Senior Quantity Surveyor

Bovis; East Hyde; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Up to 10% employer pension

Private medical health benefit (Family

Life assurance

25 days annual leave with option to 1?

Wellbeing leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Discounted gym membership

Parental leave

Job summary

Bovis is recruiting a Senior Quantity Surveyor to lead commercial activities on a major project in the northern home counties, from pre-construction through to on-site delivery. Experience in residential and/or hotel and leisure sectors is preferred.

You will oversee procurement, supplier relationships, and robust commercial controls, ensuring accurate reporting and timely payments, while driving safety and value throughout the project.

Qualifications

• CSCS card required for the role.
• Chartered MRICS or MCIOB qualification or equivalent experience.
• Proven track record on major projects from pre-construction to delivery.

Responsibilities

• Procurement of project packages with best value and clear contracts.
• Liaising with client team and managing supply chain relationships.
• Implementing commercial, legal, insurance and risk controls.
• Accurate commercial reporting and contract administration (payments, cashflow, variations).
• Ensure safe, timely and sustainable project delivery while meeting targets.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Claims management

Tendering

Subcontracts

Excel & cost management

Reading drawings

Interim valuations

Valuation techniques

Cost control & contracts

Education

MRICS or MCIOB chartership

CSCS card

Tools

Cost management software

Excel

Job description

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Quantity Surveyor (Senior Commercial Manager) with Residential and / or Hotel and leisure experience to work on a major project in the northern home counties. This will be working in the pre construction phase through to project delivery on site.

Key responsibilities:

• Procurement of the project in accordance with approved strategy, ensuring that orders are fully scoped, bought at best value and are correctly contracted in accordance with limits of authority.
• Liaising and communicating with the Client team in accordance with the
• contract. Managing supply chain relationships to ensure a consistent and
• coordinated approach to procurement.
• Robust implementation and management of commercial, legal, insurance and risk controls of the Project.
• Accurate commercial reporting and contract administration.
• This includes (but is not limited to) interim payments, management of change
• accounts, cashflows, final accounting and contract administration.
• You will ensure that the project is delivered in a safe, timely, efficient and
• sustainable manner, whilst achieving project targets, meeting client expectations and enhancing the reputation of the business.

Essential Credentials:

• Maintain CSCS card for the role
• Professional Construction Qualifications relevant to the role or qualified by appropriate level of experience (as noted below)
• Have a related Chartership such as MRICS or MCIOB

Skills, Knowledge, Experience, Behaviours

Essential Skills

• Written and verbal communication to influence and build relationships
• Ability to influence and lead teams
• Demonstrates skills in the avoidance and defence of claims
• Tendering subcontract works packages of medium to high value
• Able to prepare subcontract documentation ready for engrossment by external parties
• Advanced word-processing, Excel spreadsheet packages and cost management software
• Ability to read drawings and construction design information
• Valuing interim applications
• Measurement and valuation techniques
• Management of claims including assessment of entitlement for prolongation, loss and Expense including inflation

Essential Knowledge

• Knowledge of current construction laws, legislations, and regulations, standards and procedures
• Commercial and financial understanding in the above context – ability to contribute to value engineering as part of the design process
• Understand and apply commercial & financial procedures and reporting systems
• Maintains detailed prelim forecasts and actual costs and intervenes were negative trends identified
• Management of bonds, PCGs, warranty insurances and associated risks
• Management of cost, value and profit
• Reports accurately to the monthly forecast final account
• Manages cash flow to the benefit of the project and business
• Good understanding of building technology / construction
• methods
• Full knowledge and understanding of JCT, NEC, Construction Management and Management Contracting Contracts
• Experience in Commercial office projects managing large MEP packages and taking projects through to CAT B finish.

Essential Experience

• Pre-construction experience
• Background with a main contractor on projects above £30m in value
• Proven track record of delivering successful construction projects safely
• Experience of managing field construction activities on major/complex projects
• Demonstratable experience in construction, including a sound knowledge of Construction methodology, process and sequence
• Procurement of work packages in line with the Project Procurement Strategy
• Conversion of the project from preconstruction to construction
• Communicating and liaising with the Client team in accordance with the contract
• Production of Tender Recommendation Reports and Contract Sum Analysis
• Preparation of Subcontracts for execution in line with limits of authority
• Procures robust packages with an understanding of package interfaces
• Manages the change process in accordance with the contract
• Prepares bid documentation to ensure a fully defined tender

Essential Behaviours

• Flexibility and openness of approach and willingness to work as a team player
• Must lead in the Incident and Injury Free (IIF) vision, both personal and organisational, to create an existence absent of incident and injury
• Supports the project manager to manage project risk and opportunities
• Levelling existing knowledge to continuously improve processes to achieve efficiency.
• Attention to detail, ability to flex to meet business plans and drive to meet key dates.
• Ability to join up a wide range of complex issues and understand how they relate to each other.
• Uncompromising discipline and rigorous approach to follow the process and close projects out.
• Collaborates across the organisation and external teams. Communicates the strategy and maximises outcomes for all parties.
• Drives a culture of safety and quality and embeds best practice to set the standard in the organisation and the industry.

We will provide:

• Car allowance
• Up to 10% employer pension contribution
• Private medical health benefit (Family cover available)
• Life assurance
• 25 days annual leave with the option to buy or sell additional days
• 3 days wellbeing leave in addition to annual leave
• Health and wellbeing support and initiatives
• 24/7 confidential Employee Assistance Programme including direct access to Talking Therapies and Coaching services
• Discounted gym membership to over 2,500 gym’s nationwide
• Industry leading parental leave