Graduate Quantity Surveyor

Job Description

Job Title: Graduate Quantity Surveyor
Location: Hinkley Point C, Somerset, UK

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Linxon, a leading engineering and construction company specializing in the delivery of turnkey substation projects, is looking for a motivated and detail-oriented Graduate Quantity Surveyor to join our team at Hinkley Point C. This is an exciting opportunity to develop your career within a global company, working on one of the most significant energy infrastructure projects in the UK. You will play a key role in ensuring the successful financial and contractual management of the project while gaining valuable experience in the construction industry.

What will you do?

• Cost Management: Assist in preparing cost estimates, budgets, and financial reports for construction works, ensuring that costs are kept within project limits.
• Measurement and Valuation: Conduct on-site measurements and valuations of works completed to ensure accurate and fair payment claims.
• Subcontractor Management: Support in the procurement and management of subcontractor agreements, including contract negotiation, pricing, and ensuring compliance with Linxon’s standards and project specifications.
• Financial Reporting: Assist in preparing monthly financial reports, cost forecasts, and contract administration to track project progress and financial performance.
• Risk Management: Identify and report on potential risks and cost impacts to the project, helping to mitigate these through careful analysis and planning.
• Change Management: Assist with the management of contract variations and change orders, ensuring that changes are properly recorded and communicated with stakeholders.
• Stakeholder Communication: Collaborate with project managers, engineers, subcontractors, and the client to ensure smooth project delivery and alignment with financial objectives.
• Compliance: Ensure that all work complies with relevant legal, regulatory, and safety standards.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Degree: A degree in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, or a related field.
• Analytical Skills: Strong numerical, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Attention to Detail: A keen eye for detail and a methodical approach to tasks.
• IT Proficiency: Good knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and quantity surveying software.
• Desirable: Experience or placement in a construction or engineering project would be an advantage.

About Linxon

Shaping energy solutions to empower sustainable connectivity. We combine AtkinsRéalis project management expertise and Hitachi Energy’s deep technological knowledge to create a company dedicated to substations – we are Linxon.

Linxon’s vision is to deliver the best market offering for turnkey substation projects through world-class power technologies and delivering the highest level of competence in managing infrastructure projects.

As a leading engineering company, we help our customers with turnkey substation solutions in the field of power transmission, renewable energy and transportation. In this role, you will have the opportunity to be part of a new company as it evolves and help shape it for the future. If you like new challenges, have an entrepreneurial spirit and are interested in working with other motivated professionals with expertise in the Substations EPC business, then this is the new opportunity for you.

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At Linxon, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.