Assistant Quantity Surveyor

Due to new sites starting, we're looking to expand our commercial team, so we are excited to share that we have a great opportunity for an experienced Assistant Quantity Surveyor to join the business. Watkin Jones 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. This is a challenging role where you’ll initially be working on our purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) development in London. 

We look for our Assistant Quantity Surveyors to work autonomously and take responsibility for measuring the materials/quantities required by analysing drawings and liaising with the sub-contractors for quotations so ideally, to manage the level of responsibility in this role you'll need two plus years’ experience within Quantity Surveying. As part of this exciting role, you’ll be involved with comparing different prices from different costs and will prepare sub-contract orders for approval by the Quantity Surveyor as well as preparing sub-contract payments for current contracts. 

The role is based at our office in Soho Square, London, however, to offer you the right level of experience and so your skills can develop, there will be time spent on site and this may, depending on location include overnight stays.

Why Join Us?

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.

We offer 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 and a contributory pension scheme.

About You

We're looking for someone with a level 4 qualification in a relevant / related field, (the first year of a bachelor’s degree, or a foundation degree / HNC or HND) and is passionate about a career within Quantity Surveying. 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 22,000 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.