Senior Quantity Surveyor

Senior Quantity Surveyor (Building Consultancy) – Hazel Grove, Stockport

Our client was founded in 2003 as a building consultancy comprising of chartered building surveyors providing surveying services to key clients predominantly within the education sector. The consultancy has grown into a multi-disciplinary practice offering end to end services with every member of the design team in-house allowing for greater control for our client’s projects over a wide range of services across several sectors.

We are seeking an ambitious and driven candidate who can drive projects from inception through to completion and should preferably have experience of a range of contracts including JCT. Candidates must also be customer focused and have excellent interpersonal, communication and time management skills. Candidates will have a relevant degree, have a technical background appropriate to the core services that our client offers with skills to work across a range of sectors including notably the education sector.

Main Responsibilities

* Lead on commercial deliverables throughout the lifecycle of projects

* Contract administration and manage change through the contract

* Ensure cost control is monitored and maintained throughout all functions (design, procurement and delivery)

* Provide support and mentoring to assistant QS’s

* Prepare subcontract tender packages, carry out comparisons and place relevant orders

* Provide monthly cost & value forecasts

* Support the Lead QS in respect of wider issues

Candidate Specification

* Formal Q.S Qualification

* Work closely design and operations within the project team

* Experience in a similar role from a design and build background

* Good level of QS experience

* Experience in estimating and procurement

* Flexibility to travel when required

* Knowledge of construction contracts including preliminaries and JCT’s

* Experience in the tender and target cost process and the review of such documents

* Strong IT skills with experience of excel and MS Office

* Full clean UK driving license

Equality, diversity and inclusion Our client is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community. Our client promotes an open and transparent culture and a workplace where everyone feels included and is treated fairly and with respect.

Agile working Our client is committed to providing a flexible and agile working environment that supports both their employees and the needs of the business. This role is likely to be on a hybrid basis (2-3 days in office).

What our client offers

* Progression opportunities: 2024/2025 is looking really healthy in terms of pipeline of work; with a plan to further expand the team this year. The right candidate will be Invested in professionally with regard to fast tracking them up to Associate Director level.

* 28 days holiday plus bank holidays

* Support in terms of learning and development (e.g. Chartership).

* The opportunity to be involved throughout the whole project life cycle.

* Working on behalf of a progressive, forward thinking, and rapidly growing company.

* Hybrid working opportunity (2-3 days per week).

* £30 per month mobile phone allowance (or company phone)

* £30 per month healthy eating/gym allowance