Commercial Assistant - Glasgow, United Kingdom - AmcoGiffen

AmcoGiffen

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Glasgow, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Commercial Assistant

Rail ¦ Civil Engineering

Location - Cumbernauld, Scotland

An exciting opportunity for a Commercial Assistant to join our Scotland commercial team supporting a wide variety of projects and frameworks.

The commercial assistant will undertake commercial duties as directed by the more senior members of the team. This role includes a wide and varying range of tasks in a supporting capacity. The Commercial Assistant role is an outstanding platform to kickstart your commercial career with AmcoGiffen in Scotland having an excellent track record of developing Quantity Surveyors via this route.

Business Unit

A busy and fast paced project environment involving in a range of multi-disciplinary civil engineering projects, working for a varied range of clients including Local Authorities, Network Rail, Environmental and private developers.

Projects can typically include civil engineering works and infrastructure projects such as:
Roads, bridges, footbridges, tunnels, underbridges, flood alleviation / repairs, embankments and rail platforms etc.

We currently have a number of live infrastructure projects and long-term renewals and maintenance frameworks underway including Civils Asset Management (CAM), Renewals Enhancement Framework (REF) and a slab track framework.

The Role

As a Commercial Assistant you will form an integral part of our expert commercial team in the daily commercial management of multiple civil engineering and rail projects and frameworks.

You will work closely with the Quantity Surveyors, Senior Quantity Surveyors and Commercial Management team providing commercial and administrative assistance.

Your responsibilities will comprise of providing Commercial support to the wider commercial team on administrative tasks such as producing estimates from a schedule of rates and site reports, re-measuring actual works delivered and drafting final accounts.

Day to day as a Commercial Assistant your duties will comprise of:

Sub-Contractor
Payments, Procurement, Liabilities for CVR

Weekly Reports

Job Tracker
Create & Process order requests
Compilation of final account packs for the clients
Obtaining signed completion certificates and chasing information from internal staff
Various CVR data exercises
Distribution of Technical Query forms to client and dealing with responses
Gathering Final Account Information
Organising Final Account Information to be signed off by the client to be paid
Issuing Site Inspections to the relevant QS to be estimated
Submitting estimates on for client approval
Ensuring all Completion Paperwork & Estimates are filed

Requirements:

In return

Competitive annual salary negotiable dependant on experience
25 days holiday plus bank holidays (increasing with service)
Company contributory Pension scheme
Life Insurance
Westfield Health Cash Plan & Westfield Rewards
Generous Employee referral scheme
Support and employee infrastructure embedded in the business as a platform for personal and professional development creating pathways for unrivalled career development and progression opportunities internally.
Consistent learning opportunities
A safe place to work
Employee forum's that provide a platform for having your voice heard