Senior Quantity Surveyor: Housing Projects Lead

Taylor Wimpey; Leatherhead; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Taylor Wimpey in Leatherhead is seeking a Senior Commercial Manager to lead the full commercial management of housing projects from conception to completion. You will provide cost information for land purchase exercises and manage prime costs including labour, materials, and site operations.

You will monitor health and safety information flows, implement value engineering, maintain budgets, and coordinate with site teams to secure profitable outcomes.

Qualifications

• Wide experience in the house building industry.
• Strong knowledge of Building Regulations, NHBC and Health and Safety requirements.
• Industry related business qualification.
• Strong managerial and negotiation skills with internal and external clients.
• Working knowledge of contract law.
• IT literate (Although COINS system preferred).
• Preferably member of CIOB or RICS

Responsibilities

• Full commercial management of housing projects.
• Calculate prime costs on developments including house pricing, labour costs, site work operations and remediation work.
• Maintain and reconcile whole site infrastructure budgets and reconcile against phased developments.
• Provide a detailed cost budget and share with the Site Manager at the appropriate time.
• Implement value engineering solutions & strategies to optimise profit and efficiency for the business.
• Maintain schedules of quantities and price them for prime cost budgets.
• Preparation of Site Budgets for authorisation by the Business Unit Management Team at the appropriate time.
• Manage the adoption process of public works.
• Assist in finalising/agreeing Housing Association contracts.
• Manage Housing Association valuations and attend meetings on site.
• Manage Closed Contracts provisions and orders.
• Assist Customer Services in assessing the best commercial outcome for dealing with defects.
• Ensure the surveying team are run using consistently processes, documents & procedures.
• Responsible for the pricing and management of subcontractors for the Customer Options system.
• Once land opportunities are identified, familiarise the geographical area and consider site issues.
• Prepare estimates of all prime costs including subcontract and materials.
• Use COINS systems to present feasibility study of the site incorporating all development costs.
• Complete the apportionment of total prime costs to individual plots and produce a profit analysis for the Director.
• Monitor and explain subcontractor cost movements.
• Responsible for procurement of subcontractors including payments, variation orders and day works and settlement of final accounts.
• Undertake valuations of production at budgeted cost on a monthly basis and split the cost of profit completions and potential future profit to estimate a value for work in progress.
• Report on savings and excesses against budget costs to the Director.
• Forecast final accounts.
• Be aware of all codes of practice that impact on estimating e.g. Building Regulations, NHBC requirements, HSE etc.
• Monitor, reconcile and recharge any costs, which relate to shared cost items with either other businesses within the Group or external Companies.
• Attend relevant project, concept, pre-tender, pre-start, specification and any other relevant meeting as required.
• Input and maintain any computer-based databases or systems.
• Attend site regularly to complete Commercial functions and support the site team to running an efficient development.

Skills

Managerial and negotiation skills

Team leadership

Cost control

Education

Industry related business qualification

Tools

COINS system

Job description

Taylor Wimpey in Leatherhead is seeking a Senior Commercial Manager to lead the full commercial management of housing projects from conception to completion. You will provide cost information for land purchase exercises and manage prime costs including labour, materials, and site operations.

You will monitor health and safety information flows, implement value engineering, maintain budgets, and coordinate with site teams to secure profitable outcomes.