Quantity Surveyor

www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk - Jobboard; Devon and Torbay; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A construction firm in the UK seeks a Quantity Surveyor for a 6-month contract in Exmouth. The successful candidate will manage commercial responsibilities for planned and reactive projects, ensuring profitability. Ideal applicants will have experience in maintenance contracting and strong data analysis skills. The role offers various benefits, including a profit share scheme and training opportunities.

Benefits

Profit share scheme

Private mileage scheme

Enhanced employer pension contribution

Annual pay reviews

Life, medical, and permanent health insurance

Annual leave flexibility

Access to health and wellbeing support

Enhanced maternity/paternity pay

Qualifications

• Proven ability to minimize cost and maximize value, ideally in maintenance contracting.
• Experience with data analysis using IT systems.
• Experience working on Schedule of Rates contracts is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Take commercial accountability for reactive maintenance works.
• Prepare valuations and manage work in progress.
• Develop collaborative relationships with operational colleagues.

Skills

Cost minimization

Data analysis

Relationship management

Attention to detail

Tools

Excel

Job description

Our Exmouth Response Maintenance Business is looking for a Quantity Surveyor to join its small, friendly commercial team on a 6-month Fixed-term contract.

We’d love to hear from you if you are a Quantity Surveyor who is keen to take full commercial accountability for delivering our planned and larger projects, on budget and to the specified margins.

The contract with our social housing client in East Devon is unique; we deliver all our services direct to the client. That’s Response/ Voids, Planned Maintenance and Compliance works, for 4,000 properties in and around Exmouth, with a total contract value worth £13m per year.

It’s a fast-paced, collaborative environment and you’ll gain exposure to a wide-ranging workload with lots of client contact.

Benefits:


Be part of the company profit share scheme (14% of base salary achieved last year)
Private mileage scheme and a fuel card
Prepare for your future with an enhanced employer pension contribution of up to 7% OR a savings scheme.
Annual pay reviews
Life, Medical and Permanent Health Insurance
Annual leave. Buy up to 5 days or sell up to 3 days per year.
Access to the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity to support your health and wellbeing, including free legal and financial advice.
Enhanced maternity/ paternity pay.
Training and development opportunities
Trade discounts from our preferred suppliers for you and your friends and family, and Specsavers vouchers


The Quantity Surveyor role:

You will actively work as part of the commercial team, supporting the Managing Surveyor with the commercial and technical reporting, to ultimately impact the unit’s overall profitability and commercial success.

Specific tasks will include:


Taking commercial accountability for the delivery of the reactive maintenance works at or above agreed profit performance
Working with SORs, you will analyse and review all payments/costs to source solutions that will enable you to have the most cost-effective contract, whilst maintaining the client relationship and demonstrating value for money.
Preparing valuations and managing work in progress (WIP) to closely monitor contract performance, striving for better solutions and outcomes and really steering the commercial performance
Managing and analysing the financial and technical aspects of the contract including procurement, invoicing, and payments to minimise costs, maximise value and cash flow, and meet profit and debtor day targets.
Developing and maintaining positive and collaborative relationships with your operational colleagues, the customers/clients, subcontractors, and suppliers


What will you bring as a Quantity Surveyor?


A proven ability to minimise cost and maximise value, profit, and cash flow effectively, ideally from within a maintenance contracting environment, working with social housing clients or similar
The ability to process high volumes of data analysis, with the use of IT systems, and Excel- you will describe yourself as thorough, detailed and accurate.
Experience of working with direct labour and subcontract procurement
Experience of working on Schedule of Rates type of contracts is desirable, with the ability to price minor works from first principles.


About Ian Williams Ltd:

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