Role overview

ID: 2024-5983
Entity: Vistry
Region: Vistry Cornwall South West
Department: Commercial
Contract Type: Permanent - Full Time
Job Location: Plymouth, Devon
Date Posted: 15.10.2024

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our team within Vistry Cornwall South West, at our Sherford site in Plymouth. As our Senior Quantity Surveyor, you will be responsible for managing all costs relating to new build residential developments. Your focus is to minimise the costs of a project and enhance value for money, whilst still achieving the required standards and quality.

Let’s cut to the chase, what’s in it for you...

Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
Company car, car allowance or travel allowance
Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Private Healthcare
Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
Competitive contributory pension scheme
Life assurance – 4 x your annual salary
Share incentive schemes
Employee rewards portal with many more benefits...

In return, what we would like from you...

Behave in line with our company values – Integrity, Caring and Quality
HNC / HND in Surveying or equivalent
Proven experience as a PQS / SQS / Commercial lead working within a residential house builder (dependent on position level)
Experience maybe gained from a similar position or promotion
A good understanding or building regulations and legal obligations
A good knowledge or construction methods and materials
Strong mathematical and IT ability
Ability to assess and analyse information
Good business sense
Good understanding of budget management
Negotiating and networking skills
Excellent communications skills
Able to work under pressure, and accept criticism of work
Good team working skills
Accurate with an eye for detail
A methodical approach
Willing to work extra to meet deadlines as and when the business needs require it

Desirable...

Degree in Surveying or similar
Working towards being a Member of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), or Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)

More about the Senior Quantity Surveyor role...

Maintain a record of current build costs & rates and liaise with the Senior Estimator to ensure all records are current.

Attend specification meetings to confirm site specific specification requirements from Sales and the latest applicable build regulations.

Attend the site pre-start meeting to receive construction issue drawings and determine build and sales strategy.

Compile tender packages for all sub-contract trades and despatch in accordance with Commercial Best Practice Manual.

Receive tenders and qualify. Compile analysis sheet for each trade comparing tender levels with CV1/CV2 estimates and latest management plan.

Compile and present CV2 tender summary sign-off in accordance with parameters determined in the Commercial Best Practice Manual. Compile and present CV1 tender summary sign-off in accordance with parameters determined in the Commercial Best Practice manual. Coordinate the activities of the Material Buyer and Company Estimator to achieve CV1 and CV2 sign-off.

Obtain authorisation to ‘let’ all sub-contract orders valued over thresholds as noted in Commercial Best Practice Manual.

Place and issue sub-contract orders in accordance with Group Policy and Commercial Best Practice to budget and within programme requirements.

Attend and minute all sub-contract order adjudication meetings.

Compile reports on contract letting vs. estimate for each site periodically, as required.

Liaise with build department on sub-contractors’ performance and compliance with order conditions.

Ability to deal with complex consortium sites and attend relevant meetings.

Attend and project team meetings as required.

Complete sub-contract orders to accord with site programmed build requirements in accordance with Group Policy and Group Rebate schemes and fully adjudicate prior to issue of documentation.

Set up and regularly review with the site management team the PPQA tick sheet to facilitate sub-contract contract work payment.

To liaise with company management and provide all necessary forecast and site budget information to meet the business’s reporting requirements.

Attend a monthly cost valuation meeting.

Control and report post contract cost movements per development every month. Update CV1 and CV2 site specific reports and provide details of all “unscheduled” and “scheduled” order revisions i.e. Site Instructions and site purchase orders. To provide such monthly reporting as required by the Commercial Manager.

Review professional fee provisions and statutory service cost, and credits, with the technical department.

Ensure invoices/applications for payments are processed in accordance with Bovis Homes Standard Terms and Conditions of Contract.

Maintain a half yearly site reserve list.

Issue Payment Withhold Notices, where a contractor application, or part thereof, is in dispute in accordance with Construction Act.

Immediately advise management of notification of impending claim or legal action arising from a disputed claim or payment from a Sub-Contractor/service provider.

Where necessary, determine a sub-contract order in accordance with Standard Terms and Conditions of Employment and liaise with Build Department in this respect.

Diligently use the Bovis Homes construction system to manage site project administration, including orders, variations, valuations, etc.

Assist in the regular review of materials on-site and material valuations.

Agree and process all sales variation requests, including works to show homes, stock plots and sales incentive works in accordance with group procedures.

Properly categorise on the construction system “unscheduled” and “scheduled” order amendments.

Settle all variation invoices/applications for payment in accordance with Bovis Homes Standard Terms and Conditions of Contract.

Process groundwork’s payments/applications for payment using the Bovis Homes AGA payment system as outlined in Commercial Best Practice Manual.Ensure the collection of retention against all sub-contract or