Quantity Surveyor Housing Response and Maintenance

Our client in Bristol, seeking a Quantity Surveyor – ( Housing Response and Maintenance ) continues to have a fantastic year full of growth and opportunity company wide. They are excited to announce they have secured another long-term contract enabling them to open a new Response/ Maintenance Business, based in their already established Bristol Business.

• 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.
• Their main customer base is Social Housing and Council/ Local authority, Housing Associations and this is a reactive maintenance contract and the housing stock is very concentrated within Bristol area therefore not much widespread travel.
• The main criteria is someone with reactive maintenance experience – having managed the commercial aspects of this type of contract before. SOR (schedule of rate contract) experience and knowledge is a big tick.

Salary: £54,900 inc car allowance, (6.5K) plus a private mileage scheme and fuel card, pension, healthcare, life insurance + profit share (last year 12%).

Of course, this type of experience working on a social housing contract is the goal but they can consider other transferrable industries (if you have response/reactive experience) for example retail (supermarket frameworks) even telecoms or rail – so used to managing high volumes of low value works.

As always, a friendly, can do, enthusiastic personality would suit the culture of our business. Someone who is honest, confident, hardworking, genuine – this is equally as important as the experience.

Ultimately, they are a commercially focused business, but focus on people, sustainability, and exceptional client delivery/customer satisfaction to achieve this. They seek a Quantity Surveyor to genuinely share in this ethos and to actively impact their commercial success from the very beginning of a new contract set up.

You will thrive in collaborating with the operational team, while managing the full commercial responsibility for the financial and commercial aspects of our responsive/reactive works for our local authority client.

Benefits:

• Be part of the company profit share scheme (12% of base salary achieved last year)
• Private mileage scheme and fuel card
• Let us help you prepare for your future with an enhanced employer pension contribution of up to 7% OR a savings scheme.
• Life, Medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• 23 days 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.
• Enhanced maternity/paternity pay.

The Quantity Surveyor role:

• Prepare budget cost value reconciliations, identifying commercial risks and opportunities to ensure correct contract planning from the beginning.
• Work closely with the Contracts Manager to ensure productivity targets and contract milestones are agreed and issued before contract start, including direct labour incentives.
• Build strong client and supplier relations, to ensure any variations and the progress of contracts are discussed and resolved proactively.
• Take purchase, credit and debtor responsibility using COINS to achieve expected cash flow.
• Complete and analyse weekly reporting from site has adequate cost information (including labour rates and performance exceptional to budget, value, progress, quality, and safety).
• Produce monthly contract valuations.

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.
• Proven experience in a similar quantity surveying/project surveying role – experience of working on reactive maintenance contracts, and/or with schedule of rates (SORs) would be particularly advantageous.
• Experience of successfully managing a value of works up to £3 million.
• A key eye for identifying areas to save money, reduce costs and maximise value.

Additional Benefits include:

• Annual pay reviews
• Training and development opportunities
• Trade discounts from our preferred suppliers for you and your friends and family
• Specsavers vouchers

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