At a Glance
- Tasks: Join our team as a Quantity Surveyor, managing tenders and collaborating with direct labour teams.
- Company: Established property services company with over 75 years of experience.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, profit share, private health, enhanced pension, and training opportunities.
- Other info: Dynamic work environment with excellent career development and employee support.
- Why this job: Be part of impactful projects in social housing and public sectors while growing your career.
- Qualifications: Experience in quantity surveying, estimating, and working with direct teams is essential.
The predicted salary is between 40500 - 49500 £ per year.
Our client are expanding their commercial team out of their Watford office. They are looking for an enthusiastic, people focused and entrepreneurial Quantity Surveyor to join their dedicated commercial and operational team, who specialise in Painting and Decorating and associated planned refurbishment works to the public, private, residential and educational sector.
Ideally they are looking for a Quantity Surveyor with experience dealing and working with direct labour teams of people, time sheets etc. Any background in painting, brickwork, plastering, roofing, or new builds in terms of QS could work for this role along with tendering, estimating and refurbishments but dealing and working with direct teams is a big tick. However, if you have any exposure in regards to QS in painting work worth mentioning that in the CV.
- Live within easy travelling of Watford area
- Formal qualifications or surveyor training
- Any exposure to Painting/Decorating
They have been an established and leading property services company for over 75 years, based across England and Wales, in over 18 locations and 32 Business Units, so very well established. They are looking for an experienced Quantity Surveyor to work as part of their fantastic Painting team. The main customer base will be Social Housing and Council/Local authority, Housing Associations so you really need to highlight any experience (on your CV and the summary) in these sectors or projects you've worked as this would be beneficial as well.
They value their employees and offer an exceptional benefits package:
- Be part of the company profit share scheme (9.33% of base salary achieved last year)
- Private mileage scheme and a fuel card
- Enhanced employer pension contribution of up to 7% OR a savings scheme
- Life, Medical and Permanent Health Insurance
- Annual leave, but you may want longer or less, so buy up to 5 days or sell up to 3 days per year
- Access to the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity to support your health and wellbeing, including free legal and financial advice
- Annual pay reviews
- Enhanced maternity/paternity pay
- Training and development opportunities
- Trade discounts from our preferred suppliers for you and your friends and family, and Specsavers vouchers
The Quantity Surveyor role:
As a Quantity Surveyor, you will actively tender, estimate and measure onsite and also liaise with direct labour at the client. We can offer a variety of works including established frameworks and core contracts with prestigious clients within the public, and residential sector as well as our services covering into the retirement living, commercial and education sectors too. Measure and prepare cost estimates for contracts and tenders, highlighting any commercial risks. Prepare cost value reconciliations for contracts, identifying commercial risks and opportunities to ensure correct contract planning from the outset. Work closely with the Contracts Manager to ensure productivity labour targets are agreed and issued before contract start, including direct labour incentives where possible. Complete and analyse weekly reporting from site, ensuring it has adequate cost information (including labour rates and performance expectations, budgets, value, progress, quality, and safety).
What will you bring as Quantity Surveyor?
You will be inquisitive, organised, and honest as well as being a genuine people person who thrives when collaborating with clients, trade teams and immediate colleagues. Fostering a real working together environment, whilst building valued long-term relationships. Proven experience in a similar estimating and surveying role. Experience of the commercial management of projects from tender and estimation stages through to final account. You will describe yourself as commercial, analytical, and accurate in your approach.
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