New Opportunity - excellent salary, competitive benefits including car allowance + focused career path
This company is looking to recruit a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join their small client-focused team within their Burnham office.
This role presents an excellent opportunity for an experienced QS to take responsibility for providing QS services to clients across a wide variety of sectors including;
- Residential
- Education
- Healthcare
- Funder Due Diligence
Key Responsibilities:
- Accountable for the commercial and contractual performance of a project
- Delivering value for money in all circumstances
- Supporting commercial/procurement/ contractual strategies
- Selection, appointment and management of construction contractors
- Cost Planning including; preparation of indicative cost budgets and appraisals and elemental cost plans
- Provide advice and opinion in respect of our client development plans and expectations
- Value engineering studies
- Providing advice on procurement strategy
- Assembling and seeking agreement to long and short tender lists
- Preparing and issuing tender documents
- Running a competitive tender process including managing queries from tendering contractors
- Managing and contributing to structured and documented tender evaluations
- Preparation of Contract Recommendation Reports
- Preparation of contract documents
- Complaint tenders
- Post Contract Quantity Surveying including:
- Scrutinising and verifying applications for interim payments
- Preparing certificates
- Managing change control in accordance with contracts
- Producing cost reports and cost forecasting
- Attending progress meetings
- Promoting commercial awareness throughout project
- Supporting formal dispute resolution process and contract close out strategy as required
- Advising and liaising with internal project and cost control team
- Developing Commercial Strategies
The ideal candidate requirements:
Skills
Demonstrate a positive proactive approach to the role, with a focus on client delivery and overall commitment to good commercial results.
- Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying
- Strong QS delivery experience
- MRICS or membership of other relevant professional body
- Ability to successfully manage complex projects in a proactive and diligent manner
- Strong feasibility and cost planning experience
- Experience of providing procurement advice, tender documentation and post contract services
- Recent QS consultancy or end user client experience
- Team working and managing projects by prioritising workloads and delivering deadlines
- A team player, excellent communicator, flexible, enthusiastic and ambitious
If you believe this is your ideal role and you are focused on growing your QS career please click apply. They are also separately recruiting for a part time QS to join the team.