Quantity Surveyor Residential

Quantity Surveyor Residential

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton is looking for a Quantity Surveyor to join their Response Team – Housing Response and Maintenance in Romsey, Southampton.

As a national Property Services contractor focused on people, sustainability, and exceptional client delivery/customer satisfaction, they seek a Quantity Surveyor to share in this ethos; proactively influencing their commercial success long term in the Southampton area, working with their reputable social housing client completing day‑to‑day repairs and voids maintenance works.

Their main customer base is Social Housing and Council/Local Authority, Housing Associations and this is a reactive maintenance contract within the Southampton area. The main criteria is someone with reactive maintenance experience having managed the commercial aspects of this type of contract before. SOR (Schedule of Rate contract) experience and knowledge is a big tick. High volume jobs, analytical and spreadsheet familiarity.

£61,552 inc car allowance (6.7K) so base £54,852 plus a private mileage scheme and fuel card, pension, healthcare, life insurance + profit share (last year 14%).

Benefits package includes:

• Profit share scheme (14% of base salary achieved last year)
• Private mileage scheme and fuel card
• Enhanced employer pension contribution up to 7% or a savings scheme
• Life, medical and permanent health insurance
• 23 days annual leave, buy up to 5 days or sell up to 3 days per year
• Access to the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity for health and wellbeing, including free legal and financial advice
• Annual pay reviews
• Enhanced maternity/paternity pay
• Training and development opportunities
• Trade discounts from preferred suppliers and Specsavers vouchers

As a Quantity Surveyor, you will actively price materials and labour for their responsive repairs workstream using SORs, whilst managing the financial performance of this works to its completion. Focusing on reducing costs, improving efficiencies, and maximising value, you will have real impact on our profitability.

• Being responsible for the financial and technical aspects of the contract – including procurement, managing budget, direct labour targeting, subcontractor management, invoicing, payments, cash flow, and cost control.
• Minimising costs where possible, and maximising value.
• Working with direct labour and subcontractors, ensuring all work issued has labour targets to return agreed profit performance.
• Developing and maintaining open and trusting relationships with the workforce, our customers, subcontractors, suppliers, and our client.
• Producing monthly contract valuations of the units actual deliverables against the projected budget (CVRs).

• Proven experience in a similar commercial or Quantity Surveying role – ideally working on Schedule of Rates (SORs) contract and with social housing clients.
• Proven ability to minimise cost and maximise value, profit, and cash flow.
• Strong IT and Microsoft Excel skills – this is essential.
• Ability to process high volumes of data analysis.
• Experience in working with direct labour and subcontract procurement.

In addition to social housing, they can consider other transferable industries (if you have response/reactive experience) such as retail (supermarket frameworks), highways, telecoms or rail, used to managing high volumes of low value works.