Associate Director | Quantity Surveying | Cambridge, UK

TSA Riley; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy in Cambridge seeks an Associate Director in Quantity Surveying to oversee complex projects. The role involves managing a team, ensuring client objectives are met, and providing cost consulting services. Hybrid working is standard, offering flexibility between office and home.

Benefits

Industry-leading benefits

Diverse growth opportunities

Award-winning learning programs

Qualifications

• Experience in pre and post contract duties on complex construction projects.
• Ability to manage and mentor junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Quantity Surveyors and Project Managers.
• Manage profit and loss for client accounts.
• Prepare financial reports and oversee junior staff.

Skills

Cost Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Leadership

Education

Relevant degree or masters in quantity surveying

Full membership of RICS

Job description

Associate Director | Quantity Surveying | Cambridge, UK

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We have a fantastic opportunity to join our cost management team at Associate Director level in our Cambridge Office.

TSA Riley is a global project consultancy of 1,000 experts with experience across all stages of the project lifecycle. Our mission is to help our clients and communities realise the transformative power of their built assets. At TSA Riley, a road is more than asphalt, it’s how we get home to our families. A school provides more than an education, it’s where we set the direction for our future.

We help our clients enhance public and private property, buildings and infrastructure for our collective future. Our commitment to creating positive impact drives our mission to create spaces and places where people connect, learn, live, heal, protect, shop, work, and travel.

TSA Riley has offices in the United Kingdom & Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia. Across our locations we aim to inspire, support and empower our people to grow at a pace that surprises them.

Our industry-leading benefits, diverse growth opportunities, engaging social activities, award-winning learning and development programmes and comprehensive Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiatives are designed to support you at every stage of your career journey.

Please visit us at tsariley.com to learn more about our story.

About The Role

We are looking for a chartered Quantity Surveyor who is capable of operating at Associate Director level and is capable of performing a full range of pre and post contract duties on complex construction projects in the immediate Cambridgeshire area.

TSA Riley are one of the largest and most established consultancies operating in the Cambridgeshire market. We have developed a fantastic client base which boasts some of the most exciting projects in the region. Recent projects include working with several of the University colleges in the area on some of the finest historic buildings in the country.

To accompany our enviable portfolio of projects in the area, the TSA Riley business is a growing, ambitious and innovative construction consultancy with lots of career development opportunities for likeminded candidates.

Hybrid working is standard practice to all our employees. You will be afforded to freedom to carry out your role as required between the Cambridge office, site(s) and home.

If TSA Riley sounds like the type of environment where you could fulfil your potential, then we would love to hear from you in relation to this role.

Key tasks and responsibilities of the Associate Director role include:

• Working in a leadership role alongside a team of Quantity Surveyors and Project Managers reporting directly into the Executive Director whilst providing a cost consulting role our clients.
• Ensure that our clients achieve their stated objectives through close teamwork, proactive cost control and the provision of contractual advice.
• Managing clients and taking an active role in the profit and loss management for individual client accounts.
• Attend and/or chair meetings with client.
• Prepare financial reports and oversee those of junior staff within the business.
• Lead on the communication of project statuses with the client.
• Provide advice on contractors, specialists, procurement routes, cost and programme solutions.
• Provide advice on suitability and preparation of contract documents.
• Prepare management reports.
• Monitor performance milestones and deliverables.
• Administer cost/variation procedures.
• Carry out full post contract surveying duties including establishing the effect of variations, settlement of accounts and disputes.
• Provide day-to-day cost management of projects from estimate preparation and cost planning through to final account settlements.
• Take an active role in managing, mentoring and supporting the development of junior staff within the Cambridge office.
• Build strong relationships and seek to identify business opportunities with existing and new clients in the local market.
  
  

Desired qualifications and experience:

• A relevant degree or masters qualification in quantity surveyor or similar equivalent subject
• Full membership of a relevant professional body such as the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is desired.
• Prior experience of working on historic and/or listed buildings is desirable.
• The ability to autonomously carry out a full range of pre and post contract duties from conception through to final accounting.
• Strong cost planning skills and the ability to review technical drawings and fully grasp the complexities of what may not be shown on a drawing but needs to be considered for work being carried out on historic buildings.
• Strong client facing and stakeholder engagement skills are essential and demonstrable experience of acting in the lead role to the client, providing traditional cost management services.
• Familiar with common forms of contract such as JCT and NEC.
  
  

Who we are:

TSA Riley has a 130-year heritage dating back to 1890 when Henry Riley Esq first established a quantity surveying practice in London. In Asia Pacific we trace our roots back to the 1980s through the merging of several respected, small project management and advisory firms.

Now, in the 21st century, we’re defining and pioneering a new way of helping our clients drive greater value and impact from their built assets. Plan. Procure. Deliver. Optimise. Decarbonise. We call this project consulting.

We provide expert strategic, commercial and operations advice; project and cost management; carbon advice; and dispute resolution. This uniquely broad range of services - across the project lifecycle - means we understand the interdependencies at every stage. We combine this with hands-on experience and personalised service to drive greater value, impact and certainty for our clients’ projects.

What Makes Us Different

• Partnerships for positive impact: Standing side-by-side with our clients, we shape our collective future.
• Growth - together: Our strength lies not only in our global reach, wide range of sectors and services but also in how grow and develop our people.
• Connected intelligence: We are a business of 1,000 connected and collaborative project consultants. Our leaders are diverse and experienced and we challenge and learn from each other to deliver positive outcomes.
• Integrity in everything: We do the right thing by each other, our clients and our communities.
• And a lot of fun along the way: We celebrate success, enjoy the journey and cherish our culture of camaraderie. Together, we embrace our differences and celebrate the things that make each of us authentically unique.
  
  

TSA Riley is an Equal Opportunity Employer:

We welcome applications from candidates who are interested in working with us but are not able to commit to a full-time role and/or would require forms of flexible working. Additionally, we provide hybrid working as standard practice.

We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Project Management

• Industries

  Business Consulting and Services

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