Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where will you be working?
At M Group Energy, we’re enabling the energy essential to support our lives.
We provide an end-to-end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy, EV, metering and home decarbonisation.
This role will be within our Electricity Transmission team. We design, build and commission substations at voltages up to and including 400kV. Our teams construct and maintain transmission lines and substations, ensuring the efficient and reliable delivery of electricity.
This role is working on our SSE OHL projects around the Aberdeen area.
Want to come and be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
As a Managing Quantity Surveyor, you’ll be part of our Overhead Lines Commercial Team who are responsible for actively assisting the Commercial Department and project team to maximise profit and reduce risk. This is a key role requiring strong commercial acumen, excellent stakeholder management skills, and experience of delivering infrastructure or utility projects!
- Support the preparation of reports, claims, and commercial documentation within agreed timescales while maintaining strong relationships with Business Unit and Project Managers
- Monitor project risks, maintain risk registers, and ensure effective subcontractor and supplier management, including quotations, valuations, variations, claims, and final accounts
- Assist in managing compensation events, contract costs, and project profitability through identification of variations, delays, and claims
- Contribute to financial reporting, forecasting, and process improvements to enhance efficiency and accuracy
- Attend project meetings, develop commercial records and manuals, and work closely with commercial and project teams
- Ensure compliance with company procedures and Health & Safety, Quality, and Environmental policies, undertaking additional duties as required to support business and customer needs
What you’ll bring
- Knowledge of the Electrical Transmission / Overhead Lines industry would be preferred
- Excellent negotiating interpersonal & communication skills
- Analytical skills
- Financial awareness
- Excellent IT skills, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.
- Contract costing
- Contract law (NEC3 / 4)
- Previous experience in a Quantity Surveying or Cost Clerk role
- Contract experience, capturing site records for variations and valuations; supporting a project team
- Subcontract Management
- Cost / value reconciliation
- Qualification in Quantity Surveying
- Graduate or “graduate calibre”
- Full UK driving license – willingness to travel / stay away where required
What’s in it for you?
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;
- Matched or contributory pension scheme
- Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Employee assistance programme
- My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
- Reward and recognition scheme
In addition, this role offers;
- Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
- My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
- Private health care and health care cash plan for you
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!
About us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
- We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
- We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
- We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.
It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
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