Quantity Surveyor

Managing projects of various sizes ensuring clear and accurate budgets are produces to enable sufficient commercial reporting. Skilled at developing effective business relationships, collaborating with both clients and internal departments to ensure the contract is completed within its projected budget. Know and understand customer needs and consider customer impact during all states of your work.

You will be primarily based in the Podington depot with regular travel between sites and depots.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage multiple projects of varying sizes at the same time.

• Ensure clear and accurate budgets are understood at tender award and then managed regularly alongside the project team.

• Procurement of works to meet and exceed programme and ideally tender budgets. This includes the measurement of quantities to ensure the procurement of materials is correct.

• Preparation of sub-contract documents and regular management of subcontractor accounts against original allowance.

• Manage the client account and agree items in a timely manner so the projected final accounts known by both parties.

• Sufficient contract administration to ensure the business is not at risk.

• Weekly review and analysis of programme, progress and cost monitoring.

• Chane control management with early identification of additional items, notification and agreement with the entitlement and agreement of value.

• Risk & opportunity management, identify and mitigate the items with the project team to minimise the impact where possible.

• Preparation of monthly CVR’s with full cost and value plans and projected final account positions of the projects.

• Development and agreement of projected forecasts with the Operational teams and reporting to the management team.

• Detailed commercial analysis of various outputs and feedback to the project team to enable discussion of the impacts.

• Commercial support on tenders to communicate lessons learnt on live schemes where relevant.

• Submission of monthly application for payment in line with the contractual dates with full substantiation required to ensure the value is certified correctly. This includes on site measurement where possible.

• Consider and value the diverse needs of customers at all stages of your work processes.

• Agreement of final accounts in a timely manner

Candidate Profile

• A methodical thinker.

• Skilled at prioritising effectively, and able to deal with multiple responsibilities and deadlines.

• A fluent communicator and able to build legacy relationships with people at all levels.

• Detail orientated, identifying and resolving opportunities for improvement.

• Organised and able to maintain and file sufficient records throughout the project.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office

• Degree qualified in quantity surveying, or commercial management accredited.