Job Description

The role will ensure that the project and field service teams are fully protected under the contract terms and comply with the relevant statutory requirements e.g. Construction Act.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the commercial resources (finance) of the assigned project (or region/work stream) to manage planned expenditure through the placement and control of contracts.
• Value work executed by contractors and certify interim and final payments.
• Support the authorization and submission of project variations.
• Assess, review and mitigate commercial and contractual risks and implement the companies’ policies for risk management
• Provide commercial and contractual expertise to contracts, to include the production and submission of valuation certification, drafting & issuing correspondence, claims, produce and report budget monitoring and producing contract/work stream performance data.
• Coach/Develop and mentor junior members of staff and act as an example to others.
• Assist in the monthly measurement of supplier KPI’s and reporting,
• To provide robust, timely and accurate cost and value data at both project and regional levels and their progress in relation to the programme schedule.
• Providing commercial information from projects to enable estimation at programme level to occur.
• Undertaking estimation of future work for pre-sales.
• Acting as the contractual and commercial guardian within the business.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

o Previous experience of commercial management and procurement of contractors o Ability to use spreadsheets to interpret and collate financial data, o Working knowledge of ICC and NEC3 ECC forms of Contract, o Negotiation with suppliers and partners, o Presentation skills and report writing, o Experience in the civil engineering industry/passive network e.g. street-works. o Excellent communication, numerical and computer literacy skills. o Experience in the telecoms or utilities sector, o Experience of NRSWA and SRWR street-works requirements, o Experience in Active network infrastructure o HNC/HND level education or equivalent.