Senior Quantity Surveyor

Novus Property Solutions Ltd.; Leighton Buzzard; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and award-winning property maintenance company as a Senior Quantity Surveyor. This role is pivotal in managing refurbishment projects for social housing, ensuring costs and timelines are met while collaborating closely with operational teams. With a strong focus on inclusivity and community impact, this company offers a supportive environment where your contributions truly matter. Enjoy a healthy work-life balance, an attractive salary, and various employee benefits, including a pension scheme and health discounts. If you're ready to make a difference in the housing sector, this is the opportunity for you!

Benefits

27 Days Holiday & BH

Company Pension Scheme

Discounted Healthcare Scheme

High Street & Lifestyle Discounts

Paid Volunteering Day

Length of Service Awards

Qualifications

• Experience as a Senior Quantity Surveyor, ideally in Social Housing sector.
• Strong communication and IT skills are essential for success.

Responsibilities

• Monitor project progress and report changes affecting costs or timelines.
• Liaise with Contract Managers to establish project specifications.
• Prepare monthly valuation reports and cash flow forecasts.

Skills

Attention to Detail

Communication Skills

Experience in Social Housing

IT Proficiency

MS Office Skills

Education

Degree in Quantity Surveying or related field

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Based : Leighton Buzzard office; Office based with travel around the local sites throughout Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and surrounding areas. Working 08:30 – 17:00 Monday – Friday

Working with us as a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you’ll know that what you do matters, and creating an environment that enables you to be at your best matters to us. We get to see our impact and the improvements we provide to our customers every day; which is only possible because of our amazing teams, made up of great people, just like you. Fast paced and progressive, you will have the opportunity to take responsibility and thrive in an environment where you are trusted; with a work/life balance that gives you the chance to feel motivated and satisfied, at work and at home.

Within our Social Housing Planned refurbishment works programs and some projects, such as Kitchen, Bathroom, Window and Doors and Roofing refits you will work both from our office and on site, collaborating with your team in an environment that is inclusive and fair for everyone.

You will work closely with the Operational teams in Leighton Buzzard and covering contracts across the region, which are typically planned refurbishment works of Tenanted Social Housing properties (typically covering all aspects of refurbishments to properties including Kitchens, bathrooms, doors and roofing replacements). Your role is to obtain and evaluate information to ensure a realistic cost for the supply of works, goods, materials, and services for designated Refurbishment/Projects, whilst liaising with Contractors, Suppliers and Clients to ensure information, costs, profitability and value meet the requirements of designated project/contracts.

What’s in it for you:

• Attractive salary and benefits package to suit you
• 27 Days Hols & BH – option to buy or sell holidays
• Company pension scheme – up to 7.5%
• We also offer our employees; Discounted Healthcare Scheme, High street & lifestyle discounts including Taste card, a day paid volunteering per year, length of service awards, and many more.

An outline of your responsibility as a Senior Quantity Surveyor

• Monitor the contract progress, assess, and report any changes that may affect project costs and or time scale.
• Liaise with Contract Managers to establish the project specification and requirements.
• Value and authorise payments to sub-contractors.
• Assist in the control of contract budgets.
• Prepare and monitor cash flow forecast for designated projects.
• Prepare and submit monthly applications for payment to the Client/Client’s representative.
• Prepare monthly valuation reports.
• Submit invoices for certified value and ensure payments are received on time.
• Attend and contribute to meetings with work colleagues and or Clients/Customers when necessary, building relationships and demonstrating excellent communication skills.
• Assist in the development of the procurement programme.
• Assist in the preparation, processing and selection of estimates, bids, and tenders to demanding timescales.

About You

You will have experience of working as a Senior Quantity Surveyor preferably within the Social Housing sector. Your expertise as a Surveyor will give you the knowledge to hit the ground running and contribute effectively to the team, as a person of knowledge and wealth of experience from the Commercial aspect in our sector. Attention to detail and great written and verbal communication skills will be essential to your success. You will also be proficient with IT and MS Office skills. A Full UK Driving Licence is required as travel is a must with this role. The role will require a DBS check to be completed.

A little bit about us

Novus Property Solutions is a dynamic, award-winning property maintenance, refurbishment, compliance, and decarbonisation specialist with more than 700 colleagues in 20 locations across Great Britain, providing a combination of local knowledge and national strength. We are a social and environmentally responsible family-owned business with a rich 127-year heritage, delivering a range of bespoke services and solutions to a wide variety of clients. Our vision is to be the leader in building and maintenance solutions, delivered with compassion and care for the communities in which we operate.

At Novus Property Solutions we value people, and we are committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace that enables our people to bring their full selves to work. We understand for many reasons that people very rarely meet all the criteria laid out in the job advert, so we encourage you to apply for the role even if you do not meet all the criteria or hold all the qualifications. You may be just who we are looking for to join our award-winning Property Maintenance company in this, or another role.