Quantity Surveyor in Ipswich

Energy Jobline CVL; Ipswich (MA); On-site; USD 53,000 - 87,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ongoing Training

Learning and development

Enhanced pension scheme

Staff get togethers

Family fun days

Personal help and assistance

Long Service Awards

Death in Service benefit

Job summary

First Military Recruitment is partnering with a company in East Anglia to appoint a permanent Quantity Surveyor. The role focuses on cost management, tender analysis, valuations, and final accounts, with exposure to subcontractor administration and cost control.

The successful candidate will ensure compliance with health and safety standards and support project delivery within a structured, collaborative team environment.

Qualifications

• Sound knowledge of health and safety issues.
• Excellent communication skills.
• IT literacy.
• Good level of analytical skills.
• Good attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Prepare activity schedules, bills of quantities and tender documents; assist with tender analysis and reports.
• Perform cost control, risk and value management.
• Prepare/agree monthly valuations with clients.
• Monitor and prepare costings for delay / EOT.
• Price and agree variations with internal team and client.
• Agree final accounts with client and allocate work to subcontractors.
• Monthly subcontractor payment certification and variations.

Skills

Health and safety knowledge

Excellent communication

IT literate

Analytical skills

Attention to detail

Job description

MB976: Quantity Surveyor

Location: East Anglia
Salary: £40,000 - £65,000 DOE
Working Hours: Monday to Friday
Benefits: Ongoing Training, learning, and development, enhanced pension scheme, Staff get togethers and family fun days, Personal help and assistance, Long Service Awards, Death in Service benefit

Overview

First Military Recruitment is proudly working in partnership with a fantastic business who are looking to recruit a Quantity Surveyor on a permanent basis due to growth based at their East Anglia office.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Prepare activity schedules, bills of quantities in accordance with methods of measurement, presentation of tender and contract documentations, attending interviews, carrying out full tender analysis and comparisons through to preparing the recommendation report.
• Perform risk, value management and cost control.
• Prepare / agree monthly valuations with clients.
• Monitor and prepare costings for delay / EOT.
• Price / agree variations with internal team and client agreement.
• Agreement of final account with client in prompt manner
• Allocate work to subcontractors
• Monthly sub-contractor payment certification, agreement of variations / final accounts.
• Assessing contractor applications, along with any changes, making recommendations, raising payment certificates and preparing general correspondence to sub-contracts.
• Provide advice on contractual claims.
• Responsible for liaising with external and internal stakeholders to enable the projects to progress without delay, ensuring that all reasonable requests are met in a timely efficient manner
• Manage current workload in order that all commissions receive the relevant allocation of own time to efficiently commercially manage them.
• Monitoring and controlling Build Costs
• Compliance with all relevant Company policies, procedures and guidance (including for example Health & Safety, Equality, Environmental & Quality, etc.)

Skills and Qualifications

• Have a sound general knowledge of health and safety issues
• Excellent communication skills
• IT Literate
• Good level of analytical skills
• Good attention to detail