Senior Quantity Surveyor

To take full ownership and responsibility for the project, ensuring commercial success and financial sustainability of projects. Your role involves leading site meetings, steering cost control, managing head contract and subcontractor responsibilities, whilst ensuring value for money and contractual compliance.

As the sole Senior Quantity Surveyor, you will be the key commercial lead, supporting project delivery teams, liasing with clients and stakeholders and ensuring robust financial reporting and forecasting for the project.

Through effective communication and document control, you will uphold our company values of Integrity, Transparency, Commitment and Passion, while fostering a learning culture and supervising commercial requirements.

• Lead in producing and delivering high-quality communication and reporting.
• Actively drive site meetings with a proactive, solution-oriented approach for commercial input and decision making.
• Provide strategic guidance to Project Managers and Site Managers, ensuring robust commercial support to the team.
• Oversee and handle contractual matters with Integrity, demonstrating honesty, transparency, and fairness at a senior level.
• Promote and enforce company procedures, embodying a Commitment to excellence in all areas of the business.
• Model our value of Passion for quality work, ensuring work is executed with attention to detail and in a timely manner.

• Oversee and ensure the commercial success of projects, displaying passion and commitment to excellence.
• Present project financial performance, including forecasting costs, incoming revenue, and profit margins.
• Produce detailed cost valuation reconciliation reports and present to your Managing Surveyor on a monthly basis.
• Manage the creation and maintenance of project cash flow reports.
• Review and approve head contract & subcontractor valuations, variations, and final accounts.
• Directly oversee subcontractor liabilities, identify risks within the project and strategise to maximise project value

• Oversee the preparation and submission of Head Contract Valuations in a timely manner.
• Be responsible for reviewing the Contract Pricing Document/Contract Sum Agreement in depth, and factor into preparation of subcontract orders and the preparation of ACT valuations.
• Oversee the preparation and submission of Variation Orders, demonstrating adherence to "the ACT way" by delivering the final account for the project once all subcontractor accounts are settled / understood.
• Direct cost-related changes communication to the client team, ensuring timeliness and clarity.
• Provide clear guidance on Head Contract Obligations, risks and opportunities.
• Proactively identify, monitor, and formally notify the Client Team / Contract Administrator of any delays impacting the progress of works. Lead the preparation, drafting, and submission of robust Extension of Time (EOT) claims in strict accordance with the JCT contract mechanisms, ensuring all entitlement to time and associated loss and expense is fully protected.
• Produce and maintain a comprehensive schedule of Contractual Warranties upon handover of the project from Pre-Construction. Ensure all required subcontractor Professional Indemnity (PI) insurance levels, bonds, and collateral warranties are verified, executed, and returned to ACT in strict alignment with the main contract requirements.

• Undertake the procurement of subcontractor packages, ensuring alignment with the project procurement schedule requirements and profitability targets.
• Establish and manage contractual agreements with sub-contractors, ensuring adherence to contract terms and project timelines.
• Complete and issue subcontractor valuations based on site work and manage the subcontractor variation account.
• Develop strategic relationships with subcontractors and guide the risk profile assessment through credit checks and insurances review.
• Ensure interim payments are timely received for upstream valuations and lead meetings to agree variations and obtain subcontractor insurances.
• Lead Subcontractor Pre-start meetings and oversee mid project…