We are offering an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated individual to join our Commercial team as a Quantity Surveyor. This is an excellent opportunity to gain invaluable experience and to progress your career with a highly reputable construction company, within a high standards and high rewards environment.
Responsibilities
- Regular site visits and liaising with the production team.
- Preparing and reviewing tenders with estimators and assisting with understanding the client's requirements to offer value engineering.
- Providing early cost advice to clients on variations and ensuring only authorised variations are undertaken.
- Offering technical advice on drawings and ensuring each projects have the correct documentation.
- Managing the end-to-end commercial aspects of the assigned projects to maximise value and collaborating with the Finance and Procurement departments accordingly.
- Ensuring all commercial accountabilities are undertaken in a timely manner, with a high degree of accuracy and measure.
- Analysing rates & prices and agreement of variations and / or compensation events as required.
- Identification and analysis of potential debt risks and negotiating financial reconciliation with third parties to provide reasonable solutions.
- Forecasting monthly and annual profit figures ensuring figures are maintained throughout the lifetime of the project.
- Understanding the principles of safety on sites and projects.
- Supporting the safety Director and safety team in the application of safety policy and practice.
- Ensuring that any safety concerns are addressed immediately with the support of the safety team and Directors as appropriate.
- Building strong working relationships with clients including social networking.
- Allocating work to sub-contractors including assistance with procurement when required.
Qualifications
- GCSE Minimum 7 A-C / 5-9 including math?s and English.
- Minimum 3 A-Levels at Grade B and above or equivalent BTEC.
- HNC Level 4 Qualification in Construction/Building or equivalent.
- Relevant experience as a Quantity Surveyor.
- Excellent computer skills, including Word and Excel.
- Effective oral and written communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrate an extremely high level of confidentiality.
- Excellent organizational skills.
- Must be able to identify and resolve problems in a timely manner.
- Must be able to gather and analyse information skillfully.
- Must be highly motivated and be willing to work hard.