Assistant Quantity Surveyor

We are excited to share that we have a great opportunity for an experienced Assistant Quantity Surveyor to join our Commercial team. We can offer you professional mentoring from members of the commercial team, and hands on, practical experience working for one of UK’s most successful construction and development companies. It's a great time to join our team as you’ll initially be working on our six -storey, 260 bed PBSA development which will be built in the industrial area east of Temple Meads, an area that has been earmarked for massive regeneration projects over the next few years.

Our Assistant Quantity Surveyors are expected to work autonomously and will take responsibility for measuring materials/quantities required by analysing drawings and liaising with the sub-contractors for quotations. You’ll be involved with comparing different prices from different costs and will prepare sub-contract orders for approval by the Quantity Surveyor / Senior Quantity Surveyor and prepare sub-contract payments with current contracts. Adhering to budgets and sourcing quotations which provide best value and best quality, you will pass quotation costs to the Senior Quantity Surveyor for authorisation, approval or feedback and input cost data for sub-contractors.

Although this role is home-based, you can also work with the wider commercial team from our rented office spaces in Village Hotel Group in South Wales / South West England . As this is an Assistant level role, we'll look to develop your skills and competencies - to action this development there will be time spent on site and this may, depending on location, include overnight stays.

Why Join Us?

Watkin Jones offers an in-house Learning & Development team to support you with personal and professional development including vocational qualifications, as well as a discretionary annual bonus, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (increasing after 2 years’ service by 1 day up to a max of 29 days per annum), a health cash plan, discounted gym memberships, life insurance, exclusive shopping discounts, a company car or generous car allowance and a contributory company pension scheme.

Watkin Jones’ success to date has been based on our emphasis on building relationships of trust, our customer focus, and our forward-thinking structure. Our intention is to create the future of living, which to us means high quality rental homes, community focus and sustainably driven development.

About You

So, if you hold a BTEC / A ‘Levels or have demonstrable experience in a relevant / related field and are passionate about a career within Quantity Surveying then we would love to hear from you.

Watkin Jones specialises in new build projects so ideally we'd like you have building project experience. You'll need to demonstrate excellent communication and organisational skills and have a strong attention to detail with the ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines. Good knowledge of Microsoft Office including Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint is also a must.

This role will suit an ambitious person with long term goals in the field of quantity surveying, helping to help take the organisation to the next phase of its evolution.

About Us

Watkin Jones Group is the UK’s leading developer, builder, and manager of residential for rent homes, with 52,000+ homes developed and in-build across 135 schemes. Our operating arm, Fresh, manages over 19,000 units across 64 schemes, reflecting approximately £1.7bn of assets under management, giving us unique and unrivalled insight into what tenants and investors desire.

Our company was established in 1791 and has been building homes since 1927. More recently, we listed on the AIM market in 2016, and have a current market cap of c.£250m. In FY2022 we generated gross revenue of £407m and a Gross Profit of £67m. Our position in the market is based on a ‘capital light’ model, where we typically work with institutional forward funders.