Quantity Surveyor
Department: Commercial
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Bath, Somerset
Description
Berkeley Group builds homes and neighbourhoods across London, Birmingham and the South of England. We revive underused land, creating welcoming, sustainable and nature‑rich places where communities thrive and where people of all ages and backgrounds enjoy a great quality of life.
We specialise in long‑term brownfield regeneration, focusing on challenging and complex sites that are beyond the scope of conventional homebuilders. We are highly collaborative, working with councils and communities to create a shared vision and to unlock a mix of social, environmental, economic and commercial value that benefits all our stakeholders.
Our passion for quality and design underpins everything we do. All Berkeley homes are created with care, expertise and relentless attention to detail.
What you’ll be doing
We are seeking a Quantity Surveyor to join the project team at Bath Gasworks – a landmark brownfield regeneration delivering 600 new homes, alongside potential additional social housing, a restaurant, café and nursery.
Delivered across a minimum of four phases, with the overall programme extending through to Autumn 2030.
This is not a maintenance scheme or a late‑stage commercial role. This is an opportunity to shape a development from its early phases through to completion.
* Preparation of reports as required.
* Identifying risks and opportunities.
* Understanding the approved Budget and package breakdowns.
* Liaising with the technical team and design consultants so as to ensure design concepts and proposals are developed in line with the approved budgets and procurement tracker.
* Monitoring changes so as to continuously identify the status of costs.
* Liaising with all members of the project team, including but not limited to construction, technical, sales, finance, customer service and estate management colleagues.
* Ensure procurement of required subcontract elements of the development are completed in accordance with the company requirements and sustainability objectives.
* Preparing scope of works and trade packages.
* Preparing selected tender list for approval.
* Preparing tender list through to producing a tender recommendation.
* Holding and taking minutes of Subcontract Post‑Tender and Pre‑Order Meetings.
* Preparing subcontract documentation.
* Raising subcontractor payments and ensuring associated notices and documentation are issued in a timely manner.
* Sending agreed number of copies of all Contract Drawings and any revised drawings as issued to subcontractors.
* Forecasting value of design variations.
* Agreeing variations with subcontractor.
* Assisting Project Manager with financial implications of site progress decisions.
* Preparing and approving site instructions.
* Producing subcontractor instruction/variation reports.
* Agreeing final account with subcontractors.
* Fully completing or imputing as required into monthly cost reports for approval.
* Monitoring preliminary expenditure / forecasts on a weekly / monthly basis for the purpose of preparing cost reports with Project Manager.
* Monitoring fee expenditure / forecasts on a weekly / monthly basis for the purpose of preparing cost reports with Technical Manager.
* Monitoring material / Purchase Ledger expenditure / forecasts on a weekly / monthly basis with the Buying Department.
* Provide cost data as required to estimating department to assist in the pricing of future contracts / phases.
* Attending Design Team Meetings as required.
* Attending subcontractor progress meetings as required.
* Valuing customer change variations.
What you’ll bring
Technical Competencies
* Ideally Quantity Surveying or Construction degree level educated with industry experience.
* Preferably membership of a professional body (CIOB, RICS).
Person Specification
* Proactive, self‑driven, results‑oriented with a positive outlook.
* Keen to deliver exceptional customer service.
* An effective leader, motivator and mentor.
* Flexible and reliable.
* Credible, and comfortable in dealing with a wide variety of stakeholders.
* Reliable, tolerant, and determined.
* Team player.
* Empathic communicator, able to see things from the other person's point of view.
* Well‑presented.
Why join us?
* 25 days annual leave, increasing with service to 33 days.
* Health and wellbeing benefits including Private Medical Insurance.
* Lifestyle benefits including access to an online discount platform.
* Berkeley Foundation volunteer day.
* Private pension plan.
* Group life assurance.
The standard default full‑time working hours in the office are 8am‑5pm with core working hours 9am‑4pm.
Internal applicants: If you’re an internal applicant, please ensure you’ve informed your line manager of your intention to apply for this position.
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