Senior Quantity Surveyor

Taylor Wimpey is recruiting a Senior Quantity Surveyor in Leatherhead to manage the commercial work on housing developments through to completion. The role includes providing cost information for proposed land purchases and monitoring expenditure as developments proceed. The surveyor will reconcile infrastructure budgets across development phases, prepare site budgets and maintain priced quantities.

Responsibilities include:

• subcontract procurement
• payments
• variations
• dayworks
• final accounts

The appointment also covers housing association contracts and valuations, public works adoption and commercial support when dealing with defects, including contractual cost recovery.

Cost reporting includes:

• allocating expenditure to plots
• analysing profit
• explaining subcontractor cost changes
• forecasting final accounts

The surveyor will attend sites and project meetings and help ensure that the surveying team follows consistent procedures. Applicants need extensive house building experience, an industry-related business qualification and knowledge of building regulations, NHBC requirements and health and safety. The employer also asks for management and negotiation skills, an understanding of contract law and competence with IT.

Experience using COINS and membership of CIOB or RICS are preferred.

The benefits listed include:

• employer-funded life insurance
• pension contributions
• options for tailoring the benefits package