Quantity Surveyor

Location

Andover, Hampshire | United Kingdom

Job description

Your new company
Your new company is a residential house builder, a leading contractor who are based in Hampshire on the South Coast. As a company, they carry out a range of new builds, special works, and interiors projects in the private and public sectors. They help build a mentoring and training programme that suits each worker, to ensure they succeed in their career with them.

Your new role
As part of the Commercial team, you will play an important role in providing assurance commercial costs and value for money, from the assessment of tenders; to the monitoring of spend activity, performance and contract progress; to the authorisation of payments and variations. You will work as part of a team of Quantity Surveyors, set up to support a wide range of workstreams across operational regions, ranging from housing repairs and maintenance, planned and major works programmes, to mechanical and engineering, external works and fire safety and compliance works. You will be able to demonstrate excellent communication and relationship building skills, including a willingness to challenge operational colleagues and subcontractors and highlight opportunities to improve value for money.
Key accountabilities for the role will include:

• Providing a professional and cost-effective QS service
• Undertaking cost/VFM analysis and workstream reviews
• Contract monitoring, including the reporting of changes which may affect project costs, volumes or delivery timescales
• Preparation of monthly valuation reports
• Supporting the annual budget and forecasting process
• Attending and contributing to sub-contractor meetings
• The authorisation and administration of sub-contractor payments and works order variations
• Supporting procurement processes and tender evaluation

What you\'ll need to succeed

Ideally, you will have experience working with the social housing sector as you'll understand the challenges in this field. You'll be able to demonstrate post qualification or equivalent professional experience in a commercial QS/Estimator role. You will have experience of managing the commercial aspects of successful schemes within a housing investment, repair or maintenance setting, demonstrating your strong understanding of governance and risk management of supply contracts.

You'll be up-to-date with industry knowledge, innovation and regulations.
It goes without saying that you'll need to be a great communicator, building strong relationships with key stakeholders, alongside providing clear reports that provide both the detail and assurances that are required.
As you'll be out and about in our operating regions, you'll need a full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes. This is a hybrid role. You'll ideally spend one day a week in the office and some of your timeout on site. My clients\' operating regions include Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall.

What you\'ll get in return
In return, you\'ll be working for a well established, highly successful company. You\'ll be given a mentoring and training programme to ensure you succeed and grow with the company. They offer a great flexible life-work balance.

What you need to do now
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£50k - £60k per annum