Quantity Surveyor Team Valley, Gateshead

Bellway plc; Gateshead; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Car allowance

Bonus

Pension

Holiday allowance

Discounts portal

ShareSave

Cycle to work

Life assurance

Holiday purchase

Earn & Learn

Job summary

Bellway plc, one of the UK's largest house builders, is recruiting a Quantity Surveyor for its North East Division in Gateshead. The role focuses on managing site budgets, valuations, and payments to sub-contractors, reporting to the Commercial Manager.

You will work closely with the construction team, maintain cost controls, prepare budgets, and contribute to project reviews. DBS and pre-employment checks apply.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Quantity Surveyor or Surveyor with a residential house builder.
• Qualification in HND/HNC Building Studies.
• CSCS card desirable (or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Produce draft budgets and site start budgets for each site.
• Produce quarterly valuations and cost-to-complete exercises for each site.
• Produce sub-contract payments and final accounts, ensuring sub-contractors sign off.
• Produce sub-contract orders with required documentation.
• Complete on-site measurements and assess payments to contractors.
• Attend and contribute to meetings with senior management, construction team and external contractors.
• Manage all sub-contract orders on site.
• Maintain trade specifications.
• Price customer extras and liaise with sales.
• Manage Professional Fees Budget.
• Assist with material buying when required.

Skills

Communication

Negotiation

Listening

Teamwork

Attention to detail

IT literate

Administration

Deadline driven

Education

HND/HNC Building Studies

GCSE English and Maths

CSCS card desirable

Job description

At Bellway we recognise that people are the key to our success, and we are committed to building an inclusive culture that values and respects difference combined with creating a safe and inclusive working environment for all colleagues. This means we are positive about making adjustments as well as providing flexible working and we would be happy to talk to you about how this could work for you.

There is an exciting opportunity to join Bellway, one of the UK’s largest house builders. Our North East Division, located in Team Valley, Gateshead are looking to recruit a Quantity Surveyor to join the Division’s Commercial department.

The Role

This role of Quantity Surveyor is responsible for managing the commercial aspects of each development. This includes managing the costs for each site and ensuring that targets are met by managing and controlling the budgets and valuations.

The Quantity Surveyor reports to the Commercial Manager.

Principal accountabilities of the role include:

• Produce draft budgets and site start budgets for each site allocated to the Quantity Surveyor.
• Produce quarterly valuations and complete material ‘cost to complete’ exercises for each site the Quantity Surveyor is responsible for.
• Produce sub-contract payments and final accounts, ensuring that the sub-contractor has signed these off.
• Produce sub-contract orders, ensuring they are authorised by the authorised representative, together with all necessary documentation to comply with Group Commercial Policy.
• Complete on-site measurements and assess payments to contractors.
• Attend and contribute to various meetings, such as pre-order meetings, quarterly valuation meetings and project review meetings with senior management, construction team as well as external contractors.
• Manage all sub-contract orders on site, meeting sub-contractors as and when required.
• Maintain trade specifications.
• Price customer extras and liaise with sales department as necessary.
• Manage Professional Fees Budget.
• Assist with material buying when required.
• Assist the Estimator and / or Commercial Manager with take-off’s for land appraisals when required

Experience, Qualifications and Skills

• Experience of working as a Quantity Surveyor or Surveyor with a residential house builder.

Qualifications and Training

• HND/HNC Building Studies
• GCSE Grade C/4+ or equivalent in English and Maths
• Current CSCS card or equivalent is desirable

Skills and Aptitude

• Strong communication and listening skills, with good negotiation skills
• Highly motivated to deliver quality developments
• Ability to work on own as well as part of a team
• Excellent attention to detail and demonstrates ability to meet deadlines
• IT literate and the ability to adapt to new systems
• Good administration skills
• Committed to diversity and inclusion

The Role and Working Conditions

• Willing to be flexible in respect to day to day duties and hours worked
• Office based role, with travel within the Divisional area
• Ability to travel to development sites as and when required
• Please note this role is subject to a basic DBS and financial pre-employment checks

In return we can offer you:

• Competitive salary
• Competitive car allowance
• Optional salary sacrifice car scheme
• Competitive annual bonus
• Contributory pension scheme
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
• Access to discounts and benefits portal
• ShareSave Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Life assurance
• Holiday Purchase Scheme
• Earn and Learn Opportunities

We reserve the right to close this vacancy if a large volume of applications are received.