At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage project budgets and ensure successful delivery of fire remediation projects.
- Company: Join Persimmon Homes, one of the UK's leading housebuilders.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, company car, healthcare, and bonus opportunities.
- Other info: Dynamic team environment with opportunities for professional growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in fire safety while building your career.
- Qualifications: Experience in quantity surveying and strong commercial management skills required.
The predicted salary is between 51750 - 63250 £ per year.
Location: Camberley, GU15
Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity? Join Persimmon Homes as Quantity Surveyor and step into a role where your success is celebrated, your growth supported, and your work truly matters.
Why Persimmon Homes?
- We're one of the UK's largest and most established housebuilders — FTSE 100 listed, with 29 regional offices and thousands of quality homes built every year.
- At Persimmon, we don't just build homes — we build careers.
When you join us as Quantity Surveyor you'll benefit from:
- Competitive salary
- Company Car/Car Allowance
- 5* housebuilder - Be part of a company that consistently delivers quality homes and outstanding customer satisfaction
- Life Cover & Contributory Pension
- Healthcare
- Bonus
- Employee Benefits Platform – giving you access to high-street discounts, wellbeing support, and more
- Committed to diversity, inclusion, and empowering your development
What is the role?
This is an exciting opportunity for a Quantity Surveyor to join the Special Projects team where you will provide client-side commercial support across Persimmon Group Special Projects. You will be taking responsibility for cost management, procurement, contractual matters and commercial risk from project inception through to completion and final account.
You will help maintain strong commercial control across a portfolio of fire safety and external wall remediation projects, working closely with Project Managers, consultants, contractors and other stakeholders to ensure projects are delivered safely, compliantly and within approved budgets.
What you'll do as a Quantity Surveyor:
- Manage project budgets, cash flow forecasts, cost reporting and overall commercial performance across remediation projects.
- Lead and support procurement activities, including reviewing tender documentation, evaluating bids, comparing costs and making contractor appointment recommendations.
- Review and assess contractor payment applications, valuations, variations, forecasts and cost reports, making recommendations for certification and commercial decisions.
- Manage change control, assessing the financial impact of design development, latent defects, programme changes, delays, extensions of time and acceleration.
- Support commercial negotiations, claims, disputes and the agreement of final accounts, ensuring commercial risks and opportunities are appropriately managed.
- Review surveys, technical reports and design information to identify cost implications, commercial risks and opportunities.
- Work collaboratively with Project Managers and design teams to maintain commercial control throughout delivery, including participation in project and design meetings.
- Maintain accurate and auditable commercial records, ensure compliance with contractual, Group and statutory requirements, and capture lessons learned and final cost data.
What experience do I need?
- Proven experience as a Quantity Surveyor within the construction industry, with strong knowledge of procurement and commercial management.
- Experience managing project costs, valuations, forecasting, change control, contractual matters and final accounts, with a strong understanding of JCT contracts.
- Strong commercial, analytical and negotiation skills, with the ability to assess technical information and understand its commercial implications.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to manage contractors, consultants and multiple projects and competing priorities.
- Degree, HNC, HND or equivalent qualification in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management or a related discipline; MRICS or working towards chartership is desirable.
- Experience in fire/cladding remediation, building safety, occupied residential projects, knowledge of the Building Safety Act 2022, and experience with a major housebuilder, developer, Tier 1 or specialist remediation contractor is desirable.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word and commercial reporting systems, alongside a full UK driving licence.
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