Senior Quantity Surveyor in Cardiff, South Glamorgan

Energy Jobline CVL; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Energy Job Board in the UK seeks a senior Quantity Surveyor to manage large-scale retrofit projects in social housing. Candidates should have relevant surveying qualifications and experience supervising project budgets up to £10m. Responsibilities include liaising with construction teams, managing contracts, and ensuring project deliverables meet financial expectations. This role requires strong communication and project management skills.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2-3 years of experience as a Quantity Surveyor
• Experience in managing commercial aspects of construction projects up to £10m
• CRB/Disclosure checked as required for specific sites

Responsibilities

• Manage and monitor the commercial aspects of contracts
• Valuation of works and associated documentation
• Liaise with finance, procurement, and project management teams

Skills

Facades experience

Communication

Project management

Budget management

Education

Qualified or nearing completion e.g. AIOB, FIOB, RICS

Degree in surveying

Tools

MS Excel

MS Word

MS Project

Job description

Energy Jobline is the largest and fastest growing global Energy Job Board and Energy Hub. We have an audience reach of over 7 million energy professionals, 400,000+ monthly advertised global energy and engineering jobs, and work with the leading energy companies worldwide.

We focus on the Oil & Gas, Renewables, Engineering, Power, and Nuclear markets as well as emerging technologies in EV, Battery, and Fusion. We are committed to ensuring that we offer the most exciting career opportunities from around the world for our jobseekers.

Due to continued Growth, we are recruiting for a senior Quantity Surveyor for our clients. Main works are large scale retrofit and regeneration works within social housing Inc. external facades, rainscreen, roofing, scaffold and associated works.

Successful candidates will ideally have some facades experience but importantly have the experience and knowledge to oversee the commercial aspect of 2-3 project up to £10m with little assistance.

Overall purpose of role

To:

• Work closely with construction and project management to manage and monitor the commercial aspects of delivery of assigned contracts to budget.
• Liaise with the Senior Surveyor in order to ensure delivery of budget and financial information.
• Liaise with finance, procurement and estimating as required.

Responsibilities

• Management and monitoring of assigned project plan, associated budget, costs and contract terms, with senior surveyor as appropriate.
• Liaison with senior surveyor and senior project manager.
• Liaison with financial controller, procurement manager and estimator.
• Valuation of works and collation of associated documentation for CVR, cash flow forecast and sales forecast.
• Discussion with client and counter‑signing of documentation.

Key tasks

• Monitor and manage orders, deliveries and invoicing of materials
• Monitor and manage sub‑contractor orders, approvals and payments
• Manage valuations and associated documentation
• Ensure familiarity with budget from Estimating department
• Ensure Project database is updated with relevant information
• Provide information to enable updating of sales forecast, cash flow forecast and CVR
• Attend site meetings as required
• Manage own workload and priorities

Competencies

Role‑specific

• Technical – qualified, or nearing completion of, e.g. AIOB, FIOB, RICS or Degree in surveying and experienced senior / managing surveyor within construction industry.
• CSCS card – visitor’s card or as required by client
• Programme and project management – working knowledge of GANTT charts including interpretation of requirements and tracking of financial information.
• CRB/Disclosure checked as required for specific sites e.g. schools.

General IT

• Intermediate user MS Excel.
• Competent user MS Word, Microsoft Outlook email and calendars.
• Working knowledge of MS Project.

Non‑technical

• Communication
• Working together effectively
• Managing our business commercially
• Managing self and others

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