Senior Quantity Surveyor - Fawkes & Reece
Senior Quantity Surveyor
My client are a national house builder delivering new build properties to a wide range of customers varying from luxury family homes to townhouses, cottages and apartments located in new communities, urban, suburban or rural locations creating places of character and quality.Their homes are designed to work for the way people live today with materials and landscaping that reflect their commitment to quality, style and character.
Senior Quantity Surveyor Role
Owing to the start up of new projects they have a requirement for an ambitious Senior Quantity Surveyor with expertise in the financial delivery of residential projects of varying size and complexity. Reporting to the Commercial Manager you your duties will include:
- Strive to optimise the profitability of the Contracts.
- Ensure that the Contracts achieve the optimum cashflow position.
- Completion and compliance with required contract documentation including Performance Bonds, Parent Company Guarantees and Warranties.
- Ensure that all contract documentation and sub-contract documentation is completed and stored centrally.
- Presenting and agreeing the external valuation with the Client's Representative.
- Pricing and agreeing variations with the Client's Representative.
- Prepare and manage key and large risk subcontract accounts from inception to final accounts.
- Subcontract procurement strategy and implementation.
- Ensure the procurement of sub-contractors is in line with the Business Management System and that the packages cover the scope of the works.
- Check and ensure compliance and issuing of timely Payment and Pay less notices to Subcontractors.
- Preparing monthly CVR & VCA reports for presentation to the Business Unit Management.
- Monitoring risk and opportunity schedules and managing risk from Commencement to Completion.
- Contribute to management of life of site cost & revenue forecasts across multi-phase developments.
- As part of project team, help shape long term delivery strategy for project
- Provide input and cost and value engineering advice throughout the design life of the scheme and attend design team meetings.
- Managing and undertake the personal development reviews of associated surveying resources, including training.
- Ensure a proactive approach to dispute avoidance
Skills and Experience required
The successful candidate must have previous experience managing budgets on multiple volume housing developments from inception through to completion. Additional skills required:
- Demonstrable strong account management and commercial experience.
- Strong team player, with the entrepreneurial ability to operate and excel in a changing on- site environment.
- Well-developed analytical, oral and presentation / communication skills.
- Degree qualified preferable.
- Professional membership of MCIOB or RICS preferable.
- Strong in-depth knowledge of groundworks, roads and sewers.
- Training of and understanding of COINs
- Training and understanding of 4p (viewpoint)
The company are offering a competitive salary and additional benefits including company car/car allowance, pension, healthcare, annual bonus scheme and various employee perks.
If you are interested in this opportunity and would like to apply, please contact Deena at Fawkes & Reece on 01204 554 884 for a confidential chat or apply via the link provided