Senior Quantity Surveyor

Job Description:

Senior Quantity Surveyor - Building / Construction – Education DFE Project to start
Location – East Midlands / Lincoln / Nottinghamshire / Derbyshire

(Mix of East Mids office "Derbyshire", site visits "Lincoln" and remote work).

Open to consider an already experienced Senior QS or a QS ready for step up / promotion.   

Company:

Opportunity to join one of the UK's leading building main contractors, working on a long term multi million pound Education sector project in Lincoln to start.

Initially working on the project at preconstruction stage and then in project delivery to completion, altogether is circa 3 years local work on this project alone.

What Makes it Great?

-Opportunity to join one of the UK's leading Tier 1 main contractors

-Diverse range of building sector projects to keep things interesting (including Education, Commercial, MOJ, Student Accommodation, PRS and Hotels).

-Multi-Million Pound Construction Projects, initial scheme circa £40m.

-Very Stable business, with strong forward order book, already full workload for next year and well into the following year, ideal employer for long term job security.

-Excellent place for career progression with a busy work order book creating internal progression opportunities.

Role:

As a Senior Quantity Surveyor your role will include:

To ensure the successful financial completion of projects, protecting the exposure of the Company to financial risks, together with adherence to the commercial procedures of the Business.  Responsible for the commercial management of a section of a large project or on several smaller projects.

Duties: 

As Senior Quantity Surveyor, your duties will include:

• Co-ordinating with, reporting to and implementing the reasonable directives of the Regional Director/Manager and the Commercial Manager (functional reporting).
• Ensuring the timely submission of all relevant data required to monitor and analyse individual contract performance on a monthly and quarterly basis thereafter.
• Liaising with Contracts Managers on the day-to-day commercial administration of contracts to ensure the financial success of construction operations and to keep the Commercial Manager appraised of all material events.
• Preparing accurate draft sub-contracts and/or to approving such drafts as prepared by Commercial Team within the Region.
• Supervising, mentoring and encouraging junior staff in their personal professional development.
• Ensuring consultation with contracts management that all necessary notices and submissions required by the various forms of contract are given in an expedient manner.
• Ensuring that main contract payment applications contain all necessary admeasure/additional cost claims and that the timely submission of detailed claims and final accounts is achieved.
• Assisting Contracts Manager in the administration of sub-contractor performance so as to ensure the economic and timely completion of all sub-contractor liabilities written into the sub-contract.
• Ensuring prompt and regular submission of main contract payment applications and subsequent cash collection together with the preparation of sub-contractor payments (strictly in accordance with specified payment terms).
• Involvement in dispute avoidance/resolution.
• Responsible for managing meetings.
• Line management responsibility for members of the commercial team.

Requirements:

To be considered for this Quantity Surveyor role you must meet the following criteria:

-Previous employment as a QS / Quantity Surveyor, Project Surveyor, Senior QS or Commercial Manager.

-Previous Main contractor employment.

-Previous building sector project experience is essential.

-Ideally previous Education / School sector project experience.

Remuneration:

-Competitive basic  (dependent on experience)  

-Car Allowance

-Pension

-Healthcare

To be considered for this vacancy or to find out more information please apply now.
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