Senior Quantity Surveyor

Senior Quantity Surveyor

• We have an opportunity for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our clients business.

They have a long-term partnership with a very reputable social housing client in Surrey, based out of their Guildford and/or Godalming Surrey offices and are looking for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join their established and growing team

Competitive salary + car/allowance £6,500 both including a private mileage scheme and fuel card , pension, healthcare, profit share looking like 10%

They are one of the UK’s largest privately-owned property services companies established for over 75 years, based across England and Wales, in over 18 locations and 32 Business Units.

They have a long-term partnership with a very reputable social housing client in Surrey, and are looking for a Sr QS to join their established and growing team.

Taking accountability for commercial functions while leading and supporting your Commercial team, the Senior Quantity Surveyor will play an integral role in ensuring their repairs and voids services continue to be successful and profitable whilst demonstrating value for money for their housing client.

We want to talk to commercial candidates who share their core values, honesty and integrity and enjoy managing, developing, and nurturing a high performing commercial team.

• They seek a commercially strong and financially focused ( Cost Control, so a financial bias or background a big advantage ) individual who enjoys the technical aspects of contracting and enjoys an open and team focused environment. You will work collaboratively with an experienced and supportive commercial and operational team.
• You could come from a Cost Management , Commercial Administration or Commercial Manager background as well as traditional QS .
• You may be a Cost Manager/ Commercial Analyst within the construction/ property services industry, and not currently working as a Quantity Surveyor, but that is ok, as they seek a commercially strong and financially focused individual who enjoys the technical aspects of contracting and enjoys an open and team focused environment, therefore they can be flexible with the commercial job title or background you come from.

Benefits:

• Be part of the company profit share scheme
• Car allowance of £6500 OR Company car option with a private mileage scheme. Both options include a fuel card
• Let us help you prepare for your future with an enhanced employer pension contribution of up to 7% OR a savings scheme
• Life, Medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Annual leave, but you may want longer or less, so buy up to 5 days or sell up to 3 days per year
• Access to an employee assistance program to support employee’s health and wellbeing, and free financial and legal advice.

The Senior Quantity Surveyor role:

As a Senior Quantity Surveyor , you will actively work as part of the commercial team whilst also taking the lead with commercial decisions and reporting to ultimately impact the unit’s profitability/commercial success and make improvements for the future.

Specific tasks will include:

• Developing and maintaining a high performing Surveying team to ensure delivery of contracts at or above agreed profit performance
• Overseeing and managing financial and technical aspects of the contract, including procurement, invoicing, and payment to minimise costs, maximise value and cash flow, and meet profit and debtor day targets.
• Managing the contract accounting and ensuring prompt payment control cost information. As well as preparing CVRs and valuations to closely monitor contract performance, striving for better solutions and outcomes and really steering the commercial contract performance
• Developing and maintaining positive and collaborative relationships with colleagues, customers/clients, subcontractors, and suppliers.

What will you bring as a Senior Quantity Surveyor ?

• Proven experience in a similar commercial or quantity surveying role along with some people management responsibilities/ experience
• A proven ability to minimise cost and maximise value, profit, and cash flow effectively, ideally from within a maintenance contracting environment or similar
• Strong people skills, IT and Microsoft Excel skills
• The ability to process high volumes of data analysis
• Experience working with direct labour and subcontract procurement
• Experience working on Schedule of Rates contracts is desirable, with the ability to price minor works from first principles.

Additional Benefits include:

• Annual pay reviews
• Enhanced maternity/ paternity pay
• Training and development opportunities
• Trade discounts from our preferred suppliers for you and your friends and family
• Specsavers vouchers