Quantity Surveyor in Altrincham

Join Panacea as a Quantity Surveyor. Location: North West based from Altrincham.

About Panacea

Panacea Building Systems deliver an offsite, light gauge steel frame solution for a number of key clients in the Healthcare and Residential sectors. Our commitment to quality has earned us recognition, including The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For and Investors in People Gold.

Our success is rooted in our EPIC values:

• Excellence: Creating a united team that takes pride in their work and drives improvement through collaboration.
• Passion: Delivering inspiring spaces through sustainable, inclusive methods.
• Innovation: Embracing creativity to solve industry challenges.
• Collaboration: Aligning with all stakeholders for efficient, high-quality outcomes.

Job Description:

Working as part of the commercial team and reporting to the Director, the duties would include assisting with the following:

• Labour Only Sub-Contractor (LOSC) & Subcontractor Management:
• Accurately prepare take off of works to determine labour schedules and wallbooks.
• Ongoing measurement of works and communication with LOSC operatives and site team in this regard.
• Accurate valuation of payments to be processed to LOSC.
• Procure, Issue and Manage all elements relating to any bona-fide sub-contractor orders and payments.
• Cost / Cash Management:
• Formulate cash flow forecasts – Value and costs to be issued to Directors for cash management.
• Preparation, submission and agreement of Final accounts within a maximum of 3 months from completion of project.
• Assist Senior QS to Prepare and update contract workbooks (materials, labour and value).
• Supply Chain Management / Resource Management:
• Assist site teams in preparation and production of material schedules – both pre contract and during live project.
• Contract Risk and Opportunity:
• Prepare and agree all variations, ensuring accurate record keeping and timely presentation to client.
• Management of claims and disputes – submission of all required documentation to substantiate this.
• Identify opportunities for value engineering and betterment on material opportunities.
• Create, maintain and update risk & opportunity register for your live projects.
• Monitor progress on site against contract programme and where required, prepare claims for extension of time/additional preliminaries in a timely manner with input from the contract manager.
• Reporting:
• Monthly preparation and analysis on commercial position of live project(s).
• Accurate preparation, completion and submission of CVRs reports.
• Accurate preparation, completion and submission of OTFs including accurate forecast costs to completion.
• Preparation of all information relevant for MPR meetings – this includes preparation of MPR commercial report.
• Provide commercial support to the Directors to ensure all correspondence issued to clients is in accordance with contractual obligations.
• Client Management:
• Maintain professional relationship with key client stakeholders, ensuring high level of service is maintained throughout, particularly if dealing with claims and disputes.
• Deal with all client issues quickly and efficiently, removing where possible chance of late (or zero) payments to us.
• Issue of commercial correspondence to client including; extension of time/delay notifications and variations.
• Strategy & Policy:
• Take part in and prepare all relevant information for Post contract review meetings – ensuring lessons learnt and best practice is utilised on future projects.
• Actively challenge procedures that are in place to create more efficient ways of working and / or commercial, financial gain.

Requirements:

• Surveying Degree or an equivalent qualification/experience.
• Experience of working for a Specialist Contractor.
• Design and build experience, ideally with JCT contracts.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experienced in commercially managing large scale projects.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook.

Benefits:

• 6% Employer Workplace Pension.
• 25 days’ holiday + Statutory Holiday ‘Buy Back’ scheme + bonus birthday holiday.
• Healthcare Scheme.
• 1 days paid ‘Change the World’ volunteering day.

Panacea is an equal opportunities employer, which seeks to ensure that no applicant receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of; gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status or race.