Principal Quantity Surveyor

About the role

KBR is providing Commercial and Project Controls Services to Sellafield Ltd's portfolio of enterprise projects, including new-build, defence and decommissioning programmes. The Principal Quantity Surveyor leads the quantity surveying team and supports the Commercial Manager, managing relatively large and complex procurement activities from low-value to multi-million-pound contracts.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and manage the commercial project team, ensuring performance to required standards and recommending commercial remedies for poor performance
• Maintain standards across the project and deliver internal and external commercial targets
• Ensure contract compliance and coordinate that information as advice to the Commercial Manager
• Deliver internal and external commercial reporting and contribute to continuous improvement in quantity surveying quality and performance
• Support strategy development, cost and price analysis, negotiation, commercial risk assessment, contract placement, contract management and close-out
• Procure and manage multiple framework contracts and bespoke procurements, and give procurement and pre-contract advice to the Sellafield buying team
• Manage complex and routine procurement and supply chain activities within frameworks
• Work in line with the Collaborative Management Plan and build strong collaborative working relationships

Required profile

• Right to live and work in the United Kingdom; KBR does not offer sponsorship for this role
• Experience in the nuclear industry or another regulated industry preferred
• Broad and detailed knowledge of category management, procurement processes and wider commercial issues
• Ability to manage delivery of internal and external commercial targets
• Regularly working in the office, within commuting distance

Required skills

• Strong NEC contract experience
• Detail-oriented, strong character