Quantity Surveyor

Salary: £26,000 per year

The Vacancy

Our client is one of the largest and most successful family-owned private construction, development and property services companies in the UK. With a vision is to become the most trusted partner in the built environment with an ambition to become a £2bn turnover business. 

Within the group, the Construction division is a UK-wide contractor specialising in maximising value for customers in the public and private sector, with an uncompromising focus on safety and quality. 

With a proven track record in all its core markets: commercial and mixed use developments, education and student accommodation, heritage, local authority frameworks, inner-city residential, senior living, industrial and research, the company are also experts in sustainability and creating a better tomorrow. 

As a result of the teams success, there is a fantastic opportunity for a Site Surveyor to join our team

Reporting into the Project Surveyor or Surveying Manager, your key responsibility is to take accountability for the Development and Implementation of all pre and post contract strategies, commercial functions and contract reporting on delegated projects and or works packages. 

Key Accountabilities will include: 

• Ensure the commercial function within the business unit effectively supports the operational teams in the implementation of H & S policies 

• Regularly reviews and provides guidance and challenge on strategic project and business unit objectives 

• Ensure the delivery of high quality commercial reports to the client on time. 

• Issuing of tender enquiries and package reconciliation 

• Regular reviews group CR policies and ensure project teams are updated 

• Agree external valuations/ cash flow to maximise project value 

• Agree and produce main and subcontract final accounts with Surveying Manager 

• Regular review of subcontract safety audits prior to payment authorisation 

• Ensure sub contract documentation is SHE Group policy compliant 

A bit about you: 

The ideal candidate will demonstrate the ability to form and develop relationships with client, PQS, design team and supply chain. 

You will also have strong commercial skills to maximise value recovery, cost control and cash management along with the ability to use / understand financial reports and final accounts 

The group, in its forth egeneration of family ownership, is one of the leading privately-owned construction, residential development, and property services businesses in the UK. Employing approximately 3,700 people and work with a wide range of public and private sector customers and partners. Everything the company do is guided by our purpose of working together to inspire better ways of creating the places, communities, and businesses of tomorrow. The business and its Board is committed to the long-term sustainability of the built environment and is working to eliminate carbon from its operations by 2025. 

To fulfil the Board ambition to be a truly inclusive employer and to reflect the richness of the communities in which it is our privilege to work, they are committed to doubling the proportion of women at all levels of the business, encouraging more people with disabilities to work in our sector and to become more ethnically diverse. In 2021 the company the award for Private Sector Leadership at the National Social Value Awards. 

For more infrmation about this great opportunity, and to apply, please contact Andy Hayton at Cotech