Senior Quantity Surveyor

Job Description

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Quantity Surveyor (Senior Commercial Manager) with Residential and / or Hotel and leisure experience to work on a major project in the northern home counties. This will be working in the pre construction phase through to project delivery on site.

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Key responsibilities:

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• Procurement of the project in accordance with approved strategy, ensuring that orders are fully scoped, bought at best value and are correctly contracted in accordance with limits of authority.

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• Liaising and communicating with the Client team in accordance with the

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• contract. Managing supply chain relationships to ensure a consistent and

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• coordinated approach to procurement.

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• Robust implementation and management of commercial, legal, insurance and risk controls of the Project.

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• Accurate commercial reporting and contract administration.

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• This includes (but is not limited to) interim payments, management of change

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• accounts, cashflows, final accounting and contract administration.

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• You will ensure that the project is delivered in a safe, timely, efficient and

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• sustainable manner, whilst achieving project targets, meeting client expectations and enhancing the reputation of the business.

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Essential Credentials:

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• Maintain CSCS card for the role

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• Professional Construction Qualifications relevant to the role or qualified by appropriate level of experience (as noted below)

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• Have a related Chartership such as MRICS or MCIOB

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Skills, Knowledge, Experience, Behaviours

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Essential Skills

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• Written and verbal communication to influence and build relationships

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• Ability to influence and lead teams

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• Demonstrates skills in the avoidance and defence of claims

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• Tendering subcontract works packages of medium to high value

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• Able to prepare subcontract documentation ready for engrossment by external parties

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• Advanced word-processing, Excel spreadsheet packages and cost management software

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• Ability to read drawings and construction design information

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• Valuing interim applications

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• Measurement and valuation techniques

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• Management of claims including assessment of entitlement for prolongation, loss and Expense including inflation

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Essential Knowledge

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• Knowledge of current construction laws, legislations, and regulations, standards and procedures

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• Commercial and financial understanding in the above context – ability to contribute to value engineering as part of the design process

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• Understand and apply commercial & financial procedures and reporting systems

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• Maintains detailed prelim forecasts and actual costs and intervenes were negative trends identified

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• Management of bonds, PCGs, warranty insurances and associated risks

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• Management of cost, value and profit

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• Reports accurately to the monthly forecast final account

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• Manages cash flow to the benefit of the project and business

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• Good understanding of building technology / construction

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• methods

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• Full knowledge and understanding of JCT, NEC, Construction Management and Management Contracting Contracts

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• Experience in Commercial office projects managing large MEP packages and taking projects through to CAT B finish.

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Essential Experience

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• Pre-construction experience

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• Background with a main contractor on projects above £30m in value

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• Proven track record of delivering successful construction projects safely

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• Experience of managing field construction activities on major/complex projects

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• Demonstratable experience in construction, including a sound knowledge of Construction methodology, process and sequence

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• Procurement of work packages in line with the Project Procurement Strategy

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• Conversion of the project from preconstruction to construction

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• Communicating and liaising with the Client team in accordance with the contract

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• Production of Tender Recommendation Reports and Contract Sum Analysis

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• Preparation of Subcontracts for execution in line with limits of authority

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• Procures robust packages with an understanding of package interfaces

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• Manages the change process in accordance with the contract

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• Prepares bid documentation to ensure a fully defined tender

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Essential Behaviours

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• Flexibility and openness of approach and willingness to work as a team player

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• Must lead in the Incident and Injury Free (IIF) vision, both personal and organisational, to create an existence absent of incident and injury

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• Supports the project manager to manage project risk and opportunities

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• Levelling existing knowledge to continuously improve processes to achieve efficiency.

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• Attention to detail, ability to flex to meet business plans and drive to meet key dates.

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• Ability to join up a wide range of complex issues and understand how they relate to each other.

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• Uncompromising discipline and rigorous approach to follow the process and close projects out.

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• Collaborates across the organisation and external teams. Communicates the strategy and maximises outcomes for all parties.

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• Drives a culture of safety and quality and embeds best practice to set the standard in the organisation and the industry.

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We will provide:

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• Car allowance

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• Up to 10% employer pension contribution

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• Private medical health benefit (Family cover available)

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• Life assurance

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• 25 days annual leave with the option to buy or sell additional days

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• 3 days wellbeing leave in addition to annual leave

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• Health and wellbeing support and initiatives

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• 24/7 confidential Employee Assistance Programme including direct access to Talking Therapies and Coaching services

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• Discounted gym membership to over 2,500 gym’s nationwide

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• Industry leading parental leave

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