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Senior Quantity Surveyor

Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited
Posted 8 days ago, valid for 6 days
Location

Derby, Derbyshire DE23 8BA

Contract type

Full Time

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  • Join a leading UK contractor with over 100 years of experience in the construction industry, specializing in various building projects.
  • The role involves managing project status reports, cost control, and supporting the Contracts/Project Manager with significant project issues.
  • Candidates must have a QS Degree or equivalent, previous experience in a similar role, and strong commercial awareness.
  • The position offers a salary of £60,000 along with a car allowance, 26 days of holidays, and additional benefits.
  • Professional development and training opportunities are also provided for successful candidates.

Your new companyJoin a leading UK contractor with over 100 years' experience in the construction industry. This company has grown from a small family-run business to now employing over 600 people nationwide. This company specialises in new build, fit out, refurbishment and remodelling, extensions, modular buildings in the commercial and residential space in live and non-live environments.

Your new role

  • Cooperate and engage with the Project / Contracts Manager and the project teams
  • Manage the project status report in conjunction with the Contracts / Project Manager
  • Forecast cash on an accurate and timely basis
  • Manage all cost-control aspects of the projects, ensuring the use of appropriate cost reporting systems.
  • Support the Contracts / Project Manager to ensure that all significant project issues and correspondence and all necessary contractual processes have been observed
  • Support the Contracts / Project Manager in providing monthly reports to the customer
  • Measure / value / negotiate / check as necessary all subcontract interim and final account applications
  • Assist in the preparation of 'claims' or other means of dispute management to correct an imbalance of cost and value.
  • Take off quantities from drawings and provide sufficient information to enable tenders to be prepared from those quantities.
  • Prepare subcontract enquiries including formulating the tender list in consultation with the wider management team
  • Negotiate subcontract packages to deliver the most favourable outcome for Seddon.

What you'll need to succeed

  • Previous experience in a similar role
  • Must have a QS Degree or equivalent
  • Good data interrogation skills
  • Must have commercial awareness with experience in commercial contracting
  • Experience of managing accounts
  • Good re-measurement skills
  • Be proficient in several Microsoft software packages, such as (but not limited to) Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
  • Full UK driving licence

What you'll get in return

  • £60,000 Salary + Car allowance.
  • 26 Days Holidays.
  • Pension Scheme.
  • Private Health Care, Free Parking, Free Wellbeing Initiatives, Flexible Working.
  • Professional Development & Training Opportunities.

What you need to do nowIf you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.