Quantity Surveyor / Senior Quantity Surveyor

Elvet Recruitment have been appointed to recruit a Quantity Surveyor, or Senior QS, for a leading house builder in the North East.

As (Senior) Quantity Surveyor, you would be responsible for managing the commercial aspects of (typically) three new build developments. This includes managing the costs for each site and ensuring that targets are met by managing and controlling the budgets and valuations.

This role would be ideally suited to someone with a background in both contracting and residential.

Main duties will include:

* To produce draft budgets and site start budgets for each site allocated to the Quantity Surveyor.

* Producing quarterly valuations and complete material ‘cost to complete’ exercises for each site the Quantity Surveyor is responsible for.

* To produce sub-contract payments and final accounts, ensuring that the sub-contractor has signed these off.

* Produce sub-contract orders, ensuring they are authorised by the authorised representative, together with all necessary documentation to comply with Commercial Policy.

* Completing on-site measurements and assess payments to contractors.

* Attend and contribute to various meetings, such as pre-order meetings, quarterly valuation meetings and project review meetings with senior management, construction team as well as external contractors.

* Manage all sub-contract orders on site, meeting sub-contractors as and when required.

* Maintain trade specifications.

* Price customer extras and liaise with sales department as necessary.

* Manage Professional Fees Budget.

* Assist with material buying when required.

* Assist the Estimator and / or Commercial Manager with take-off’s for land appraisals when required

To be considered, applicants must:

* Relevant industry requirements, RICS, Quantity Surveying Degree or HND

* Ideally have worked for a house builder

Please call Michael Dufferwiel at Elvet Recruitment to discuss in more detail