Quantity Surveyor
Location: Calder House, Elland. HX5 9DX (Office). Predominantly site based (regional travel).
Hours: 42 hours per week, Monday to Friday 8.00am-5.00pm, Friday 8.00am-4.30pm, with 30 minute lunch break
Salary: Dependant on experience
Role Overview
Reporting to the Managing Surveyor and Contracts Manager, the Quantity Surveyor will be responsible for managing all commercial and contractual aspects of project delivery, across a range of projects generally valued between £200k and £10m, whilst ensuring compliance to all legal and quality standards.
The Quantity Surveyor will also be required to support cost development and commercial management during the pre-construction phase of projects as necessary, particularly those with which are developed on a two-stage or negotiated basis.
Working collaboratively with the wider project delivery team, the Quantity Surveyor will ensure full co-ordination with the operational team and work in harmony with the Contracts Manager or Project Manager to ensure commercial success and client satisfaction on each project.
The successful candidate will be required to commercially manage several projects at once taking full commercial responsibility for the projects allocated.
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Key Responsibilities
- Develop a detailed understanding of the client requirements and contractual obligations for each project and advise of any key risks to the bid team.
- Undertake high level cost planning and estimates during pre-construction phase.
- Manage and maintain procurement schedule(s) to ensure visibility and timely procurement across all projects.
- Prepare robust tender documents and subcontract enquiries to meet all requirements of the project, including our commitment to local supply chain spend.
- Undertake due diligence of supply chain members in line with company governance procedures, ensuring suitability of each supply chain member.
- Develop and implement suitable contracts, both with the client and supply chain.
- Ensure contract administration is undertaken throughout the lifecycle of each project to adequately protect the business and ensure compliance with contractual obligations.
- Prepare and submit project valuations and final accounts to the client, including pricing and agreeing variations.
- Monthly commercial reports to Managing Surveyor (CVRs, profit forecasting, cash flow etc).
- Actively manage the risk and opportunity identification process throughout to ensure visibility and adequate mitigations and forecasting can be implemented.
- Ensure compliance with all internal commercial processes.
Requirements
As well as exhibiting our company behaviours of being Positive, Professional, Customer Focused, a Team Player and Doing the Right Thing, the successful candidates will have the following:
Essential:
- Experience across our core markets of health and education, including both refurbishment and new build.
- Have a strong knowledge of current Health and Safety practice and the ability to work closely with the operational team to ensure holistic decision making.
- A good understanding of the financial implications of methods and sequences of build.
- Ability to work on multiple projects at any one time and prioritise time and tasks accordingly.
- Extensive experience of working on NEC and JCT contracts (formal accreditation desirable)
- Hold a professional qualification in Quantity Surveying.
- Proactive attitude towards delivering construction works to a world-class standard
- Excellent communications skills and the ability to liaise with senior clients & subcontractors.
- Ability to work using own initiative but also as part of a close-knit team.
- Possess a positive approach to learning, development and progression.
- Have a flexible approach towards working patterns (some out of hours working may be required to meet client deadlines).
- Excellent levels of computer literacy, and be fluent in Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel.
- Hold a full driving licence, valid in the UK.
Sewell Group is an equal opportunities employer, recruiting within the guidelines of the Equality Act 2010. We are committed to the promotion of diversity and equal opportunity, as an employer and in the delivery of our products and services.
As a committed safe employer, an enhanced DBS (criminal record) check will be carried out for the successful candidate of this role.
Benefits
- Competitive Salary, Dependent on experience
- Annual Bonus opportunity
- 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), rising with length of service to 30 days
- Being a Co-Owner of Sewell Estates, learn more here: Employee Ownership - Sewell Group (sewell-group.co.uk)
- Auto Enrolment pension
- Staff discounts
- High Street & Retail discount schemes
- Bike 2 Work Scheme
- Technology Scheme
- Paid Parental Leave and Sickness Absence schemes
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- Would you consider yourself to be a positive and energetic individual?
- Do you enjoy working with people?
- Do you have experience in the health and education sector, including both refurbishment and new build?
- Do you have a strong knowledge of current Health and Safety practices?
- Do you have etensive experience of working on NEC and JCT contracts (formal accreditation desirable)?
- Do you hold a professional qualification in Quantity Surveying?
- Do you have excellent levels of computer literacy in Microsoft Office products, specifically Outlook, Word and Excel?
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