CREATE A SAFER FUTURE FOR NUCLEAR.

Join us as a Senior Quantity Surveyor in our Decommissioning team, part of our Nuclear & Power Division, the most prominent nuclear decommissioning organisation in the UK. You’ll deliver excellence for our client’s teams across significant atomic projects, keeping world decommissioning sustainable and safe. Working closely with colleagues, clients, stakeholders and contractors, you’ll also enjoy opportunities to mentor colleagues while progressing your career upward.
Decommissioning currently employs over 400 staff supplemented by a strong supply chain and delivers over £40m of revenue per annum through various decommissioning and waste management frameworks and standalone contracts. We have expanded our scope over recent years and the opportunities available to us, across our numerous portfolio areas, are diverse and growing. Our commercial function is required to grow in line with the business to support all aspects of delivery.
This role forms a critical part of the Decommissioning Commercial Team and will be our primary representative throughout an array of our JV Partners, our Supply Chain Partners and our Clients.

• We lead and support colleagues from across the Decommissioning business (pan-discipline), to enhance our progressive and sustainable commercial team.
• You will manage and coordinate ~£75m p/a of contractual spend - including coordination and reporting of pan-organisational information (e.g. Defined Cost, Disallowed Cost, cost covered by Fee, invoicing and timesheets) - operating across multiple contract types – both upwards (Client) and downwards (Subcontractor) facing.
• With support, you will develop and implement world-leading ‘work-smart’ tools to automate and enhance your role’s performance - supporting increased productivity and improving wider team performance. This includes potential implementation / testing / utilisation of Artificial Intelligence, Process Automation and Zero-Time-Input delivery mechanisms.
• We demonstrate commercial and collaborative leadership across a suite of Clients and Supply Chain Partners, most notably Sellafield Limited, Springfields Fuels Limited, Nuclear Restoration Services, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and UK National Nuclear Laboratories. Your focus will be on enhancing Contract delivery (primarily NEC4), whilst collaboratively resolving the nuances associated with bespoke T&C amendments / contracts.
• You will manage Client commercial interfaces including Early Warnings, Variations (e.g. Compensation Events / Loss & Expense) and conflict avoidance processes with accountability for managing risks and issues – including escalation were beneficial.
• You will coordinate procurement delivery, including proposing strategies, tendering, negotiation and implementation of key Agreements across the AtkinsRéalis Supply Chain (strong focus on Small and Medium Enterprises).
• Together, we guide the Social Value agenda of Decommissioning from a Commercial perspective.
• We deliver upward and downward facing performance incentivisation, optimising our client’s satisfaction alongside increasing AtkinsRéalis’ margin through effective delivery of savings, Commercial excellence and collaborative working practices.
• You will support development of an integrated commercial team by working alongside Project Management and Project Controls throughout the full project, programme and portfolio lifecycle.