Quantity Surveyor

Quantity Surveyor

A five star house builder have a requirement for an experienced Quantity Surveyor to join their regional offices based in Lancashire.

The company deliver high quality homes across the North of England and the company pride themselves in their commitment to building quality, high specification homes

The Role

The company have steady growth plans and currently have an opportunity for a Quantity Surveyor.. Working as part of the Commercial team, you will ensure commerciality is at the forefront of all that we do. Responsibilities will include; project cost control, risk and opportunity management, procurement/subcontract administration, Viability production and budget production / forecasting.

Duties and responsibilities:

Tendering/Procurement:

• Responsible for multiple pre contract developments - preparing tender and procurement process for handover to QS at site start.
• Secure best rates/value through comprehensive tender lists ensuring a minimum of 3 sub-contractors per trade on each development
• Issue and detailed analysis of site tenders
• Work with commercial and production teams through procurement process to ensure communication of accurate and consistent information to deliver projects.
• Contribute towards monitoring and review of supply chain for the region.
• Gain approval of all sub-contractor tender lists prior to commencing tender process
• Contribute to pre-tender / operations meetings including those with sub-contractor attendance and provide commercial reports where requested

Land Bids/Viabilities/Budgets:

• Support the preparation of land bids/financial viabilities and detailed budgets for commercial management approval in line with business plan requirements and deadlines.
• Produce updates and revisions to viabilities in line with Land team / Management team requests
• Collaboratively ensure any updates are recorded and understood with key colleagues
• Understand the reasons behind financial changes on projects and take steps to incorporate into future projects.
• In conjunction with our land and technical teams ensure all design and planning is informed by accurate cost information and focuses on accuracy, efficiency and value improvement.
• Provide cost information in relation to project risk and opportunity
• Challenging proposed solutions and costings on a project by project basis to maximise land value and profitability whilst championing best practice.
• Contribute to pre-contract and pre-start meetings

Skills and Experience required

The successful Quantity Surveyor will ideally have previous experience working for a house builder on multiple housing developments. Key skills required include:

• Good IT skills, specifically MS Excel
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills and problem solving skills
• Experience of working proficiently with key software packages: COINS
• Experience of working with and managing sub-contractors

In return for you skills my client offer a competitive salary £45-50k (dependant on experience). Company car or car allowance, bonus, Company pension, healthcare and holidays. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing company where you will be offered career development.

If you are interested in joining a quality builder and would like to apply, please contact Deena at Fawkes & Reece for a confidential chat or apply via the link below.