Quantity Surveyor Surrey
Quantity Surveyor permanent job in Surrey for a Main Contractor paying £50,000-£65,000 p/a salary
Your new company
Specialises in design, new-build, restoration, and refurbishment projects, handling ventures worth up to £30 million. Their portfolio includes luxury living spaces, commercial properties, training facilities, public buildings, and urban regeneration projects. They are committed to sustainability, community impact, and safety, ensuring their projects not only meet but exceed industry standards.
Their values emphasise quality, integrity, and collaboration, making them a trusted name in the construction industry. They strive to create lasting, positive impacts on the communities they serve. Their projects are often to design and build public and commercial buildings delivered on JCT, D&B but more often traditional contracts with some small NEC opportunities.
Your new role
Is to play a central role in ensuring projects are delivered on time and profitable. The quantity surveyor is responsible for ensuring subcontract orders are sent expeditiously and in line with the subcontractors’ procurement schedule, the project is fully valued, and accurate project reports are prepared for management consideration. You will drive the commercial management of construction projects at any one time with the aim of achieving profitable, prompt, and faultless delivery, and ensuring high standards are maintained.
You will be reporting to a Managing Surveyor full-time in the office. The role involves supporting the commercial team by complying with company procedures, liaising with customers and project managers, and managing the commercial and contractual aspects of relationships with customers, consultants, and subcontractors. Responsibilities include measuring, pricing, negotiating, and agreeing on budgets and costs for variations in project scope, ensuring project costs are correct, and raising or resolving queries, as necessary. The position requires attending pre-contract meetings, liaising with a wide range of construction professionals, and ensuring the timely completion of agreed actions.
Additionally, the role involves producing and maintaining up-to-date procurement schedules, compiling and issuing invitations to tender, analysing subcontractor quotations, and making recommendations for the placement of orders. The candidate will also compile subcontract orders for approval, visit sites to measure and value completed works, assess subcontractor payment entitlements, and process payments.
Furthermore, the role includes carrying out reconciliation of cost and value to date/forecast to keep the management team informed of project performance, and working closely with contract and site management staff to support the smooth running of the office and the site, while carrying out other duties as required.
What you’ll need to succeed
Is a Degree, MCIOB, MRICS or similar from a UK-based college or university and have substantial UK-based experience with a main contractor in the building industry. The ideal candidate should possess good IT skills and demonstrate an aptitude for working with numbers, as well as absorbing and analysing technical information.
They should have a flexible approach to work and be initiative-taking. You will have the right to work in the UK and have references from a UK-based employer. You will have a high level of communication, excellent people skills and live in the Surrey area.
Candidates from outside the area need not apply as there is no relocation allowance. This is a permanent vacancy, so freelance candidates need not apply.
What you’ll get in return
Is a permanent appointment as a Quantity Surveyor Surrey with a salary ranging from £50,000-£65,000, an average of £55,000 plus paid holidays, pension, and other corporate benefits. A supported career structure and professional development would be guaranteed.
What you need to do now
If you’re interested in this role, click ‘apply now’ to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now at Hays Crawley 01293 220402.