Senior Chartered Quantity Surveyor

Gateley Plc; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Gateley Plc is seeking a dedicated Chartered Quantity Surveyor to join their Project team in Nottingham. The successful candidate will lead multiple construction projects while providing excellent client service and mentoring junior staff. This is an excellent opportunity for career development in a supportive environment within an award-winning professional services firm.

Benefits

Annual bonus opportunity

Comprehensive learning and development opportunities

Flexible working patterns

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in quantity surveying and project management.
• Proficient in measurement, ideally using CostX.
• Commitment to achieve Chartered status within 3 years.

Responsibilities

• Lead construction projects and supervise your team's work.
• Act as the principal contact for clients and project consultants.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring service quality.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Communication

Negotiation

Education

Degree in Quantity Surveying

Construction Cost Management

Chartered membership of RICS

Tools

CostX Measurement Software

Job description

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About The Role

The Role

We are looking for a talented and ambitious Chartered Quantity Surveyor with team leading skills and dedicated to providing an excellent service to join our growing and successful Project team in Nottingham.

We are seeking applications from experienced Quantity Surveyors who have a Degree in Quantity Surveying, Construction Cost Management or a related field, and ideally, a Chartered member of the RICS, or a commitment to achieve Chartered status within 3 years.

If you are looking for an opportunity to work within a supportive, ambitious, growing and energetic team and would like to join an award-winning law led professional services business, we would like to hear from you.

You will be responsible for the following:

• Taking the lead on a range of construction projects and supervising the work of the Quantity Surveyors, Assistants and Apprentices in your team and helping them to fulfil their potential.
• Acting as the principal point of contact with the project client and the other consultants on the design team.
• Working independently and taking responsibility for the successful delivery of Gateley RJA's QS / PM services on all projects you and your team are working on.
• Taking responsbility for allocated Key Client Accounts, building a relationship with the Key Client(s), ensuring complete satisfaction with Gateley RJA services, and nurturing new work opportunities
• Training and assisting others, including the preparation and presentation of in-house CPD events
• Actively seeking new project opportunities for Gateley RJA and promoting the services of the practice at every opportunity including attendance and involvement at appropriate networking and marketing events.
• Acting as Employer's Agent on Design and Build projects.
• Following the company Quality Management System in the delivery of all services.
• Managing multiple projects simultaneously and developing excellent time management strategies.
• Treating all clients to exceptional level of service.

The Team

Gateley RJA is a Chartered Quantity Surveying Practice who offer a comprehensive range of construction consultancy services, including quantity surveying, project management, employer's agent, clerk of works, and advisory services.

Their team is experienced in various construction sectors such as health, care, industrial and manufacturing, residential, conservation, and commercial.

Gateley RJA is dedicated to delivering tailored solutions to meet the specific needs of their clients, ensuring that project budgets, timelines, and quality standards are consistently met. They pride themselves on building long-lasting relationships with clients, with much of their work coming from repeat business and personal recommendations.

Gateley RJA hold Investors in People Gold status, and strive to maintain a welcoming and people focused working environment

The Person

Candidates will be able to demonstrate the following attributes:

• Degree level in Quantity Surveying, Construction Cost Management or a related field.
• Ideally a chartered member of MRICS, or a commitment to achieve Chartered status within 3 years of starting Gateley RJA
• Minimum 3 years experience in running own projects quantity surveying and / or project management from a Consultancy background.
• Proficiency in measurement, ideally using CostX Measurement Software.
• Strategically minded with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Attention to detail and commitment to quality.
• Skilled negotiator.
• Driving licence and own car. Willingness to travel to sites across the UK as required

About Us

The benefits
With support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around our great development and progression opportunities will reward your commitment and loyalty. We offer a competitive remuneration package where you'll be rewarded for your individual performance with an opportunity to receive an annual bonus.

In addition, we have a wide range of learning and development opportunities via our Learn platform to develop new skills and progress your career. Our My Flex comprehensive rewards package includes options covering annual leave (and the benefit of purchasing extra days), cycle to work, critical illness benefit, employee assistance programme, group personal pension, health care, season ticket loan and many more benefits (grade dependent). Finally, with Perks At Work/Home you can select a host of retail benefits that suit your needs alongside a Community Online Academy, free courses for all from fitness to coding to languages to hip hop dance.

We are Gateley
We are forward thinking and straight talking, our approach is to find solutions to the problems that our clients face. Gateley is a legal and professional services group, we are a group of formidable experts in all areas of law and business. Passionate problem solvers, we get our kicks from finding the right answers and getting our legal and business clients where they need to be. We support more than 5,700 active clients, ranging from FTSE 100 companies to private individuals, in the UK and beyond. Being part of Gateley is not just about the expertise that you bring; it's about attitude too.

The 'Gateley Story' is the story of our people and our culture. It is what has got us to where we are today as a successful business and it's the driving force behind the Gateley Team Spirit and the values that have shaped it. We have a set of shared internal values that capture what the Gateley Team Spirit is and this includes five elements that bind us all together as one Gateley: Ambitious for Success, Forward Thinking, Room to Breathe, Trusted to Do and Working Together. Every year across the group, we recognise members of our team that have gone and above and beyond and have lived these shared values. They are recognised at our annual Gateley Team Spirit awards.

Diversity, inclusion and well being
Diversity, inclusion and well-being is an important part of Gateley's culture and values. We recruit talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, providing equal opportunities for all to join our team regardless of age, sex, race, sexual orientation, disability, or culture.

We create an exciting and rewarding place to work that aims to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals. We offer flexible working patterns to help our staff achieve a good work/ life balance and we encourage candidates seeking flexibility in their next role to apply for any of our vacancies.
We are proud to have been recognised by The Law Society as gold standard for our Diversity and Inclusion Charter and to be Stonewall Diversity Champions.

Additional Information
If you are successful in receiving an offer of a role with our company a variety of pre-employment screening checks will be completed. Our screening checks can include but are not limited to your eligibility to work, professional and academic qualifications, any criminal records, your financial stability, and references from previous employers. The screening that takes place will be relevant to your role and will vary from role to role.