Senior Quantity Surveyor Commercial & Retail Refurbishment & Upgrade

Build People; Slough; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Project Performance Bonus (1.5%)

Employee-Owned Trust

Private healthcare

Private dental insurance

Life insurance

Pension scheme

Length of service reward

Tradepoint discount scheme

Private financial advice

Job summary

Build People is recruiting a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join the Commercial Team in London, Canary Wharf. The role covers Commercial, Data Centre & Retail refurbishment and upgrades, working on JCT contracts.

You will collaborate with designers, architects, estimating teams, contractors and clients to manage all commercial aspects and ensure successful handover of projects to the highest standards.

Qualifications

• Experience managing multi-million-pound projects from conception to final account.
• Strong understanding of M&E installations.
• Good knowledge of standard form contracts (particularly JCT).
• Experience drafting and submitting contractual documentation (Notice of Delay, EoT).
• Knowledge of RIBA stages and requirements.
• Professional demeanour, client facing with customer care focus.
• Ability to remain calm and solve problems under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with designers, architects, estimating, account leads, project teams, sub-contractors and suppliers to deliver projects.
• Manage all commercial aspects from conception through design to handover and close out.
• Ensure projects are handed over to the highest standards of professionalism and quality.

Skills

Project management

M&E knowledge

JCT contracts

Drafting docs

RIBA stages

Client facing

Negotiation

UK driving licence

Eligibility to work in UK

Job description

Senior Quantity Surveyor Commercial & Retail Refurbishment & Upgrades

Salary - £90k to £95k

• 1.5% Project Performance Bonus
• Following 12 months of continuous employment, you are entitled to become a beneficiary of the Employee-Owned Trust (EOT) scheme.
• Private Healthcare.
• Private Dental Insurance.
• Life Insurance.
• Pension Scheme.
• Length of Service reward scheme.
• Tradepoint discount scheme.
• Private Financial Advice.

The Company

The client is a well-established turnkey Principal Contractor with a turnover of c£80m. This has been achieved by working collaboratively with our clients to understand their needs and become an extension of their business, expanding service offerings and geography to meet the expectations required

The Senior Quantity Surveyor Role

They are currently looking to recruit a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join their Commercial Team in London, Canary Wharf. The Projects they will be involved in are Commercial, Data Centre & Retail Refurbishment & Upgrades, working on JCT Contracts.

The role will require close collaboration with numerous stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle, including but not limited to the following: designers both internal and external, architects, estimating department, key account leads, project operational teams both in house and client side, sub-contractors, manufacturers and specialist suppliers, client agents, commissioning teams and high-profile customers.

The candidate will be a key contributor from conception, through the design stages, managing all commercial aspects relating to delivery and ensuring that each project is successfully handed over and closed out in a professional manner to the highest of standards

The Successful Senior Quantity Surveyor Role

• Experience managing multi-million-pound projects from conception to final account agreement.
• Strong understanding of M&E installations.
• Good knowledge of standard form contracts (particularly JCT).
• Experience drafting and submitting contractual documentation (Notice of Delay, EoT).
• Knowledge of RIBA stages and requirements.
• Professional demeanour, client facing and with a keen focus on customer care in all instances.
• Ability to remain calm and solve problems under pressure.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Confident, effective communicator.
• Able to make sound decisions while assessing potential impacts to multiple entities both up and downstream.
• Ability to prioritise tasks when working to strict deadlines across multiple projects.
• Strong negotiation skills.
• A UK Driving Licence.
• Eligibility to work in the UK.