Senior Quantity Surveyor

Advantage RSK; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Advantage RSK, a member of the RSK Group, is seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our West Midlands team on a full-time, permanent basis. The role covers pre- and post-contract surveying, cost management, tendering, and client liaison across diverse projects.

You will oversee cost checks, valuations, financial reporting, and contract administration, while mentoring junior staff and supporting the Commercial Manager in delivering client-focused outcomes.

Qualifications

• Five years’ experience in quantity surveying or a related role.
• A degree in a quantity surveying discipline, accredited by RICS or equivalent.
• Professional qualification with RICS/CIArb/CIOB and current membership or working towards.

Responsibilities

• Supporting an internal team to ensure deliverables and priorities are met.
• Responsible for pre- and post-contract quantity surveying duties.
• Managing tendering, procurement, prequalification, tender analysis, and contract documents.
• Carrying out cost checks, valuations on larger projects, and ensuring timely reporting.
• Supporting the Commercial Manager with client expectations and contract administration.
• Managing financial delivery of contracts, including applications for payment, cash flow, change control, and final accounts.
• Providing input to financial reporting, cost value reconciliation, and cash forecasts.
• Ensuring compliance with contractual notifications and communications.
• Advising clients on strategies, prequalifications, bid evaluations, and appointment processes.

Education

BSc (Hons) degree accredited by RICS, or equivalent degree

Professionally qualified with RICS, CIArb or CIOB

Driving licence

Job description

The Vacancy

Advantage RSK, an RSK Group company, are recruiting for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join the team based in the West Midlands. This is a full-time, permanent position.

Responsibilities

• Supporting an internal team to ensure deliverables and priorities are met.
• Responsible for pre-and post-contract quantity surveying duties.
• Support the project team with tendering and procuring, including managing the pre-qualification stage, producing the tender list, putting the preliminaries together, tender analysis, producing the tender report and compiling the contractual documents.
• Taking personal responsibility for making cost checks and carrying out valuations on larger projects and in all cases ensuring that timely and accurate cost checking and valuation takes place.
• Supporting the Commercial Manager or other members of the project team with managing client expectations with regards to priorities and deliverables.
• Managing financial and commercial delivery of contracts including preparing applications for payment, managing cash and collection, change control, supply chain management through to final account negotiation and agreement.
• Provide input with financial reporting including cost value reconciliation of accounts including cash forecast, final costs, monthly liabilities and payments.
• Ensure sound contract administration of contracts including adherence to contractual notifications such as early warning, notification of compensation events, payment notices and payless notices, programme submissions, and all other contractual communications.
• Support the project team by advising client on strategies, managing prequalification of vendors, assessing proposals, bids, and bid levelling documents, making final recommendations to the client and attending bid interviews, and managing appointment process.
• Advising client on contractual and commercial matters.
• Contributing to business development including client management.
• Assisting with financial reporting of the business including compliance with any group requirements.
• Mentoring of the team and providing day to day support.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum of five years’ experience
• BSc (Hons) degree accredited by RICS, or equivalent degree
• Professionally qualified (or working towards membership) with RICS, CIArb or CIOB
• Driving licence

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About Us

We are a specialist quantity surveying and commercial and project management company. Our bespoke services are supplied to diverse clients in the infrastructure, construction, oil and gas, pharmaceutical and renewables sectors. Our vibrant, innovative team of chartered quantity surveyors and commercial management consultants are devising niche solutions to meet the challenges of the commercial world. We have devised and delivered high-quality projects for major global clients.

We aim to provide strategic, objective and commercial advice to our clients, thereby emphasising conflict avoidance and resolution. We resolve challenges using our team's combined accumulation of specialist knowledge and expertise and through the direct and informed application of our innovative services. These cover all aspects of commercial management, including pre- and post-contract services and dispute management.

Advantage RSK is part of the RSK Group, a leading integrated environmental, engineering, and technical services business providing dynamic, multidisciplinary services to a wide range of sectors. RSK was founded in 1989 and has grown considerably since then.

At RSK, we operate as a group of businesses that work together seamlessly, aiming for growth through diversification. Our strategy helps us build a strong and resilient business, capable of weathering external challenges, while also providing greater value to our clients and more opportunities for our employees.

Since the beginning, our philosophy has remained the same: employ, develop and reward talented individuals. People are crucial to our company, and we recognise that our success hinges on our colleagues' growth. We're committed to preserving RSK's people-first culture, promoting innovation, and fostering a supportive and caring environment for collaboration. At RSK, we want you to be part of our successes and help you reach your career aspirations. We take pride in offering employees fulfilling and challenging careers by promoting ongoing growth and empowering individuals to excel.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that welcomes individuals from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We firmly believe that embracing and celebrating the diversity in our workforce makes us a stronger and more innovative company.

By providing workplace adjustments, we make it easier for people to confidently explore and pursue our career opportunities and recognise that flexibility is key to fostering a dynamic and thriving workplace.Many of our office-based positions benefit from a flexible working arrangement, allowing our team members to achieve a balance between professional and personal commitments.

We actively encourage applications from candidates of all genders, races, ethnicities, ages, neurotypes, religions or beliefs, sexual orientations, and those with disabilities.

If you're passionate about making a difference, join us as we work together to build a brighter, more equitable, and sustainable future for all. Do you have what it takes?