Contract Manager – Renewable Energy Projects
| Posting date: | 11 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £46.15 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | per hour PAYE |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 May 2024 |
| Location: | HUNTINGDON, PE28 4YE |
| Company: | Triumph Consultants Ltd |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | CCC (HQ) 17585 |
Summary
What's involved with this role:
Interim Contract Manager – Renewable Energy Projects
Reference no: CCC (HQ) 17585
Pay Rate: £46.15 per hour PAYE
37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 6-9 months
City: HUNTINGDON
Hybrid working - Ideally < 3 days per week but will consider more
Provide Quantity Surveying and estimating services in order to meet the requirements of the County Council and other clients whilst demonstrating value for money. Ensure all costs are recorded and income recovered, annual turnover circa. £80m, individual works orders from £100 to £20m for NEC Highways and Street Lighting PFI Contracts. Manage the day-to-day delivery of services to achieve the required quality, cost and programme assurance, to achieve high levels of stakeholder satisfaction. You will interface with internal and external client teams throughout the Council and external clients for third party works.
Manage the financial issues and apply cost control procedures related to the procurement and delivery of the Council’s extensive Highways investment programme. Provide professional advice on appropriate procurement routes to obtain best value. The post attracts significant financial responsibility with a requirement to report on the day-to-day financial aspects of capital projects as directed; ensure proper financial monitoring of contractors’ cost/price structures as they relate to capital and revenue provisions.
Key Responsibilities
Provide quantity surveying and estimating services for internal and external works to ensure value for money is achieved with the best use of available resources. To manage the commercial and cost management aspects for the delivery of the programme of investment and planned works.
Continually improve target cost and budget estimate assurance processes requested through the NEC Contracts within the Highways and Transport service – provide standards and trainingthat improves works information quality and keep up to date records/logs of day to day tasks to prioritise workload and manage expectations. Approve a sample of final take offs and quantities produced by the Assistant Quantity Surveyor, the oversee the build ups are correct back to the contract, including fees and uplifts.
Advise the team on the latest guidance, commercial lessons learned and industry best practice.
Oversee the costs management systems for both the client and contractors, ensuring compliance with prime records. Oversee the works order management systems and upskill people with commercial awareness when carrying out these activities. Sign off rate build-up and schedule of rates, promote us of first principles for pricing and checking value for money for the Council.
Review the Service Providers and external consultants’ valuations and claims and, where necessary, gather and provide records to substantiate cost and demonstrate value. To determine such matters in line with contractual arrangements in place and ensure approved invoices are processed in a timely and organised manner.
Ensure works and additional works meet the required targets and monitor internal and external markets to ensure highways and transport activity remains competitive. To accurately measure and value the works undertaken by the operational teams and contractors. You will be accountable for improving service knowledge of relevant commercial standards including the Methods of Measurement for Highway works.
Ensure the team and wider Highways and Transportation directorate have the up to date tools and guidance on the NEC form of Contract including core system management of change controlfor the contracts and frameworks. Advise and guide new staff members in the workings of the NEC form of contract and how to apply these to delivery of works and commercial requirements set by these contracts. Ensure the Commercial team are provided with the relevant training and case history including industry knowledge and exposure of a range or different contracts. Seek ways to share examples and knowledge through scenario based lessons learned.
Set standards and guide officers and provide a framework to support the teams on commercial and contractual matters. Lead meetings with officers and contractors, provide direction andguidance to the teams throughout Place & Sustainability who commission works through the NEC forms of contract and frameworks. Provide support to Assistant Quantity Surveyors and Project Managers as a point of escalation for disputed matters, attend and lead meetings and provide training or presentations where required.
Assist in the cost-effective delivery of highway services and monitor their effect on highway budgets
Assure samples of programme allowances and advise on productivity expectations matrix across the Highways and Transportation programme. Control assumptions across the programme for risk assurance and costed risk registers for all fee proposals and target costs.
Follow and promote the importance of NEC commercial communication protocols seeking advice from the Commercial Manager where required.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Qualifications:
HNC or degree Quantity Surveying
Knowledge:
Extensive knowledge of effective cost management of highway works
Detailed knowledge of NEC forms of contract and current regulations and safe practices.
Knowledge of ways to influence others whether it be client officers to implement commercial practices or contract process, or influencing suppliers / contractors within significant commercial negotiations.
Knowledge of various dispute avoidance options, capable of mapping up various routes to dispute resolution and capable of explaining each to senior leadership.
Knowledge of how highway projects are constructed and services are provided.
Understanding of construction methodology and risk management within the sector.
Understanding the implications of NEC contract management and the interfaces with risk management.
Quantity surveying in a highways setting, understanding the core links between contract management and commercial implications.
Understanding of the consequences of action and inaction commercially and the impact of proposals/decisions on reputation, budgets, setting precedence and relationships.
Experience:
Quantity surveying and estimating experience within a Highways / civil engineering setting.
Experience of overseeing the day to day systems and processes and making recommendations to the Commercial Manager
Having experience in a highways setting with the ability to draw on experience of disputes and being able to explain a position being taken.
Working independently on cost management for highways works whilst supervising and advising others.
Skills & Abilities:
Ability to write technical papers in a way that is easy for others to understand.
Ability to ensure that the wider highways community understands the core messaging and enables changing behaviours.
Ability to adapt communication style to enable successful outcomes.
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Job Ref: CCC (HQ) 17585
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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