Quantity Surveyor

Berkeley Group; Wallingford; Presencial; GBP 45.000 - 70.000; Tempo integral

Benefícios oferecidos por esta vaga

25 days annual leave

Private medical insurance

Discount platform access

Berkeley Foundation volunteer day

Private pension plan

Group life assurance

Resumo da vaga

Berkeley Group develops high-quality homes and neighbourhoods, including the Winterbrook Meadows project in Wallingford. The Quantity Surveyor will join the Commercial team on a permanent basis to manage costs, procurement, and cost reporting across multi-phase development, coordinating with technical, design and project teams to deliver value within budget.

Our role focuses on preparing scope, tendering, subcontract administration and cost forecasting, while supporting project managers on

Qualificações

• Ideally a QS or construction degree with industry experience.
• Membership of CIOB or RICS preferred.

Responsabilidades

• Prepare reports as required for the project.
• Identify risks and opportunities to protect cost plans.
• Understand approved budget and package breakdowns.
• Liaise with technical team and design consultants to align with budgets.
• Monitor changes to track cost status.
• Coordinate with project team including construction, technical, sales and finance.
• Ensure procurement of subcontract elements aligns with requirements and sustainability goals.
• Prepare scope of works and trade packages.
• Prepare tender lists and conduct tendering for subcontract packages.
• Record minutes of Subcontract Post-Tender and Pre-Order meetings.
• Prepare subcontract documentation and issue notices.
• Process subcontractor payments and issue revised drawings as needed.
• Forecast design variation values and agree variations with subcontractors.
• Support Project Manager with financial implications of site progress decisions.
• Prepare and approve site instructions and variation reports.
• Agree final accounts with subcontractors.
• Update monthly cost reports and cost forecasting with various stakeholders.
• Provide cost data to estimating department for future contracts.
• Attend Design Team and subcontractor progress meetings.
• Value customer change variations.

Conhecimentos

Quantity Surveying degree

Construction experience

Professional body membership

Formação

Quantity Surveying degree

Construction degree

Descrição da vaga

Quantity Surveyor

Department: Commercial

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Wallingford, Oxfordshire

Description

Berkeley Group builds homes and neighbourhoods across London, Birmingham and the South of England. We revive underused land, creating welcoming, sustainable and nature-rich places where communities thrive and where people of all ages and backgrounds enjoy a great quality of life.

We specialise in long-term brownfield regeneration, focusing on challenging and complex sites that are beyond the scope of conventional homebuilders. We are highly collaborative, working with councils and communities to create a shared vision and to unlock a mix of social, environmental, economic and commercial value that benefits all our stakeholders.

Our passion for quality and design underpins everything we do. All Berkeley homes are created with care, expertise and relentless attention to detail.

What you'll be doing

We are seeking a Quantity Surveyor to join the project team at Winterbrook Meadows, Wallingford. This is a multi-phase development comprises a collection of high-quality new-build homes in Wallingford, including 3–4 bedroom houses and contemporary 1–2 bedroom apartments, delivered within a thoughtfully planned community.

• Preparation of reports as required.
• Identifying risks and opportunities.
• Understanding the approved Budget and package breakdowns.
• Liaising with the technical team and design consultants so as to ensure design concepts and proposals are developed in line with the approved budgets and procurement tracker.
• Monitoring changes so as to continuously identify the status of costs.
• Liaising with all members of the project team, including but not limited to construction, technical, sales, finance, customer service and estate management colleagues.
• Ensure procurement of required subcontract elements of the development are completed in accordance with the company requirements and sustainability objectives.
• Preparing scope of works and trade packages.
• Preparing selected tender list for approval.
• Tendering required subcontract packages from preparation of tender list through to producing a tender recommendation.
• Holding and taking minutes of Subcontract Post-Tender and Pre-Order Meetings.
• Preparing subcontract documentation.
• Raising subcontractor payments and ensuring associated notices and documentation are issued in a timely manner.
• Sending agreed number of copies of all Contract Drawings and any revised drawings as issued to subcontractors.
• Forecasting value of design variations.
• Agreeing variations with subcontractor.
• Assisting Project Manager with financial implications of site progress decisions
• Preparing and approving site instructions.
• Producing subcontractor instruction/variation reports.
• Agreeing final account with subcontractors.
• Fully completing or imputing as required into monthly cost reports for approval.
• Monitor with Project Manager preliminary expenditure / forecasts on a weekly / monthly basis for the purpose of preparing cost reports
• Monitor with Technical Manager Fee expenditure / forecasts on a weekly / monthly basis for the purpose of preparing cost reports
• Monitor with the Buying Department material / Purchase Ledger expenditure / forecasts on a weekly / monthly basis for the purpose of preparing cost reports
• Provide cost data as required to estimating department to assist in the pricing of future contracts / phases
• Attending Design Team Meetings as required.
• Attending subcontractor progress meetings as required.
• Valuing customer change variations.

What you'll bring

Technical Competencies:

• Ideally Quantity Surveying or Construction degree level educated with industry experience.
• Preferably membership of a professional body (CIOB, RICS).

Person Specification:

• Proactive, self-driven, results-oriented with a positive outlook.
• Keen to deliver exceptional customer service.
• An effective leader, motivator and mentor.
• Flexible and reliable.
• Credible, and comfortable in dealing with a wide variety of stakeholders.
• Reliable, tolerant, and determined.
• Team player.
• Empathic communicator, able to see things from the other person's point of view.
• Well-presented.

Why join us?

• 25 days annual leave, increasing with service to 33 days.
• Health and wellbeing benefits including Private Medical Insurance.
• Lifestyle benefits including access to an online discount platform.
• Berkeley Foundation volunteer day.
• Private pension plan.
• Group life assurance.

The standard default full-time working hours in the office are 8am-5pm with core working hours 9am-4pm.

Internal applicants:

If you're an internal applicant, please ensure you've informed your line manager of your intention to apply for this position.