Senior Quantity Surveyor - Capex

Client Relationship
New client, first placement

Time to Fill: 6 weeks 3 days from award to verbal offer acceptance.

Here's what our client said...

This is the first time we’ve worked with Adam and AR Resourcing. He provided really good market intel to help us adjust our salary bands, which helped attract a higher calibre of candidate, and we’re really pleased with who we hired.

About the Client

Summary

• Northern Gas Networks is owned by a consortium of three partners that are committed to supporting the company’s mission to deliver a safe and reliable gas service, provide excellent customer service, and go the extra mile for the communities they serve.

Size

• Directly employ 1,300 people and provide regular work to around 800 contractors. They support 2.7 million customers across the north of England and are investing £1bn over the next 8 years to upgrade the region's gas network.

About the Job

Reason for Vacancy

• The Senior Commercial Manager required a new hire to help manage five high-pressure gas pipeline diversions for Network Rail, as part of their TransPennine electrification programme.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop commercial and procurement strategies across a portfolio of regional utility capital projects.
• Senior Quantity Surveyors with strong infrastructure project experience from relevant contractors or subcontractors, who can commute weekly across West Yorkshire.
• Experience of developing commercial and procurement strategies as well as post-contract management of variations and claims to a high level.
• Finding candidates of an appropriate calibre within the salary band, as Northern Gas Networks salary bands didn’t initially line up to the pool of contracting candidates with relevant project exposure and client-facing stakeholder experience.

Our Approach

We provided our Plan 2, Contingent Exclusive recruitment service; we were exclusive for a fixed period to identify, qualify, and present suitable candidates.

Candidate Interview

• Headhunt candidates with an emphasis on phone or video interviews.
• Qualify candidates with multi-tiered screening.

Search Depth

• All local candidates contacted from our database network.
• Headhunting from 5 competitors.
• Advertise on our Job Alerts candidate email, website, LinkedIn feed, and job boards.
• Prioritised over all Contingent jobs.

CV Format

• Candidate Suitability Matrix, Risks, and Assessment of Suitability.

Job function dedicated Account Manager, supported by a Researcher and overseen by the Managing Director.

Shortlist Timescale

• Within 2 weeks.

In Summary

Shortlisted

• 3 CVs shortlisted in two weeks.

Interviewed

• 2 candidates interviewed.

Offered

• Preferred candidate immediately offered and appointed.

Cecilia Hansen-Saunders
Commercial Director

We asked Adam to find a Category Lead for us which he filled first time. This was an interesting assignment due to the greenfield nature of the role. Candidates needed experience of change and implementation of new ways of working as well as core procurement skills. By working closely with Adam, he ensured a high calibre shortlist and we appointed an excellent candidate.

Jamie Swanston
Procurement & Supply Chain Director

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