Senior Quantity Surveyor in Preston

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The Role:

GMC are currently looking for an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our team. The successful Senior Quantity Surveyor will be supporting the delivery of projects across all aspects of the business from a construction point of view.

Key Duties and Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Assist in the identification of commercial risks and opportunities and carry out value engineering exercises as required.
• Prepare and manage material procurement schedules.
• Encourage and develop a culture of contractual awareness and ensure that contracts are fulfilled by rigidly maintaining records, contractual notifications, change control, etc.
• Prepare internal cost/value reports for upper management and other departments.
• Ensure risk registers, variation trackers and extension of time tracker sheets are reviewed and updated monthly and included within monthly reports.
• Preparation of Cost Reports and reviewing of project cost reports.
• Attend monthly management meeting, report on commercial issues, and offer opinion on matters arising.
• Subcontractor procurement and account reviews during project.
• Daily liaison with accounts department.
• Review of supplier requisitions and accounts.
• Review of subcontractor documents and updating of templates, including appointment documents, payment certificates.
• Measure, price, negotiate and agree budgets and costs for variations to project scope.
• Check project costs are correct and raise/resolve queries where necessary.
• Management of commercial and contractual aspects of relationships with customers, consultants, and subcontractors.
• Assess subcontractor payment entitlement and process payments.
• Carry out reconciliation of cost and value to date/forecast to keep the management team informed of project performance.
• Assist in the guidance and development of junior surveyors.
• Manage project costs to ensure overall budgets are maintained.
• Look for opportunities to maximise revenue and reduce cost and identify and investigate losses.
• Advise on contractual matters general and project level.
• Process contractual claims and all associated records.
• Assist with project cash management.
• Advise and support with project correspondence.
• Negotiate and agree subcontractors.
• Negotiating subcontract and suppliers prices and terms.
• Ensure final accounts are closed in a timely manner.
• Ensure timely drafting of commercial/contractual correspondence.
• Prepare subcontract and suppliers documents.
• Prepare and review monthly cost reports.
• Negotiating subcontractors and suppliers final accounts.
• Variations: measurement and pricing.
• Variations: Negotiate with client, quantity surveyor and subcontractor.

The Candidate:

Required Experience and Competencies:

• Civils, drainage, or utilities (water & electricity) experience essential.
• Minimum 10+ years experience in a Quantity Surveying role within the construction or utilities sector.
• Professional qualification in Quantity Surveying/Commercial Management or equivalent is essential.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Suite essential.
• Full clean drivers license.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Confident, motivated, can work independently, be a team player as well as manage a team.
• Ability to work under pressure with strict deadlines, whilst keeping a close attention to detail.
• A strategic mind-set with time management abilities to meet targets, monitor progress and budgets, and report on performance.
• Excellent relationship management and interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively with colleagues to find the best solutions to challenges.

Become a part of something bigger. At the heart of GMC is our people, from engineers through to customer service and we aim to work collaboratively towards our common goals. GMC is an equal opportunity employer, and we aim to recruit and retain like-minded people from diverse backgrounds with a wide range of expertise. If you require any specific accommodations, we will make every reasonable effort to support you throughout the recruitment and selection process.

In GMC we foster a work culture that promotes collaboration and learning, building an environment where our people have the capacity to maximise their potential whilst gaining the opportunity to continuously develop.

Our Future:

Since the founding of GMC in 1981 by Gerry McCloskey, GMC has grown to be Ireland's leading Civils and Utilities company and the future for GMC is bright. We have engaged with our staff and other stakeholders to agree and publish our core values. One of our core values is to focus on the future. Our growth to date reflects the confidence that our customers have in our service delivery, in the innovative approach that we bring to how we do our work, and to our culture of safety and quality. We have ambitious plans to develop our footprint in Ireland and overseas but understand that every decision we make contributes to people's quality of life throughout generations, and we don't take that responsibility lightly as we build Ireland's infrastructure of tomorrow, today.

Skills: Civils, Drainage, Utilities, Water, Electricity