessons learned and Final Accounts agreement with Client and SC
• Set and manage business processes and procedures
• Document Management to satisfy External Audits
• Monthly and Annual Commercial Reporting
• Line Management and Mentoring
I joined Babcock DynCorp from Alfred McAlpine’s as a Quantity Surveyor. With a number of large accommodation block refurbishment projects commencing it was my responsibility to work with the Commercial Manager to create a forecasting tool, cost allocation procedure and integrate with the Operational teams to enhance project cost control during a busy period and upturn of work with a relatively new team. Duties included;
• Managing the tender process in line with strict MOD procurement procedures
• Agreement of Final accounts
• Post Project Reviews / Evaluations
• Maintaining project registers
• Document Management to satisfy external audit
• Cost Benchmarking to prove best Value for Money
• Work Order and Invoice Query closure to aid cash flow
• Production of monthly reports
• Assisting Price / Estimating process
Joining Alfred McAlpine Business Services as a trainee Quantity Surveyor gave me the opportunity to develop my knowledge and understanding through working with an experienced Quantity Surveyor in a busy environment. The company gave me an excellent opportunity to choose and complete a Degree in Quantity Surveying. My chosen course was at Nottingham Trent University on a day release basis. I was tasked with creating a presentation for 10 different MOD sites to explain the pricing process and document management procedure. Located in the Northern region working across a number of sites, my tasks mainly involved;
• Pricing Minor Works, overseeing the submission and authorisation process in line with business delegation levels
• Presentation and negotiation of price submissions with the client
• Maintaining project registers
• Production of monthly reports to Commercial, Operations and Finance Managers
• Lead the claim for Abortive Costs in the North region (£900K)
• Monitor trends in budget vs actual cost over the injected works programme, and core services contract
Although only a temporary position working for URDI gave me taste of working alongside various Snr Management roles with an ambitious private property development firm based in Grantham. During my short spell I worked on a 54 bed new build luxury apartment block in the Grantham town centre (£4.5m), and a 24 bed apartment block in Peterborough (£2.5m), both of which had various challenging opportunities to overcome due to their location and site restrictions. I experienced working alongside the company’s Managing Director, Contracts Manager, Designer, Lead Engineer and Construction Managers, both on site and within the Office.