Senior Quantity Surveyor

Job Description

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Quantity Surveyor (Senior Commercial Manager) with Residential and / or Hotel and leisure experience to work on a major project in the northern home counties. This will be working in the pre construction phase through to project delivery on site.

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Key responsibilities:

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• Procurement of the project in accordance with approved strategy, ensuring that orders are fully scoped, bought at best value and are correctly contracted in accordance with limits of authority.
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• Liaising and communicating with the Client team in accordance with the
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• contract. Managing supply chain relationships to ensure a consistent and
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• coordinated approach to procurement.
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• Robust implementation and management of commercial, legal, insurance and risk controls of the Project.
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• Accurate commercial reporting and contract administration.
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• This includes (but is not limited to) interim payments, management of change
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• accounts, cashflows, final accounting and contract administration.
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• You will ensure that the project is delivered in a safe, timely, efficient and
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• sustainable manner, whilst achieving project targets, meeting client expectations and enhancing the reputation of the business.
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Essential Credentials:

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• Maintain CSCS card for the role
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• Professional Construction Qualifications relevant to the role or qualified by appropriate level of experience (as noted below)
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• Have a related Chartership such as MRICS or MCIOB
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Skills, Knowledge, Experience, Behaviours

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Essential Skills

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• Written and verbal communication to influence and build relationships
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• Ability to influence and lead teams
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• Demonstrates skills in the avoidance and defence of claims
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• Tendering subcontract works packages of medium to high value
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• Able to prepare subcontract documentation ready for engrossment by external parties
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• Advanced word-processing, Excel spreadsheet packages and cost management software
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• Ability to read drawings and construction design information
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• Valuing interim applications
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• Measurement and valuation techniques
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• Management of claims including assessment of entitlement for prolongation, loss and Expense including inflation
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Essential Knowledge

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• Knowledge of current construction laws, legislations, and regulations, standards and procedures
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• Commercial and financial understanding in the above context – ability to contribute to value engineering as part of the design process
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• Understand and apply commercial & financial procedures and reporting systems
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• Maintains detailed prelim forecasts and actual costs and intervenes were negative trends identified
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• Management of bonds, PCGs, warranty insurances and associated risks
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• Management of cost, value and profit
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• Reports accurately to the monthly forecast final account
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• Manages cash flow to the benefit of the project and business
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• Good understanding of building technology / construction
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• methods
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• Full knowledge and understanding of JCT, NEC, Construction Management and Management Contracting Contracts
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• Experience in Commercial office projects managing large MEP packages and taking projects through to CAT B finish.
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Essential Experience

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• Pre-construction experience
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• Background with a main contractor on projects above £30m in value
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• Proven track record of delivering successful construction projects safely
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• Experience of managing field construction activities on major/complex projects
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• Demonstratable experience in construction, including a sound knowledge of Construction methodology, process and sequence
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• Procurement of work packages in line with the Project Procurement Strategy
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• Conversion of the project from preconstruction to construction
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• Communicating and liaising with the Client team in accordance with the contract
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• Production of Tender Recommendation Reports and Contract Sum Analysis
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• Preparation of Subcontracts for execution in line with limits of authority
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• Procures robust packages with an understanding of package interfaces
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• Manages the change process in accordance with the contract
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• Prepares bid documentation to ensure a fully defined tender
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Essential Behaviours

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• Flexibility and openness of approach and willingness to work as a team player
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• Must lead in the Incident and Injury Free (IIF) vision, both personal and organisational, to create an existence absent of incident and injury
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• Supports the project manager to manage project risk and opportunities
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• Levelling existing knowledge to continuously improve processes to achieve efficiency.
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• Attention to detail, ability to flex to meet business plans and drive to meet key dates.
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• Ability to join up a wide range of complex issues and understand how they relate to each other.
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• Uncompromising discipline and rigorous approach to follow the process and close projects out.
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• Collaborates across the organisation and external teams. Communicates the strategy and maximises outcomes for all parties.
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• Drives a culture of safety and quality and embeds best practice to set the standard in the organisation and the industry.
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We will provide:

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• Car allowance
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• Up to 10% employer pension contribution
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• Private medical health benefit (Family cover available)
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• Life assurance
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• 25 days annual leave with the option to buy or sell additional days
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• 3 days wellbeing leave in addition to annual leave
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• Health and wellbeing support and initiatives
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• 24/7 confidential Employee Assistance Programme including direct access to Talking Therapies and Coaching services
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• Discounted gym membership to over 2,500 gym’s nationwide
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• Industry leading parental leave
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