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

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