Professional Quantity Surveyor
What's involved with this role:
Temporary Professional Quantity Surveyor
Ref number: Kirklees 0009 C450 / 1
Hybrid
Please do not apply for this role unless your CV meets the following general requirements, listed below:
You must be UK based and have the right to work in the UK.For office based and hybrid roles, your commute to the place of work must be less than 1 hour.
This is a temporary role. Please do not apply if you are seeking a permanent position.
Skills & Experience:
Have a Quantity Surveying related qualification to graduate level and have appropriate experience within a multi-disciplined professional design organisation.Understanding of construction and procurement processes, contract administration, technical language, and information, interpreting these for others.
Experience in planning, delivering, and evaluating a series of interrelated activities, undertaken to achieve a specific end result within a set timeframe, working to formal project management methodology.
Experience in managing, controlling, and using financial resources, assessing financial implications of actions, monitoring and reporting on variances, identifying remedial actions as a result of variances
The ability to apply financial control and manage the complexities of multi and single disciplinary design projects in a politically sensitive and commercial environment.
Desirable:
Chartered member of RICS
What's involved with this role: We are looking for an experienced and qualified Professional Quantity Surveyor (PQS) with a QS degree and post grad experience working on the Client side of project delivery. (preferably public sector experience)
Your role will be to provide the full range of Quantity Surveying services on complex projects as required under a commission including all Pre-Contract and Post-Contract services. As a competent Practitioner you will promote best practice in project and programme management, cost control, construction procurement, framework procurement, commercial and contractual management, and undertake associated tasks and functions linked to the role and service delivery, including applying information technology to best advantage.
Key responsibilities:
Achieving team aims and improving staff performance, responding to change to improve service delivery. Meeting customer expectations.Effectively employed resources to meet financial targets and service objectives. Planned workloads to meet target aims, reprioritized resources to meet deadlines.
Achieving personal targets and identifying development needs, effective contribution to organisational goals.
Positive working relationships with customers and colleagues to ensure project objectives are delivered in a courteous and professional manner.
Ensuring the service is cost effective and the section operates as a successful business unit and cost centre through monitoring and provision of accurate performance management information.
Projects and staff managed effectively to meet service key performance indicators, customer objectives and capital programmes.
Commissions completed in full, to the quality, time, and cost requirements of the brief. Option appraisals, feasibility studies and cost estimates meet customer requirements. Resources utilised to achieve the financial target required for each commission.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application should be clearly shown in your CV.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.1
Job Ref: Kirklees 0009 C450 / 1
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
Please do try to resist contacting us with requests for progress updates.
We really do read every CV sent to us. All applications will be acknowledged by a human, not a robot, provided the job remains live and provided your CV meets the “Essential Requirements” listed.
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Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary.