Senior Quantity Surveyor
Your new company is a large principal contractor that has been awarded two projects in Surrey situated side by side in a town centre location. The first is a new 6-storey building with basement car parking and rooftop plant room. The ground floor will contain a laboratory, a write-up area, a fitness suite, a café, a loading bay, a substation, and a generator with floors above containing 60% CL2 labs with 40% commercial space around a central core. This project is valued at approximately £76 million with a practical completion date scheduled for December 2025. The adjacent project is a design & build contract consisting of 2 office buildings including some Cat A Fit-outs and a multi-storey car park along with associated public realms assets. The value stands at approximately £22million with a practical completion date set as December 2024.
Your new role is to be based on site and be responsible for assisting on all commercial aspects of the project, providing commercial support and advice to the team to aid decision-making, maintaining commercial information, and ensuring compliance with the contractual requirements. You will procure subcontract packages, you will assist with monitoring contract progress against the agreed programmes, control costs against agreed budgets/end cost forecasts, prepare and agree interim valuations and final accounts, prepare, and agree any necessary claims for reimbursements and for loss and expense and will liaise with the customers and third parties on all commercial matters. It is the Quantity Surveyors' responsibility to be aware of any potential implications for dispute resolution and to contribute and develop appropriate quality, health and safety, welfare, and risks in accordance with the companies' management systems. There is a particular emphasis on temporary works and interface with stakeholders from the public EG utility companies and local authorities.
What you'll need to succeed You will be degree qualified and already have UK construction experience, sound commercial awareness, excellent communication & negotiation skills, high levels of organisational skills, the ability to meet deadlines, excellent numerical, IT and problem-solving skills, the ability to work in a fast-moving environment, the ability to work on, initiative with minimum supervision, good knowledge of construction contracts particularly JCT Form and provide references in the UK to prove this. You must have the right to work in the UK. You will live within 45 minutes of the travel from Kingston as the working hours are thirty-nine per week, but you may be required to work longer hours to fulfil your job requirements.
What you'll get in return is a competitive salary of £52,000-£81,000, car allowance or car, 33 days annual leave entitlement, generous pension contributions, life assurance, mentoring for your career progression to become trained and promoted by an organisation with a growing order book.
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- Senior Quantity Surveyor Job Surrey salary £52-81k new build commercial high-rise development
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