Senior Quantity Surveyor

Key Responsibilities

• Complete the Payment Application and Valuation process for the contracts/projects within your division, with assistance within the commercial team.
• Facilitate problem solving with invoicing and receiving of payment.
• Negotiate and agree Final Accounts.
• Identify, price, justify and negotiate variations. Technical expertise within the company is available where necessary to assist with this.

• Ability to gain detailed understanding of a scope of work, to ensure it is adhered to.
• Review and negotiate contracts, both with clients and supply chain.
• Develop and optimise Activity Schedules, WBS or BOQ to suit the specific project.
• Contribute to tenders, particularly review of contract documents, from time to time.

• Extract, adjust and organise information from software programs to input into existing Monthly Reporting processes.
• At times problem solve or improve the cashflow forecasting to ensure accuracy and relevance.
• Provide, or develop provision of, commercial information as requested by senior management from time to time.

• Facilitate supply chain payments ensure contractual responsibilities are met.
• Engage with supply chain to tender and subcontract specialist trades.

• Meet all contractual and internal commercial deadlines.
• Maximising financial position on each account.
• Ensure Up-to-date and valid income and expenditure forecasting.
• Identify and challenge resources and costs.

• Bachelor's or higher degree in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, Engineering or similar qualification.
• A minimum of 5 years experience within the UK construction industry.
• A minimum of 5 years experience in quantity surveying or other similar commercial management role/s.
• A minimum of 1 year experience providing or managing hard fabric and/or structural trades.
• In depth knowledge of construction contracts, particularly JCT suite, and a good understanding of construction law, disputes and subcontracting.
• Excellent communication, both oral and written. Can articulate technical or contractual information clearly and succinctly.
• Responsibility for contracts they are allocated, to ensure all tasks necessary to get best outcome commercially are being done correctly, by themselves or others.
• Eagerness to learn, and assist in implementing, new software or processes to improve personal or company performance.
• Proven ability to successfully engage with clients and build relationships.
• Ability to work under pressure and deliver results.
• Strong analytical, problem solving and critical thinking skills.

This is a fulltime office-based role at our Perivale Head Quarters in west London. There will be visits to sites/meetings across London, approximately monthly, for which travel costs will be reimbursed.

Typical hours of work will be 8am until 5pm Monday to Friday.