Senior Quantity Surveyor

Bellway Homes Ltd; Kings Hill; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK house builder is seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor to manage the commercial aspects of developments. Responsibilities include budget management, valuation reporting, and collaboration with contractors. Ideal candidates should have experience in residential building and relevant qualifications like HND in Building Studies and RICS membership. This office-based role offers competitive salary and benefits including car allowance and holiday schemes. Flexibility in duties and hours is required.

Benefits

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

Qualifications

• Experience of working as a Quantity Surveyor with a residential house builder.
• Knowledge of cost control systems and valuation reporting.
• Ideally experience managing Housing Association contracts.

Responsibilities

• Manage commercial aspects of each development.
• Produce draft budgets and valuations for sites.
• Attend meetings with contractors and senior management.
• Complete on-site measurements and assess payments.

Skills

Strong communication and listening skills

Good negotiation skills

IT literate

Attention to detail

Education

HND/HNC Building Studies

GCSE Grade C/4+ or equivalent in English and Maths

RICS Professional Membership

BSc in Quantity Surveying

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 Kent Division, located in West Malling is looking to recruit a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join the Division’s Commercial department.

The Role

This role of Senior 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. Senior Surveyors are typically allocated sites that are more complex by nature, whether this is due to the type of construction, the speed of construction, or whether it is a multi-phase site or a consortium site (shared infrastructure with another developer).

The Senior 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 Skill

Experience

• Experience of working as a Quantity Surveyor or Surveyor with a residential house builder
• Knowledge of cost control systems and valuation reporting.
• Ideally experience of managing Housing Association contracts.

Qualifications and Training

• HND/HNC Building Studies
• GCSE Grade C/4+ or equivalent in English and Maths
• Current CSCS card or equivalent is desirable
• RICS Professional Membership is desirable
• BSc in Quantity Surveying 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.