Quantity Surveyor

Bloor Homes; Exeter; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company Car

Group Staff Discount at Triumph Motorb

Competitive discount on our homes

Job summary

Bloor Homes is recruiting an experienced Surveyor to join our Exeter Regional Office. You will oversee costs across developments, manage tender information, and ensure tight budget controls on-site to support delivering quality homes at affordable prices.

You will regularly liaise with sub-contractors, manage payments, and contribute to cost-value reconciliation and weekly/monthly reporting. This role requires a proactive, detail-focused professional with strong negotiation and time-management

Qualifications

• Must hold a Full UK Driving Licence.
• A degree in Quantity Surveying.
• Experience of building construction in a quantity surveying or project managing role.
• Good negotiating skills with excellent time management skills.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the preparation of subcontract/supplier enquiry lists for approval.
• Prepare full enquiry packs and collate tender information, ensuring compliant tender packs are issued and bids received.
• Prepare tender comparison sheets and negotiate with subcontractors to ensure specification compliance and best practice.
• Prepare detailed breakdowns of build costs including infrastructure costings and include within NSSA (New Site Start Appraisal).
• Ensure new sub-contractors are on the SMAS database and certification is up to date.
• Carry out drawing take-offs and produce labour-only rates with the Senior Surveyor and Commercial Manager.
• Update SWMP plan and Carriers Matrix and issue to site as necessary.
• Analyse sub-contractor payment applications and prepare interim payments in line with procedures.
• Issue variation instructions and contra charges as appropriate.
• Price non-standard client extras and liaise with Commercial Manager to ensure costings are correct.
• Update Cost of Sales in Viability Manager for client extras after re-budgets and valuations.
• Conduct monthly progress checklists and valuations including CVR and CTC.

Skills

Full UK Driving Licence

Negotiation skills

Time management

Ability to meet tight deadlines

Education

Degree in Quantity Surveying

Job description

Becoming a Surveyor at Bloor Homes will give you the opportunity to be part of something special, working for a large, family-run company that takes pride in a job well done. Using your previous house building QS experience, you will undertake a diverse range of tasks including collating tender information, preparing cost breakdowns, managing payment and drafting budget estimate summaries. No two days will be the same.

We are recruiting for an experienced Surveyor to join our Exeter Regional Office. Our Surveyor’s play a vital role within with our ambitious yet friendly, family-owned company. At Bloor Homes you’ll be given the autonomy to oversee the full spectrum of costs on a development because just like us, we know you bring an uncompromising commitment to excellence to all that you do. Our ability to deliver quality homes at an affordable price is closely linked to tight budget controls on-site, making your role central to the success of the business and the reputation of the brand.

MAIN DUTIES

• Assisting in the preparation of the sub-contract/supplier enquiry lists for approval.
• Preparing full enquiry packs and collating all tender information, ensuring fully compliant tender packs are issued, return tenders are analysed and compliant bids received.
• Preparing tender comparison sheets, including making recommendations for placing subcontract orders and negotiation with sub-contractors to ensure full compliance with specification and best practice.
• Preparing detailed breakdowns of build costs including infrastructure costings and include within New Site Start Appraisal (NSSA).
• Ensuring new sub-contractors are on the SMAS database and that the certification is up to date.
• Carrying out drawing take-offs and producing labour only rates in liaison with the Senior Surveyor, Commercial Manager and Construction Department, including maintaining the databases and distributing information
• Updating/producing SWMP plan and Carriers Matrix, including updating Licence Numbers and expiry dates and issue to site as necessary
• Ensuring sub-contractor weekly and monthly applications for payment are analysed, checked and interim payments are prepared for approval in line with Authorisation Levels and Commercial Procedures, including keeping payment record sheets up to date, highlighting any claims for additional works outside of the budget estimate summary and settling all final accounts expediently after works are complete.
• Issuing variation instructions and contra charges as appropriate.
• Pricing non-standard client extras as required and liaising with the Commercial Manager and Construction Department to ensure costings are correct.
• Updating Cost of Sales in Viability Manager for client extras, after re-budgets and valuations.
• Carrying out monthly progress checklists for all sites and inputting on to the valuation system including MOS.
• Carrying out monthly valuation including production of Cost Value Reconciliation (CVR) and Cost to Complete Sheet (CTC) including attending Valuation Meeting.
• Liaising with the Housing Association including producing invoices and H & S pack as required and attend all necessary site meetings.
• Liaising with the Design & Technical Department over specification for Code for Sustainable Homes and producing schedules and back up information as required.
• Regularly attending sites, a minimum of twice a month, to provide assistance and support to site staff, including meetings with sub-contractors
• Assisting in the production of the Group Rebate Form.
• Attending meetings that may be necessary in the performance of your duties.
• Complying with and upholding company policies and procedures.
• Undertaking any additional tasks as may reasonably be required from time to time.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS / ATTRIBUTES

• Must hold a Full UK Driving Licence.
• A degree in Quantity Surveying.
• Experience of building construction in a quantity surveying or project managing role.
• Good negotiating skills with excellent time management skills.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines.

COMPANY BENEFITS

• Company Car.
• Group Staff Discount at Triumph Motorcycles ltd.
• Competitive discount on our homes (dependent upon the property and location).