Site Surveyor

WATES; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction company in the UK is seeking a Site Surveyor to join their Reactive Division. The role involves cost control, client liaising, and ensuring compliance with service standards. Candidates should possess strong financial skills and a commitment to customer service. This position offers a mix of office and site work, with some home working flexibility.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in commercial roles within the construction industry.
• Ability to maximise value recovery and manage costs effectively.
• Experience with financial reports and software.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and control project costs to ensure profitability.
• Liaise with clients to ensure compliance with service standards.
• Prepare monthly Cost Value Reconciliations (CVR) and reports.

Skills

Financial awareness

Cost control

Cash management

Effective communication

Job description

The Vacancy

Wates have an opportunity for a Site Surveyor to join our Wates team within our Reactive Division. You will be working out of our Streatham office on our repairs and voids contracts. The focus of this role will be to produce the commercial outputs and effectively monitor/exercise cost control, as well as to liaise with client representative/s to ensure compliance with contractual service standards, to ensure the company operates efficiently and profitably.

Key Accountabilities

• Develop and encourage project team performance encouraging and ensuring that Wates’ main contractual obligations and or strategies are executed and regularly reviewed
• Complete and submit monthly Cost Value Reconciliations (CVR) and progress reports
• Demonstrate understanding of internal and external tender strategies / build up and work to the profit plan
• Agree external valuations / cash flow to maximise project value
• Work with the Commercial Manager to agree and produce main and subcontract final accounts
• Ensure all Wates subcontract management / process obligations are complete with particular reference to Procurement, Measurement and valuation, Contractual instructions / notices / orders as well as Health and Safety

We are looking for someone with financial and commercial awareness with a clear commitment to a customer-centred service.

To be successful in the role you will already have relevant commercial skills and experience including the ability to maximise value recovery, cost control and cash management as well as effectively use / understand financial reports and software.

Alongside this you will be a confident communicator, able to demonstrate the ability to form and develop relationships with the client, Project Surveyors, internal team and supply chain. The role would be based between office and site, with some home working.

Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant’s criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks.

To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies. Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer. We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.