Quantity Surveyor in London

CBRE is the global leader in real estate services and leverages the industry's most powerful knowledge base to meet the commercial real estate needs of its clients worldwide. Our vision is to be the preeminent, vertically integrated, globally capable real estate service firm. Globally we employ over 100,000 employees and operate in 48 countries.

Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) is a division of CBRE uniquely positioned to provide a complete set of services to corporate occupiers of commercial real estate across EMEA. GWS is redefining 'workplace' because we believe every place of work can become a competitive advantage for our clients. Productivity, reliability, engagement, quality, brand - the workplace contributes to business results, whether it's an office, a retail outlet, a laboratory, a data centre, a manufacturing environment or a virtual location.

Responsibilities:

• Manages all facets of cost management (budget, schedule, procurement, quality & risk) for individual real estate projects or programs throughout planning, design, construction, occupancy and closeout.
• Lead the administration associated with funding all project work, including creation of funding documents in use by the client (such as purchase orders or Capital funding requests).
• Work with Project Managers to ensure compliance with these systems; promote proactive creation/submission of all necessary funding documents to ensure all project work is funded in compliance with Client's internal funding policies.
• Evaluate project scope and client needs to develop and present recommended budgets for necessary pre-bid and pre-construction cost estimating and cost planning services.
• Partner with project team to source and oversee the pre-bid and pre-construction services associated with the development of a project budget and cost plan.
• Produce concept level estimates to aid feasibility studies and assist with business cases, leveraging a range of information from simple internal benchmarking to detailed market data and estimates taken from drawings and specifications.
• Issue recommendations to produce costing of greater detail; incorporate estimator into project team - manage performance of estimating tasks/deliverables.
• Support project manager team in the implementation of all project procurement in accordance with CBRE corporate policies and guidelines; make recommendations on the project procurement strategy.
• Lead the analysis of bid/tender responses, leveling all responses and organizing the data into a concise yet thorough report for presentation to the Client. Include recommendations for items such as allowances, contingencies, and reserves.
• Create and manage a detailed cost plan; produce and maintain detailed cost reports on a regular basis and present these reports to the Client.
• Align cost plan with project master schedule; provide cost guidance and direction to achieve cost goals with scope/schedule.
• Establish strategy to manage cash flows and project accruals and report progress in a manner consistent with CBRE policy yet flexible to adapt to client's needs/systems.
• Reconcile all estimates and change orders; scrutinize, analyze and perform due diligence on all change orders; lead reconciliation meetings with General Contractors, Project Managers and third party consultancies.
• Update cost plan/report accordingly and advise project team of cost risk mitigation strategies required to maintain cost compliance; advise project team and Client of high risk cost issues.
• Assist the Client and design team with life cycle costing of LEED/sustainability initiatives (as appropriate).
• Review all invoices against cost plan; provide valuation services and signoff to project team (subject to CBRE approval limits) in collaboration with team members charged with validation work has been completed to required scope and level of quality.
• Capture project costs for contribution to CBRE cost benchmarking/estimating databases and tools.
• Where applicable, provide tools, processes and training to ensure all team members provide cost management services consistently across a project, program or geography.
• Proactively seek opportunities to improve delivery of services; adjust as needed.
• Manages 3rd party cost delivery resources/team at both the project level or regional level.
• Responsible for ensuring 3rd parties deliver all procured services and deliverables and escalate as appropriate.
• Suggest and implement contractual adjustments as appropriate.