Senior Quantity Surveyor - Social Housing​/Planned Works​/Retrofit

Senior Quantity Surveyor - Social Housing / Planned Works / Retrofit

M6 / M5 Corridor | Stoke to Cheltenham / Coventry | £55,000 - £65,000 + Package

We are recruiting for an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor to join a major national construction and regeneration business with a significant and growing workload across the Midlands.

The position will cover the western side of the region, broadly following the M6/M5 corridor from Stoke through the West Midlands and down towards Cheltenham, including Coventry and surrounding areas.

This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially strong Senior Quantity Surveyor with experience across social housing, planned maintenance and/or retrofit programmes.

Working across a portfolio of existing and upcoming projects, you will take commercial responsibility for schemes from procurement and pre-start through delivery, final account and completion.

Projects will predominantly sit within the social housing and regeneration sector, including planned investment programmes, refurbishment, energy-efficiency improvements and retrofit works.

Typical responsibilities will include:

• Full commercial management of projects and programmes
• Procurement and management of subcontractors
• Cost planning, forecasting and reporting
• Applications, valuations and payments
• Managing variations and change
• Monitoring project costs and commercial performance
• Contract administration
• Risk and opportunity management
• Working closely with operational and client teams
• Managing subcontractor accounts
• Final accounts and project close-out
• Supporting and mentoring junior commercial team members

The ideal candidate will already have strong Quantity Surveying experience within social housing or planned works.

Experience across retrofit, decarbonisation, energy-efficiency programmes or high-rise refurbishment/retrofit would be particularly attractive.

You will ideally have:

• Strong social housing experience
• Planned maintenance / planned works experience
• Retrofit experience ideally
• High-rise retrofit experience would be a significant bonus
• Strong subcontractor procurement and management skills
• Excellent cost reporting and forecasting ability
• Good contractual and commercial knowledge
• The confidence to manage client relationships
• Experience taking commercial responsibility for multiple projects or work streams
• A relevant Quantity Surveying / Commercial Management qualification

This is a chance to join a large, established business with a significant presence within housing, regeneration and partnership-led construction.

With retrofit and improvement programmes becoming an increasingly important part of the social housing market, the role offers excellent long-term prospects for a Senior QS who already understands this environment.

Salary: £55,000 - £65,000 + package

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