Quantity Surveyor

Quantity Surveyor – Middlesbrough TS17

Salary: £59,000 per annum (includes £6,700 car allowance) plus pension, healthcare and profit share (9% last year).

Our client, a leading property services company with over 75 years of experience, invites an experienced Quantity Surveyor to join their Response Team (Housing Response and Maintenance) in Middlesbrough.

• Price materials and labour for responsive repairs work streams using Schedules of Rates (SORs), managing the financial performance of each work to completion.
• Analyse and manipulate data with advanced Excel skills to identify cost‑saving opportunities and deliver efficiencies across contracts.
• Manage the financial and technical aspects of contracts, including procurement, budgeting, direct labour targeting, subcontractor management, invoicing, payments, cash flow and cost control.
• Minimise costs and maximise value and profit while ensuring all work meets labour targets for agreed performance.
• Develop and maintain open and trusting relationships with the workforce, customers, subcontractors, suppliers and the client.
• Produce monthly contract valuations of the unit's actual deliverables against the projected budget (CVRs).
• Deal with direct labour, timesheets, CVRs/Valuations and sub‑contractor engagement.
• Live within easy travel of the Middlesbrough area.

• Proven experience in a commercial Quantity Surveying role, ideally with SOR contracts and social housing clients.
• Strong ability to minimise cost, maximise value, profit and cash flow.
• Excellent IT and Microsoft Excel skills; ability to process high volumes of data analysis.
• Experience with direct labour and subcontractor procurement.
• Formal qualifications or surveyor training.
• Experience in reactive maintenance and high‑volume jobs with analytical/spreadsheet focus.

• Company profit share scheme (9% of base salary last year).
• Private mileage scheme and fuel card.
• Enhanced employer pension contribution of up to 7% or a savings scheme.
• Life, medical and permanent health insurance.
• Annual leave with the option to buy up to 5 days or sell up to 3 days per year.
• Access to the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity (free legal and financial advice).
• Annual pay reviews.
• Enhanced maternity/paternity pay.
• Training and development opportunities.
• Trade discounts from preferred suppliers for you, friends and family, and Specsavers vouchers.