Senior Quantity Surveyor – Measom, London
Measom

Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: From £65,000.00 per year
Job Purpose:
Commercially responsible to ensure projects are delivered on programme and to budget – generally assigned to work on our larger and/or more complex projects. Responsible for training and mentoring junior employees.
Main Duties & Responsibilities:
- Advises of any positive or negative differences in anticipated labour costs
- Agrees a valuation schedule with the main contractor if one had not already been agreed
- Issues the CVR each month in line with the reporting schedule and attends CVR meetings
- Attends estimating and handover meeting, participating in setting start and target margins.
- Re-calculates profit margins
- Carries out monthly cost to complete
- Takes responsibility for the Risk Register.
- Notifies the Operations Director of any valuations for which payment is not received; obtains payment status from Finance
- Keeps on top of our sub-contractor contra-charges and issues notices and final account statements plus and retention releases.
- Takes off quantities from drawing.
- Produces and submit Applications for Payment on time each month.
- Checks sub-contractors Applications.
- Reports at internal site progress meeting.
- Ensures all variations are correctly entered by the Labour Entry Clerk into Applications for Payment.
- Prices and submits variations.
- Checks materials are in line with estimate
- Prepares cost budgets and monitors cost spend against these
- Monitors the prelim schedule and report and variances at the CVR meeting and proposes solutions.
- Agrees labour rates with the Commercial Director and implements
- Reviews wages on payment system
- Walks site with PM weekly for progress variations/problems
- Produces sub-contract documentation of sub-contact contracts to be placed.
- Agrees the planned prelims with the Project Manager at the start of the project.
- Agrees the value of variations with the Principle Contractor.
- Monitors NCRs and makes sure these are signed off.
- Makes sure that the contract is being correctly administered from a commercial point of view.
- Chases and agrees certifications, responds if required. Advises the Regional Commercial Manager if these are below expected.
- Notifies Regional Commercial Manager of any certifications not received in accordance with the payment schedule.
- Checks that progress is as expected each week. If it isn’t, suggests appropriate options to the Regional Commercial Director and agrees a course of action.
- Sends EoT letter where required
- Writes and produces extensions of time, prolongations, accelerations, and disruption claims
- Leads and manages direct reports to include the entire employee journey, in accordance with the People Strategy; this will include establishing clear direction and focus, overseeing their work, providing feedback about their performance, appraisals and career planning
- Trains and mentors less experienced staff so that they can carry out their duties effectively, develop core capabilities to enhance their value to the organization and develop their careers.
- Ensures the Company values form the basis of the behaviour of direct reports.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Qualifications: Minimum NVQ Level 4 or Construction Management/Surveying Degree & CSCS card
- Experience: A minimum of 3 to 5 years working as a Project Quantity Surveyor or Senior Quantity Surveyor within a sub-contracting environment or principle contracting environment.
- Should have been commercially responsibly for projects of over £3 million, preferably for a finishing trade and have been responsible for reporting on the project status in terms of progress / cost / value / risk.
- Prolongation, acceleration, disruption claims
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee mentoring programme
- Referral programme
Work Location: In person