Quantity Surveyors & Assistant Quantity Surveyors

AR Resourcing; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home Working

Car / Car Allowance

Excellent Pension

Job summary

AR Resourcing is looking for Quantity Surveyors and Assistant Quantity Surveyors to deliver contracts across The Midlands and the South East from bases in Sheffield, Leeds, Sunderland or Newcastle. The role focuses on developing procurement strategies for national capital fit-out healthcare projects, managing risks and forecasts.

You will measure projects onsite, support site meetings and provide commercial advice to operations and engineering teams, with opportunities to pursue APC/MRICS.

Qualifications

• 2+ years experience for Assistant QS or 4-5+ years for QS.
• Good contract negotiation skills and experience of managing disputes.
• Understand measuring principles and communicate with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Deliver regional projects and meet commercial objectives.
• Produce financial and contractual forecasts and CVRs monthly.
• Produce final accounts and conduct contractor reviews.
• Measure projects onsite and support site meetings.
• Provide commercial advice to operations and engineering teams.

Skills

Contract negotiation

Dispute management

Measurement principles

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

Based frome ither Sheffield, Leeds, Sunderland or Newcastle

A Leading Regulated Industry Organisation is looking for Quantity Surveyors and Assistant Quantity Surveyors to deliver a number of contracts for them across The Midlands and the South East.

The main objective of the role is to develop and implement the procurement strategies for a portfolio of national capital fit out healthcare contracts.

Key duties will include:

• Manage the delivery of regional projects and commercial contract objectives.
• Achieve profitability and cost reduction targets across your project portfolio.
• Highlight exceptional variations, potential risks and opportunities across your contract portfolio.
• Produce financial and contractual performance forecasts, together with CVRs each month.
• Produce final accounts and conduct contractor reviews at project completion.
• Measuring projects onsite and supporting site meetings.
• Provide commercial advice to operational and engineering teams.

Why Apply

Great work life balance (37 hours per week) and a fantastic company culture, who offer a less stressful environment when compared to typical commercial jobs.

Clear career progression opportunities... you will part of a local 20+ commercial team that will continue to expand, with future growth planned.

Good training and development... pay for APC / MRICS qualification route, they also have various commercial professionals completing HNCs and Masters, as part of their Personal Development Plans.

Great pension... double employer contributions, up to 5%+10%.

Further Details

Managing various infrastructure frameworks across the region, on ongoing 5 year frameworks.

Framework projects range from £500k to £5m per project, across new build, refurbishment and maintenance.

QS and AQS roles are very similar, QS learn towards dispute resolution and are contractor facing. AQS lean towards measuring onsite and providing QS' with information to support their disputes.

Candidate Requirements

Our client is open on seeing candidates from client organisations, cost consultancies, contractors or subcontractors.

They are looking for Assistant QS' with 2+ years experience and Quantity Surveyors with 4-5+ years experience.

You must have good contract negotiation skills, experience of managing disputes, and understand measuring principles.

You must be a strong communicator, happy to meet stakeholders in person and develop relationships.

You must be achievement focused, visible and keen to deliver in the role.

Benefits

• Home Working
• Car / Car Allowance
• Excellent Pension