Quantity Surveyor - Planned Maintenance

Howells Solutions Limited; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading social housing contractor is looking for an experienced Quantity Surveyor to join their team in Tottenham. This full-time position involves delivering planned maintenance and retrofit projects. Ideal candidates will have experience in social housing refurbishment, strong commercial awareness, and excellent client relationship skills. You will control costs, manage subcontractors, and ensure timely cash flow management. This role offers a competitive salary of £50-65k with benefits including flexibility to work from home one day a week.

Qualifications

• Experience with quantity surveying in a main contractor environment.
• Track record of delivering contracts on time and within budget.
• Contractual awareness and knowledge of supply chain management.

Responsibilities

• Control all expenditure.
• Reconcile cost/value reports & profit forecasts.
• Manage day to day cost control & monitoring.
• Develop professional relationships with clients.

Skills

Commercial awareness

Negotiating skills

Communication skills

Presentation skills

Education

Degree or other technical qualification

Job description

Overview

Quantity Surveyor - Social Housing - Planned Maintenance

Location: Tottenham - Covering patches in London/South East

Full-Time, Permanent position

Salary: £50-65k+ package

1 day a week from home

We are working with a leading Social Housing contractor to recruit an experienced and successful Quantity Surveyor to join their team in Tottenham to deliver Planned Maintenance and Retrofit on social housing properties.

We are looking for a proven commercial professional ideally with experience in social housing refurbishment programmes, ideally with knowledge of internal and external planned maintenance programmes with a comprehensive commercial understanding of subcontractor procurement and cost management, the CVR process as well as excellent client relationship skills.

Responsibilities

• Control all expenditure
• Reconcile cost/value reports & profit forecasts
• On-boarding of Sub contractors/suppliers
• Ensuring value for money & financial assessments
• Manage day to day cost control & monitoring & reporting
• Process Sub contractor requests for payment via application & invoice
• Attend project & company related meetings
• Ensure timely cash flow management
• Maintain & develop professional relationships with clients & customers

Essential Quantity Surveyor Experience

• Degree or other technical qualification
• Quantity Surveying experience with a main contractor
• Strong commercial awareness
• Proven track record delivering contracts on time and within budget
• Contractual awareness
• Negotiating, communication & presentation skills
• Knowledge of Supply Chain management
• RICS / CIOB qualification - Preferred

Salary and Benefits

You will be working for a modern, forward-thinking business; that believes the strengths, skills, and personalities of its people are the key to the group\'s success. You will be part of an ambitious, and successful business who offer the opportunity to develop and grow with the company.

If you are interested, please apply online now, or give Meg a call on (phone number removed) for more information