Quantity Surveyor / Chartered Quantity Surveyor in London

What’s The Opportunity

We are recruiting a Quantity Surveyor / Chartered Quantity Surveyor with proven experience offering cost management services to join our team. In this role, you will work closely with senior team members, supporting the delivery of a variety of projects across London & the South East, while supporting junior team members.

We work on a diverse range of projects, including in the Healthcare, Education, Residential, Heritage, Commercial & Data Centre sectors, with contract values from £500k – £200 million.

What you need to do to be effective in this role

• Day to day point of contact for the cost management of projects from £500k – £200m
• Provide advice on contracts, tendering & procurement strategies, risk management and value engineering, across both JCT & NEC suites of contract
• Provide cost advice across the RIBA Stages, including preparation of feasibility estimates, cost plans, pre-tender estimates, as well as post contract
• Lead client facing meetings, working with multi-disciplinary teams
• Advise clients and project design teams on cost implications of different construction methods & materials to ensure the project remains within budget
• Undertake measurement in accordance with defined standards
• Prepare, issue, evaluate and report on tenders
• Prepare contract documentation
• Manage project costs during construction and negotiate final accounts
• Agreement of monthly valuations
• Preparation of monthly cost reports
• Valuing and agreeing post contract variations
• Undertake cost research, market testing, data capture etc
• Contribute to / manage cost benchmarking development
• Assist with compliance & QA requirements
• Develop relationships with existing clients, consultants and contractors.

The skills and experience you need to have for this role

• MRICS Chartered, or working towards
• Understanding of JCT & NEC contract suites & varied procurement routes
• Experience of relevant QS software applications, CostX, Bluebeam etc.
• Personable way of working, with a track record of good Client relationships
• Project leadership experience highly desirable
• Commercially focused.
• You will be professional, with good communication skills
• Self-starter with problem solving attitude.

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