Senior Quantity Surveyor

Salary: £72,000 – £96,000 per year

Quantity Surveyor

St Ives, Cambridgeshire

£72,000 – £96,000plus package

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Our client is a high profile residential developer based in Cambridgeshire. They are actively searching for an experienced Quantity Surveyor to join their commercial team. The company are looking for a candidate that can take commercial responsibility from preconstruction to handover of contemporary and desired new build homes.

ROLE:

This role of Quantity Surveyor is responsible for managing the commercial aspects of each development. This includes managing the costs for each site and ensuring that targets are met by managing and controlling the budgets and valuations.

• Produce draft budgets and site start budgets for each site allocated to the Quantity Surveyor.
• Produce quarterly valuations and complete material ‘cost to complete’ exercises for each site the Quantity Surveyor is responsible for.
• 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 Group Commercial Policy.
• Complete 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 Commercial Director with take-off’s for land appraisals when required.

CANDIDATE:

• Experience of working as a Quantity Surveyor or Surveyor with a residential house builder.

• HND/HNC Building Studies or above
• Current CSCS card or equivalent is desirable
• Highly motivated to deliver quality developments
• Ability to work on own as well as part of a team
• IT literate and the ability to adapt to new systems
• Good administration skills
• Committed to diversity and inclusion