Are you an Ass QS, Quantity Surveyor OR Graduate QS with NEC3 Contract experience working on civils/infrastructure projects and want to work on an exciting £1billion section of High Speed Two in the Centre of Birmingham on Europe’s largest infrastructure project?

An Assistant Commercial Manager is required to work for the Client Organisation (High Speed Two Ltd) responsible for the New High-Speed Rail project in the UK.  Working on a 5 km of line of route from Curzon Street approaches heading east towards, Washwood Heath Depot & Saltley – this is a highly complex route through urban Birmingham characterised by a sequence of viaducts and structures that make up the Curzon Street Approaches including the nicknamed “Bellingham Bridge’ a 150m impressive truss bridge. There are lots of contaminated land most notably at Washwood Heath the site for the new HS2 Depot which is currently the largest brown field site in the UK.  In addition there are lots of utility, structures and highways works.

Working in the city centre there are huge number of interfaces including Birmingham Council, businesses, public, Majors office, West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA), transport for West midlands, Network Rail to name a few.

 
As Assistant Commercial Manager you will be responsible for supporting the delivery of commercial activities within the Delivery teams working on this large civils NEC3 Option C Contract. The role works alongside the supply chain and contractors within the development delivery teams, assuring and supporting their commercial activities.

 
The Assistant Commercial Manager will mainly work post contract within the delivery teams on the HS2 Contract and are tasked with supporting contract administration of the contract – supporting the Commercial Manager in all commercial activities such as Compensation Events, Applications of payment, reporting etc.

 
Progression Opportunities

HS2 already have a superb reputation for progressing from within highlighted by the fact 45% of all vacancies are filled internally. With 3 to 4 year left on the Main Works Civils the successful candidates will move onto one of the Rail System Contracts which includes work packages such as - £550m Rail Depot, £1.2bn Signalling Contract, £500 M&E systems package and £300 Overhead Catenary System to name a few, projects are going onto 2034.  There are also huge opportunities to develop quickly to Commercial Manager level – Salaries £60 -70,000.

 
Work Situation – Hybrid

There is a flexible hybrid working model working 2 days a week from the office/site.  Overall this is a very flexible modern employer who cares about delivery not where you deliver from, however, if you wish to be based from the office more you can.

You will be based from the central Birmingham Fort Dunlop site office – there is a shuttle bus taking workers to site from Birmingham New Street Station (takes 10 minutes)

Salary
Ass Commercial Manager               £40 – 48,702 + Pen(6/12) + 25 hols + health

 Next promotional step is Commercial Manager - £60 – 70,000 + pkg

Duties and Responsibilities

Post Contract

• To be responsible for supporting the delivery of contract management of the contracts to maintain effective commercial control.
• To be responsible for supporting the administration of the obligations of the Project Manager under the NEC3Contract.
• To be responsible for supporting the valuation of variations and compensation events.
• To be responsible for supporting contract payments assessment.
• To be responsible for supporting the review and analysis of supply chain monthly reports.
• To be responsible for supporting the input into contract level performance information into monthly MBR reports.
• To be responsible for supporting the settlement of supply chain disputes.
• To be responsible for supporting estimate reviews (at all stages)
• Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

 
Candidate Overview 

Qualified Ass QS, Graduate, Quantity Surveyor etc from a Quantity Surveying background with either Client, Consultant or Main Contractor experience.  Ideal experience will be working on major Rail Infrastructure but happy for someone with either Heavy civils, utilities, Infrastructure or indeed construction background (schools, universities, airports etc) and have had some experience administering NEC3/4 contracts (any type) including (Compensation Events) and with  appreciation of assurance & governance.

Key Behavioural – Self Starter, appetite to Develop & learn, excellent communication and collaboration skills, a track record of personal development, organised and driven.