Senior Quantity Surveyor

If you're looking for a role where you can make a tangible impact and be involved in every stage of the development process, we’d love to hear from you.

The key tasks of the role will include:

• Working as the sole QS within a small, close-knit team, and liaising with all members of the project team, including but not limited to design, construction, technical, sales and finance.
• Liaising with the technical team and design consultants so as to ensure design concepts and proposals are developed in line with the approved budgets.
• Identifying risks and opportunities, and able to find viable solutions, while maintaining high standards, creating a quality product.
• Assist in the creation of Development Budgets, and thereafter managing the approved Budget and package breakdowns.
• Maintaining and enhancing key subcontractor relationships, while finding and creating new ones.
• To establish subcontract sources early in the programme so that they can contribute to the design in terms of value engineering and alternative solutions.
• Ensure procurement of all subcontract elements of the development are completed timeously.
• Preparing scope of works and trade packages, including labour only targets.
• Preparing selected tender list for approval.
• Subcontract tendering.
• Holding and taking minutes of Subcontract Post-Tender and Pre-Order Meetings.
• Preparing subcontract documentation.
• Sending all Contract Drawings and any revised drawings as issued to subcontractors.
• Weekly and monthly sites measurement, preparing & agreeing valuations, and raising subcontractor payments and ensuring associated documentation are issued in a timely manner.
• Monitoring changes so as to continuously identify the status of costs.
• Preparation of cost reports as required.
• Forecasting value of design variations.
• Agreeing variations with subcontractor.
• Producing subcontractor instruction/variation reports.
• Agreeing final account with subcontractors.
• Fully completing monthly cost reports for approval.
• Regularly site attendance, at least weekly, to monitor spend and progress.
• Attending Design Team Meetings as required.
• Attending subcontractor progress meetings as required.
• Valuing customer change variations and providing client extras quotes.

Experience required:

• Ideally Quantity Surveying degree level educated, with 10+ years housebuilding / developer experience.
• Proactive, self-driven, with a positive outlook.
• Competent and able to work independently as the sole QS within the business.
• Flexible and reliable.
• Credible, and comfortable in dealing with a wide variety of stakeholders.
• Team player and good communicator.
• Immediate start available.
• Competitive package and benefits available to the successful candidate.

This is an opportunity to join a successful company offering long-term stable employment to the right candidate.

How to apply

Please apply with a CV by email to info@mahousebuilders.com