About the role
Cambridgeshire County Council is seeking a highly organised and detail‑driven NEC Assistant Quantity Surveyor in our Commercial and Contract Management Team within Infrastructure & Project Delivery, part of the Highways and Transport Directorate.
This role is ideal for someone with
- strong analytical skills
- the ability to analyse cost data, contractual information, manage multiple tasks and generate creative solutions
- a good attention to detail
- good communication and organisational skills
- experience of managing people
- sound commercial awareness
- experience (or developing experience) working within the NEC suite of contracts, particularly TSC, PSC and ECC forms.
You will play a key role in managing compensation events, assessing contractor quotations, and ensuring that all commercial activity aligns with contractual obligations and agreed rates.
You will be responsible for commercial support for the delivery of a range of highways services and ensure we meet the requirements of the County Council and other clients whilst demonstrating value for money.
This role falls within the Council’s Commercial Career Progression Scheme and promotes development within our Infrastructure & Project Delivery team whether you are developing as an Assistant Quantity Surveyor or Quantity Surveyor, providing opportunities for structured training and career progression within commercial and contract management.
For an informal chat please contact Jack Wright NEC Commercial Manager – jack.wright@cambridgeshire.gov.uk.
What will you be doing?
Supporting the NEC Commercial Manager and NEC Quantity Surveyors within Infrastructure & Project Delivery in delivering the Council and Directorate’s objectives through joined-up service planning and the flexible use of resources.
The team will work with wider teams within Infrastructure & Project Delivery to ensure the day-to-day delivery of services achieve quality, cost and programme assurance and a high level of stakeholder satisfaction. You will interface with internal and external client teams throughout the council and external clients for third party works.
About you
As a team you will manage and provide professional advice on financial issues and apply cost procedures related to procurement and delivery. Supporting the development of the commercial function throughout Highways and Transport. The post is pivotal to adopting an improved commercially focused culture.
Entry level is Assistant Quantity Surveyor or equivalent skills and NEC knowledge and experience with the opportunity to progress to Quantity Surveyor.
Don’t worry if you can’t yet fully demonstrate the essential criteria, a willingness to learn and develop is just as important and we will support you fully on your apprenticeship journey to undertake the Level 4 Civil Engineering Senior Technician Apprenticeship.
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
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