Quantity Surveyor

Quantity Surveyor – Refurb & Conservation | Central London (a stones throw from Charing X)

For anyone who’s realised “existing conditions” usually means brace yourself.

Hands-on QS role with full commercial responsibility – valuations, variations, budgets, final accounts. No hiding behind spreadsheets… although there will still be plenty of those.

Projects are refurbishment / conservation led – listed buildings, mansion blocks (S20), high-spec commercial.
£150k–£2m on paper, usually a bit more once the building has its say.

Expect:
• Tight access
• Live sites
• Drawings that are more of a suggestion
• And uncovering things no one priced for (but everyone’s now very interested in)

Clients include CBRE, BNP, Cushman – so it’s well run, but not immune to the usual fun.

They’re after an intermediate–senior QS who’s commercially sharp but also knows how things actually get built.
Trade background helps — someone who won’t panic at a scaffold ladder and can count bricks without turning it into a desktop exercise.

Refurb/conservation experience useful, but not essential.

What tends not to land well:
• CVs that read like short-term site diaries
• Looking for an “easy” number on straightforward jobs (these aren’t)
• Titles that have moved faster than experience
• Or expectations that haven’t quite caught up with time spent on site

30-year contractor, ~£13m turnover, steady pipeline. In-house trades, specialist subs, minimal layers – you’ll be left to get on with it (in a good way).

Probably suits someone who’s bored of pricing jobs perfectly that were never going to go that way anyway.

Happy to have a discreet conversation:

Spencer Wade

(phone number removed)

spencer @ borneltd. com