Quantity Surveyor

Job description:

Quantity Surveyor

Salary: Up to £50k DOE with Car Allowance

Location: Home based with regular site visits across South Coast, Worthing/Kent /London

Permanent full time role

Working with a small but mighty team, our client is looking for someone who may be an assistant surveyor looking for a step up as there will be training opportunities.

The role however will need hands on and self-driven, due to predominantly working from home.

Role Purpose

This role plays a critical role in supporting the successful delivery of smart metering operations by reviewing, validating, and managing aborted installation activities that may require excavation, enabling works, boundary box replacements, or Street works intervention.

Acting as a key interface between Commercial, Operations, Planning, Streetworks, and Programme teams, this role ensures aborted jobs are accurately evidenced, commercially assessed, and managed in line with NEC4 TSC contractual requirements, Scope obligations, and operational processes.

You will help drive commercial assurance and operational excellence by reducing unnecessary costs, challenging unsupported excavation claims, improving data quality, and maintaining audit-ready governance across the programme.

This position supports operational delivery, reporting, defect management, deployment activity, and Streetworks obligations within a fast-paced NEC4 TSC smart metering contract environment.

Key Responsibilities

Aborted Job & Excavation Validation

• Review and validate aborted or failed smart meter installation jobs.
• Assess supporting evidence including site photographs, surveys, operative notes, and asset information.
• Determine whether excavation works, boundary box replacements, or enabling activities are justified and required.
• Ensure abort reasons are accurately classified, evidenced, and recorded to support operational and commercial decisions.

Commercial & Contract Assurance

• Ensure activities are delivered in accordance with NEC4 TSC contract requirements and Scope obligations.
• Partner with Commercial teams to support:
  • Payment validation
  • Compensation event assessment
  • Pay Less notices
  • Commercial dispute resolution and defence
• Identify trends and risks that may indicate operational inefficiencies, contractual exposure, or data quality concerns.

Data Analysis & Performance Reporting

• Produce and maintain reporting and dashboards relating to:
  • Aborted installations
  • Excavation and dig volumes
  • Defect trends
  • Enabling works requirements
  • Commercial and financial exposure
• Analyse recurring failures, performance gaps, and high-risk locations to drive operational improvements and informed decision-making.

Workflow & Defect Management

• Manage incidents, defects, and follow-on actions using operational systems including MWorks, Power BI, Freshdesk, or equivalent platforms.
• Monitor remediation activities, excavation requirements, permits, and completion progress to ensure timely resolution.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Commercial, Operations, Streetworks, Finance, and Programme teams to support programme performance.
• Act as the connection between operational field insight and commercial decision-making.
• Build strong relationships across internal and external stakeholders to support delivery outcomes.

Qualifications & Experience

Essential

• Relevant degree qualification or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience within utilities, infrastructure, smart metering, or operational performance environments.
• Strong experience managing operational and commercial datasets.
• Advanced capability in Power BI, Excel, and Microsoft Office applications.
• Strong analytical skills with the confidence to challenge unsupported operational claims.

Desirable

• Experience working within NEC contracts or regulated contract environments.
• Experience producing operational insight, reporting, and continuous improvement initiatives.
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Skills & Knowledge

• Strong commercial awareness and sound judgement.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving capability.
• Ability to interpret operational data and convert insight into action.
• Experience managing reporting frameworks and performance registers.
• Ability to prioritise effectively across multiple workstreams.

Personal Attributes

• Self-motivated with excellent workload management skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement capability.
• Customer-focused with the ability to build trusted relationships.
• Demonstrates initiative and commitment to continuous development.
• Curious, solutions-focused, and comfortable driving change.
• Resilient and adaptable within fast-moving operational environments.
• Strong situational awareness and risk management capability.
• Able to deliver results at pace while maintaining attention to quality and governance.
• Positively influences stakeholders across multiple functions.

Health, Safety & Environment

Maintain full compliance with all Safety, Health and Environmental legislation, policies, and management systems applicable to your area of responsibility.

Ensure you:

• Work only when appropriately trained and competent.
• Use equipment, systems, and materials safely and correctly.
• Assess risk and follow approved safe systems of work.
• Stop work and seek guidance where conditions are unsafe.
• Report all incidents, hazards, and near misses immediately.

Interview process

Teams call initially and then a more formal stage with face to face meet in London.

Benefits:

• Training and development from day one
• Mileage and all company expenses covered when staying away from home.
• Car allowance

For more information on this role please contact Terri our Managing Consultant at Multitask Personnel.