Quantity Surveyor

The Guinness Partnership; Oldham; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading housing organisation in the UK is seeking an experienced Quantity Surveyor to oversee planned investment projects. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in ensuring financial efficiency and compliance in delivery programs across Greater Manchester and the North-West. Strong commercial track record, experience in customer service, and effective planning skills are essential for success in this role. Candidates should have good IT skills, particularly in Microsoft Excel, and experience working with contractors. The position requires travel across multiple locations.

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar organisation and asset maintenance teams.
• Strong commercial track record in a regulated environment.
• Experience overseeing contractors and ensuring safety compliance.

Responsibilities

• Monitor expenditure, including cash flow forecasts and financial statements.
• Collaborate with Project Delivery team to ensure contract compliance.
• Prepare and issue performance reports.

Skills

Quantity surveying experience

Excellent customer service

Cost and commercial management

Financial monitoring and control

Negotiating costs and contract terms

Planning and organisational skills

Excellent IT skills

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Housing and property management systems

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 if interim and final accounts and associated commercial performance in accordance with good practise and relevant policies and procedures.

What we are looking for

We are a resident-focusedاسة 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.