Quantity Surveyor, civils

Argee Recruit provides a high quality construction focused service, caring for the requirements of employers and job seekers in Civil Engineering, Building and Commercial disciplines in the professional, technical and supervisory areas of the construction industry.

Over 30 years of Construction Industry experience is available for your benefit. Gained in project and site based conditions, strengthened by recruitment industry skills secured through the provision of permanent, contract or freelance staff to schemes that range from internationally renowned developments to regional and local projects. This experience means we are able to confidently handle your career and staffing requirements for long or short term assignments.

Permanent and contract or freelance positions are available in these categories:

• Contracts and Project Managers
• Commercial Managers, Estimators and Quantity Surveyors at all levels
• Construction Managers, Site Managers, Site Agents and Foremen
• Project and Senior Engineers
• Civil, Setting Out, Site and Trainee Engineers
• Structural Engineers and Technicians
• Temporary works coordinators and Design professionals
• Health, Safety and Environmental staff

Salary: £55,000 - £75,000 with package, car allowance, incentives,

Quantity Surveyor. Project QS to work with the Commercial team. Experience in Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering, Groundworks, RC or Sprayed concrete are all useful. Relevant experience and commercial understanding with an organised and enthusiastic attitude are more important than formal qualifications.

A project management or engineering background could also be relevant. A pro-active personality and enthusiasm are important qualities for the role.

Car driver essential
, based in head office, near to Tonbridge.

Quantity Surveyor. You will be working for a, well-established, contractor who is carrying out sprayed concrete and concrete repair work. Project package values from £50k to over £10m. The work is nationwide, but you will be head office based, 5 days per week. Ideally you must have previous experience predominantly in the Civil engineering range of projects. Strong in oral and verbal communication with good commercial understanding and appreciation.

Good IT skills are important, and a good technical engineering knowledge is an advantage.

The Quantity Surveyors role will involve working closely with the construction team and the clients to ensure that commercial elements are identified and correctly charged for.

The ideal person will have enthusiasm in the construction industry and be able to communicate well at all levels. The contractor is very well respected in this niche market and has extremely good working relationships with Contractors and Clients on major projects.

Quantity Surveyor attributes.

You should be enthusiastic with a genuine desire to help the company grow and expand. You must be capable of compiling and working with spreadsheets, accurately recording and charging for variations, identifying changes to the works originally contracted for and costing them out to an agreed schedule of rates. A lot of the work is based on fast turn-around, high volume variations and extras.

The company is involved in working on schemes incorporating:

RC substructure

Retaining structures

Clients and projects are often high profile and include major road, rail and tunnel contracts.