Quantity Surveyor

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Job description

Quantity Surveyor Job

The company
Our world-famous client builds homes and neighbourhoods across the UK. They revive underused land, specialising in long-term brownfield regeneration, focusing on challenging and complex sites that are beyond the scope of conventional homebuilders. They are highly collaborative, working with councils and communities to create a shared vision and to unlock a mix of social, environmental, economic, and commercial value that benefits all our stakeholders. Our client has a passion for quality and design underpins everything they do.

Why work for our client?
Our client offers career opportunities that are second to none and a range of projects that will challenge and stretch you. They strive to attract the best calibre of candidates and develop and retain at every level. What this means for you, is they take a holistic approach to employee experience, considering both physical and mental health as part of creating a safe, supportive, and positive working environment. They have an industry-leading safety record and we are continually building a diverse, engaged workforce, where there is an opportunity for employees to share and shape their experience of the workplace.

The role
- Based in the City of London
- Temp to permanent, paying up to 60k for top talent
- Plus, travel allowance and discretionary bonus
- Flexible working hours but predominantly collaborative office based 8-5

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
Preparation of reports as required | Identifying risks and opportunities | Understanding the approved Budget and package breakdowns | Liaising with the technical team and design consultants so as to ensure design concepts and proposals are developed in line with the approved budgets and procurement tracker | Monitoring changes so as to continuously identify the status of costs | Liaising with all members of the project team, including but not limited to construction, technical, sales, finance, customer service and estate management colleagues | To establish subcontract sources early in the programme so that they can contribute to the design in terms of value engineering and alternative solutions (early supply chain engagement) | Ensure procurement of all subcontract elements of the development are completed in accordance with the company requirements and sustainability objectives | Preparing scope of works and trade packages | Preparing selected tender list for approval | Subcontract tendering | Holding and taking minutes of Subcontract Post-Tender and Pre-Order Meetings | Preparing subcontract documentation | Raising subcontractor payments and ensuring associated notices and documentation are issued in a timely manner | Sending agreed number of copies of all Contract | Drawings and any revised drawings as issued to subcontractors | Forecasting value of design variations | Agreeing variations with subcontractor | Countersigning site instructions | Producing subcontractor instruction\/variation reports | Agreeing final account with subcontractors | Fully completing monthly cost reports for approval | Attending Design Team Meetings as required | Attending subcontractor progress meetings as required | Valuing customer change variations

Technical Competencies:
Ideally Quantity Surveying or Construction degree level educated with 2+ years industry experience
Preferably membership of a professional body (CIOB, RICS)

Personal Specification:
Proactive, self-driven, results-oriented with a positive outlook | Keen to deliver exceptional customer service | An effective leader, motivator and mentor | Flexible and reliable | Credible, and comfortable in dealing with a wide variety of stakeholders | Reliable, tolerant, and determined | Team player | Empathic communicator, able to see things from the other person's point of view | Well-presented and business like

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