Senior Quantity Surveyor

Coalville

£52k - £80k plus company car

An excellent opportunity for Quantity Surveyors to gain invaluable experience and to progress their career with a highly reputable construction company, within a high standards and high rewards environment. We are looking for a senior quantity surveyor to join our office in Coalville.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Understand the implications of health and safety regulations to the Company sites.
• Understand the principles of safety on site and ensure that any concerns are addressed immediately with the support of the safety team and/ or Directors as appropriate.
• Prepare and/ or review tenders with estimators assisting with understanding the client's requirements and offering value engineering.
• Value completed work and ensure timely payment.
• Understand construction issues, offer advice on drawings and works and ensure project has all current drawings/ up to date information to work from.
• Identify commercial risks and provide appropriate solution/ response.
• Undertake costs analysis working with Company buyers.  Advise on procurement/ cost control.

Learn the Company procurement function and it’s interaction with site and impact on overall job cost and performance.

• Allocate work to sub-contractors including assistance with procurement when required Learn how to value completed work and arrange payments.
• Knowledge of various construction contracts.
• Assist with training and development of trainee Quantity Surveyors.

Requirements:

• Minimum 3 A-Levels at Grade B and above or equivalent BTEC.
• Minimum 3 years relevant and a background working with sub-contractors in residential groundworks.
• Proficient computer skills particularly in excel.
• General knowledge of contracts/ contractual terms.
• General reasoning ability and ability to take on new concepts quickly and efficiently.
• Good negotiation and management skills.
• Extremely high level of confidentiality and discretion.
• Understand the importance of establishing and maintaining positive client relationships.

Package:

• Company Car
• Discretional bonus scheme (this is based on Personal, Company and Regional Performance)
• Pension scheme
• 23 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with the length of service (we also offer the opportunity to buy extra annual leave)
• Group Life Insurance / Death in Service
• We have a Learning and Development department to support any professional development
• Progression opportunities (most of our Director’s started out as Trainee’s / QS’s)
• Employee Assistance Programme (employees get access to discounts, can get remote GP appointments ect)

If you are interested, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.