Senior Quantity Surveyor – Measom, London

Measom

Job Type: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: From £65,000.00 per year

Job Purpose: 

Commercially responsible to ensure projects are delivered on programme and to budget – generally assigned to work on our larger and/or more complex projects. Responsible for training and mentoring junior employees.

Main Duties & Responsibilities: 

• Advises of any positive or negative differences in anticipated labour costs
• Agrees a valuation schedule with the main contractor if one had not already been agreed
• Issues the CVR each month in line with the reporting schedule and attends CVR meetings
• Attends estimating and handover meeting, participating in setting start and target margins.
• Re-calculates profit margins
• Carries out monthly cost to complete
• Takes responsibility for the Risk Register.
• Notifies the Operations Director of any valuations for which payment is not received; obtains payment status from Finance
• Keeps on top of our sub-contractor contra-charges and issues notices and final account statements plus and retention releases.
• Takes off quantities from drawing.
• Produces and submit Applications for Payment on time each month.
• Checks sub-contractors Applications.
• Reports at internal site progress meeting.
• Ensures all variations are correctly entered by the Labour Entry Clerk into Applications for Payment.
• Prices and submits variations.
• Checks materials are in line with estimate
• Prepares cost budgets and monitors cost spend against these
• Monitors the prelim schedule and report and variances at the CVR meeting and proposes solutions.
• Agrees labour rates with the Commercial Director and implements
• Reviews wages on payment system
• Walks site with PM weekly for progress variations/problems
• Produces sub-contract documentation of sub-contact contracts to be placed.
• Agrees the planned prelims with the Project Manager at the start of the project.
• Agrees the value of variations with the Principle Contractor.
• Monitors NCRs and makes sure these are signed off.
• Makes sure that the contract is being correctly administered from a commercial point of view.
• Chases and agrees certifications, responds if required. Advises the Regional Commercial Manager if these are below expected.
• Notifies Regional Commercial Manager of any certifications not received in accordance with the payment schedule.
• Checks that progress is as expected each week. If it isn’t, suggests appropriate options to the Regional Commercial Director and agrees a course of action.
• Sends EoT letter where required
• Writes and produces extensions of time, prolongations, accelerations, and disruption claims
• Leads and manages direct reports to include the entire employee journey, in accordance with the People Strategy; this will include establishing clear direction and focus, overseeing their work, providing feedback about their performance, appraisals and career planning
• Trains and mentors less experienced staff so that they can carry out their duties effectively, develop core capabilities to enhance their value to the organization and develop their careers.
• Ensures the Company values form the basis of the behaviour of direct reports.

Qualifications & Experience: 

• Qualifications: Minimum NVQ Level 4 or Construction Management/Surveying Degree & CSCS card
• Experience: A minimum of 3 to 5 years working as a Project Quantity Surveyor or Senior Quantity Surveyor within a sub-contracting environment or principle contracting environment.
• Should have been commercially responsibly for projects of over £3 million, preferably for a finishing trade and have been responsible for reporting on the project status in terms of progress / cost / value / risk.
• Prolongation, acceleration, disruption claims

Benefits:

• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee mentoring programme
• Referral programme

Work Location: In person