Quantity Surveyor

Guinness Partnership; Chadderton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading housing provider in Chadderton is seeking an experienced Quantity Surveyor to oversee high-quality and cost-effective investment projects. You will ensure financial efficiency, monitor expenditures, and collaborate with various teams to ensure compliance with contracts. The ideal candidate will have a strong commercial background in a regulated environment, excellent collaboration skills, and a commitment to customer service. This role offers competitive benefits including a pension scheme and performance pay.

Benefits

27 days holiday plus bank holidays

Competitive Pension Scheme

Performance Pay

Life Assurance

Health Plan Options

Free eye test vouchers

Professional subscription support

Travel season ticket loan

Car lease scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in quantity surveying within asset maintenance teams.
• Strong commercial track record in a multi-stakeholder environment.
• Proven experience with financial monitoring and control.
• Effective planning and oversight of contractors.

Responsibilities

• Monitor expenditure including cash flow and financial statements.
• Ensure contractual compliance across investment programmes.
• Collaborate with Project Delivery team and external partners.
• Present interim and final accounts as per good practice.

Skills

Quantity surveying experience

Customer service

Cost and commercial management

Programme delivery

Negotiating costs and contracts

Building construction knowledge

Health and Safety legislation knowledge

Planning and organisational skills

IT skills (Excel)

Job description

The Guinness Partnership is one of the leading providers of affordable housing in England. We build and manage homes and provide housing services for nearly 160,000 residents nationwide. Our vision is to deliver great service, provide great homes, to be a great business and to be a great place to work. Because everything we do is about our residents, our communities and our people, any profit we make is re‑invested in new and existing homes and improving services.

The Guinness Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all colleagues, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Job Description

The Guinness Partnership is seeking an experienced Quantity Surveyor to play a pivotal role in delivering high‑quality, cost‑effective planned investment projects.

As part of our Investment Planning and Commercial Team you will ensure financial efficiency and contractual compliance across investment programmes delivering refurbishment works to our existing homes.

You will be covering Greater Manchester and the wider North‑West, along with Yorkshire and the Home Counties areas. Some travel will be required as part of this role as you support delivery programmes across these areas.

The successful Quantity Surveyor will work collaboratively with the Project Delivery team and external partners to ensure commercial and financial delivery is compliant with contracts, specifications, and a cost model.

The role is required to monitor expenditure, including cash flow forecasts, financial statements, calculation of monthly payments and accruals, presentation of interim and final accounts and associated commercial performance in accordance with good practice and relevant policies and procedures.

What we are looking for

We are a resident‑focused organisation, so we know that how we do things is just as important as what we do. You'll not only be an experienced Quantity Surveyor, but you'll also have excellent collaboration skills and a willingness to go the extra mile to get the job done.

We are looking for someone with a strong commercial track record developed within a multi‑stakeholder and highly regulated environment, you'll also be able to demonstrate :

• Quantity surveying experience within a similar organisation and asset maintenance teams.
• Proven experience of providing excellent customer service.
• Experience of cost and commercial management, across various contracts using a schedule of rates and target cost model.
• Experience of programme delivery, financial monitoring and control.
• Experience of developing, preparing and issuing performance reports.Experience and effectiveness in negotiating costs and contract terms with contractors.
• Good knowledge of building construction and repair techniques and related current legislation and regulations.
• Knowledge of the CDM regulations and other Health and Safety Legislation.
• Effective planning and organisational skills.
• Experience of overseeing contractors delivering multi‑discipline projects and ensuring Health & Safety requirements are followed.
• Excellent IT skills and good working knowledge of Microsoft Office particularly Excel, and housing and property management systems.

To find out more about the key responsibilities of the role and to ensure you meet the full essential criteria, please review the role profile. Please apply with your CV and a covering letter, detailing how you meet the essential criteria.

Benefits

Holidays: 27 days holiday a year, plus bank holidays. We will also give you the opportunity to buy up to an additional 5 days. You will also receive additional holiday in line with your length of service (1 extra day per 5 years service, capped at 4 days).

• Competitive Pension Scheme: We will help you save for your retirement through our workplace pension scheme. Guinness match your contribution up to 9%. To help you get the most out of your pension contributions, we operate a salary sacrifice arrangement that means you will pay less National Insurance contributions.
• Benefits Portal: We have a lifestyle benefits scheme, pulling together a range of special offers and great deals. You can make some great savings on everyday shopping from fashion and electronics to travel, leisure and days out and weekly supermarket shopping.
• Performance Pay: Annual Performance Score bonus subject to eligibility.
• Life Assurance: For peace of mind Guinness provides three times salary life cover in the event of your death.
• Health Plan Options: There are a couple of health care schemes available depending on the post grade.
• VDU / DSE: Free eye test vouchers every 2 years with £55 contribution to glasses if required for VDU work.
• Access to the Finance wellbeing portal.
• Professional subscription: annual payment.
• Travel season ticket loan.
• Car lease scheme.

Quantity Surveyor • Chadderton, England, GB