Employment type: Full-time
Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire
Salary: £85,000

About the role

A wastewater treatment framework near Oxford has just had its pricing programme pulled forward by six months. That has left the commercial team needing a Managing QS who can take a scope of work and actually run it: CVRs, change, the lot, feeding into the framework lead rather than being managed over the shoulder by them.

If you are a water or infrastructure MQS who is currently one reconciliation among many on a programme you never see the top of, this is a chance to own your packages properly.

A few things worth knowing before you read on:
The work is committed, not hoped for. This sits on a long framework with a multi-year order book behind it, so it is not a twelve-month punt.
You are on site two or three days a week and remote the rest. If you want an office to work from on the other days, there is one near London and one in the Midlands.
The employer is a family-owned infrastructure contractor marking its 75th year, and one of only around 5% of UK businesses to hold Platinum Investors in People. Water is one of the things they have done longest.
And there is a genuine circular-economy angle to the project that you do not get on every works upgrade: a phosphorus removal cycle, digestion tanks turning waste into biomass for local farms, and gas generation built into the process.

What you would be doing
Owning the cost value reconciliation on your packages.
Managing subcontract accounts and payments through to final account.
Running change and keeping the commercial reporting clean for the framework lead.
And helping bring on a younger commercial team who will learn a lot from someone who has done it properly.

Requirements

CVR experience on infrastructure projects. Water is ideal, but an adjacent regulated or complex sector is fine.
Strong NEC contract experience. You should be able to talk through the options you have worked under and where they bit.
A tier-one or major contractor background, so you know how framework reporting and governance actually work.
Around 7 to 10 years in commercial roles.
If you have those four, I would like to talk. If you are JCT-only, or your background is highways maintenance or fit-out, this one will not be the right fit and I will be straight with you about that rather than waste your time.

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