Quantity Surveyor

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic business that is experiencing exceptional growth. At the Elite Metal Group, we love what we do, and we enjoy working with people that are passionate about their role and the difference that they can make within our business and the built environment.

The Quantity Surveyor will be working across the entire Elite group, but we expect their core responsibility will be the Structural Steelwork division and their focus will be on incoming payment, whilst still being involved with cost management and reporting as well. The Quantity Surveyor will work within the commercial team to maximise financial recovery while maintaining good relationships with customers and throughout the supply chain.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure the timely and maximised payment to the group
• Complete the Payment Application and Valuation process for the contracts/projects within your division, with assistance within the commercial team.
• Facilitate problem solving with invoicing and receiving of payment.
• Prepare and assist with negotiation of Final Accounts.
• Identify, price, justify and negotiate variations. Technical expertise within the company is available to assist with this.
• Identify and communicate contract requirements and risk.
• Ability to gain detailed understanding of a scope of work, to ensure it is adhered to.
• Review and negotiate contracts, both with clients and supply chain.
• Develop and optimise Activity Schedules, WBS or BOQ to suit the specific project.
• Contribute to tenders, particularly review of contract documents, from time to time.
• Extract, adjust and organise information from software programs to input into existing Monthly Reporting processes.
• Provide information for cashflow forecasting to ensure accuracy and relevance.
• Provide commercial information as requested by senior management from time to time.
• Facilitate supply chain payments ensure contractual responsibilities are met.
• Engage with supply chain to tender and subcontract specialist trades.

Key measures and targets:

• Meet all contractual and internal commercial deadlines
• Ensure Up-to-date and valid income and expenditure forecasting.
• Identify and challenge resources and costs.

The successful candidate will have:

• Bachelor's or higher degree in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, Engineering or similar qualification.
• A minimum of 2 years experience within the construction industry.
• A minimum of 2 years experience in quantity surveying or other commercial management role/s.
• Ideally at least 1 year experience involved in hard fabric and/or structural trades.
• Functional knowledge of common construction contracts, particularly JCT, and an understanding of construction law, disputes and subcontracting.
• Responsibility for contracts they are allocated, to ensure all relevant tasks necessary to get best commercial outcome are being done correctly or relevant people informed if not.
• Proven ability to successfully engage with clients and build relationships.
• Ability to work under pressure and deliver results.
• Strong analytical, problem solving and critical thinking skills.
• The right to work and live in the UK, or willingness to reimburse business for costs related to visa.

Location: This is a fulltime office-based role at our Perivale Head Quarters in west London. There will be visits to sites/meetings across London, approximately monthly, for which travel costs will be reimbursed. Typical hours of work will be 8am until 5pm Monday to Friday.

Benefits: We can offer a salary of £50,000 to 60,000 per year depending on experience, along with 20 days plus Bank Holidays annual leave and Pension Scheme. We also have regular team social events at office and off site and in workplace training.

About Us: At the Elite Metal Group, we consider ourselves to be the steel fabrication experts. The Group is currently made up of 5 key divisions or sub-brands, all with their own area of expertise. Our annual turnover has been growing each year, last year it was £12m. Certain areas of our business have been trading for more than 70 years which has allowed us to establish competitive buying rates and a formidable team of skilled craftsman and detailers. The Elite Metal Group is based in North-West London and is proud to be the ONLY London based steel supplier that can survey, design, manufacture, paint, deliver and install using our own in-house facilities and highly professional Team.