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🔍 We're Hiring: Quantity Surveyor
📍 Location: Harlow
🏢 Company: JCA – Part of Mitie
💼 Your Role:
This is a senior-level opportunity to take full financial and commercial ownership of a portfolio of contracts. You'll play a key role in ensuring JCA delivers contracted and additional services cost-effectively, while maintaining compliance with legal and contractual obligations.
As a Quantity Surveyor, you'll work closely with delivery teams to manage monthly valuations, forecasts, and variations, and ensure contracts are administered accurately and efficiently. Your role will also involve financial reporting, risk management, and identifying opportunities to increase revenue and margin. You'll be instrumental in maintaining strong client relationships and supporting contract retention and growth.
In addition, you'll contribute to pre- and post-contract cost studies, support tender preparation, and manage subcontractor engagement from enquiry through to completion. You'll also oversee financial close-out of additional works and ensure all records and systems are maintained to company standards.
🛠️ Key Responsibilities:
1. Lead financial forecasting, valuations, and contract administration.
2. Manage contract performance, risk mitigation, and compliance.
3. Oversee supply chain and subcontractor engagement from enquiry to completion.
4. Support estimating and tendering processes with robust cost analysis.
5. Ensure accurate reporting and financial close-out of additional works.
6. Maintain excellent client relationships and contribute to contract retention.
🎯 What You'll Bring:
7. HND/Degree in Quantity Surveying, Construction, or Engineering.
8. MRICS accreditation and relevant CSCS card.
9. Strong leadership in line with JCA's brand image
10. Analytical, and negotiation skills.
11. Proficiency in tools like SharePoint, Dynamics CRM, Excel, Asta Powerproject.
12. Experience in SME environments and broad business understanding.
13. Knowledge of statutory requirements and methods within the construction and engineering industry.
14. Valid UK driving licence.
🌟 Why JCA?
JCA is a multi-faceted engineering services and construction business, specialising in the development of buildings and facilities with business-critical engineering systems. We deliver bespoke solutions across design, construction, fit-out, and maintenance—always with transparency, integrity, and excellence as standard
We're proud to lead our industry in service and innovation through engineering and business excellence. Our collaborative approach spans four core areas; Engineering Projects, Service & Maintenance, Interior Fit Out, and Design & Consultancy.
At JCA, we keep our clients' needs at the heart of everything we do.
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Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Dan Dyke at .