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 ?

We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.

This role will be within our Water and Wastewater Capital project delivery team. Our team delivers large-scale capital programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long-term while protecting the environment.

As our Commercial Administrator, you’ll be working on our United Utilities Water AMP8 contracts in Preston.

Want to be part of it ?

What will you be doing?

You'll be providing essential support to the Senior Commercial team in a wide range of activities including:

Cost Management - assisting with cost estimations, tracking expenditures and ensuring alignment with project budgets. Assist with the production and presentation of weekly and monthly CVR’s / profit and loss accounts.

Contract Administration - ensuring compliance with contract terms, managing variations and assisting with the preparation of payment applications, submission of final accounts and cash receipt management.

Subcontractor Management - liaising with subcontractors, managing their performance and processing payments.

Client and Stakeholder communication - maintaining clear communication with clients, project managers and other project stakeholders

What You’ll Bring

• Previous experience within Quantity Surveying preferably within Utilities contracting.
• Basic understanding and previous experience of NEC contracts
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Word, Outlook, Excel)
• Full driving licence
  
  

• 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
  
  

• Hybrid Working
• 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
• Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend - get rewarded for introducing people to us!
  
  

• 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