Senior Quantity Surveyor - Super Prime Residential

Hill & Hill Recruitment Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Health Care through Vitality

Gympass

NEST Pension

25 Days Annual Leave

Birthday Day Off

Job summary

Hill & Hill Recruitment Ltd is recruiting a Senior Quantity Surveyor to manage super prime residential projects in London and the home counties. The role involves overseeing commercial cost appraisals, feasibility analyses, procurement, and site budgets, while supporting a high-caliber team from land acquisition to final adoption.

You will report to the Managing Director and Commercial Director, ensuring profitability and contract control, with emphasis on NEC-based contracts and adherence to

Qualifications

• Ambitious individual with great communication skills and a flexible approach.
• Demonstrate innovative problem-solving and negotiate across construction levels.
• Impressive numeracy and IT skills to handle financial and mathematical demands.
• Experience as an SQS with NEC contracts is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Support and mentoring of junior staff.
• Maximise profitability on contracts.
• Monitor contract costs against budgets.
• Identify risks and evaluate control options.
• Prepare estimates and procurement of sub-contractors and materials.
• Certify interim and final payments to subcontractors.
• Prepare and agree main contract variations.
• Assist in documentation for dispute resolution (adjudications/arbitrations).
• Ensure compliance with quality, safety and environmental policies.

Skills

Communication skills

Numeracy

Negotiation

Problem-solving

Job description

Hill & Hill are currently headhunting for a Senior Quantity Surveyor, Our client is a leading property developer working in London and home counties. They have a top class multi million pound project portfolio, dealing with super prime high end residential projects. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a self-build property developer working along side some of the best talent on the market.

This role entails reporting to the Managing Director and Commercial Director, you will support site development and the attainment of targets by ensuring/managing: commercial cost appraisals and viability/ feasibility analysis; the procurement of sub-contractors, materials and goods; the preparation and monitoring of site costs and budgets; and site set-up health and safety and including all technical, engineering and architectural aspects of the business from land acquisition through to site completions and final adoptions.

Our client is currently looking for an individuals who has had experience dealing with super prime high-end residential projects, high end refurbishments, new build and fit out projects for exclusive and prestigious clientele.

Main Duties:

• Support and mentoring of junior staff.
• Maximise profitability on contracts.
• Monitoring contract costs against budgets.
• Identifying potential risks and evaluate options for control.
• Preparation of estimates.
• Procurement of sub-contractors, including preparation of sub contract documents.
• Assessment and certification of interim and final payments to subcontractors.
• Preparation and agreeing main contract variations.
• Assist in the preparation of documents for resolution of disputes (adjudications / arbitrations and the like).
• Ensure all work complies with quality, safety and environmental policies and the requirements of the company procedure.

Must haves:

• Ambitious individual with great communication skills, who is confident with a flexible approach.
• Demonstrate innovative approaches to problem solving and the ability to negotiate across the various levels of any construction environment.
• Handle the financial and mathematical demands of the role by possessing impressive numeracy and IT skills.
• Experience as a SQS working with the NEC form of contract.

Excellent benefits package and personal development opportunities:

• 20 Days Annual Leave + 8 Days Bank Holiday + 3 Christmas Days
• 1 Day off For Birthdays
• Private Health Care through Vitality Health
• Gympass
• NEST Pension