About the Role
The purpose of the role is a Quantity Surveyor with several years of experience managing all costs related to building and civil engineering projects. The QS will support senior members of the commercial team in delivering commercial duties and will be responsible for procuring and managing our supply chain. The role requires an active focus on minimising project costs while enhancing value for money and maintaining required standards and quality for our customers. The candidate should be chartered or in the final stages of achieving professional membership of RICS, ICES, or CIOB and serve as a peer role model for less experienced commercial team members.
What you’ll be doing
Governance
- Has a good knowledge of and adheres to the Company’s GMCEs, BMS and other governance
Analytical Thinking & Decision Making
- Orders information and systematically checks data
Cost Engineering
- Measure, record & value work unsupervised in accordance with appropriate rules and procedures
Estimating
- Measure & interpret specifications & drawings
- Build up estimates from first principle including net and gross estimates
- Translate measurement from drawings and specifications and prepare Bills of Quantities and Schedules of rates
Planning
- Review weekly, monthly, section programmes of works
- Plan commercial activities to meet requirements of section programmes
- Have an understanding of delay and disruption programmes
Project Management
- Use the company’s ERP System
- Collation of Cost and Value Information
- Preparation of Cost reconciliation statements
Procurement
- Collect information required to specify procurement requirements
- Record and document information including registration of interest
- Understand the steps / documentation required
Who We’re Looking For
Essential Qualifications
- BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying or experience equivalent
Desirable Qualifications
- Communication
- Teamwork
- Achievement Focus (Achieving Results)
- Previous Commercial Work experience
- Industry knowledge
Benefits
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
