The Vacancy
Wates Living Space is one of the UK’s leading providers of planned and responsive maintenance services in the social housing sector, maintaining over 500,000 homes nationwide every year. Our leading position within the maintenance sector has enabled the business to realise ambitious strategic growth.
We have an opportunity for a Project Quantity Surveyor to join our Planned team in the Warwick area. Reporting into the Commercial Manager, you will be expected to take accountability for the development, implementation of all pre and post contract strategies, commercial functions and contract reporting.
Working closely with one of our social housing partners on a high-rise refurbishment project so ideally, we are looking for people with experience of this.
Key Accountabilities include:
1. Contribute to project commercial strategies and take ownership for own subcontract packages
2. Conduct site visits, take measurements of works required and price up scoping documents with the schedule of rates as agreed with the client
3. Work with the commercial and operations teams to procure the works packages in a timely manner including producing a procurement programme
4. Make good quality decisions and understand the importance of making profit and maximising opportunities
To be successful in this role you will be a qualified and experienced surveyor with a good work ethic and a confident communicator, able to demonstrate the ability to form and develop relationships with all stakeholders. Ideally you will have experience within social housing/ working within a tier 1 contractor however this is not a must.
You will also Ideally have experience of working on high-rise refurbishment schemes, and fire remedial work schemes.
Work for Wates
Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies. Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.
We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:
Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in, and treated with care.
We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer. We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.
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Inside Housing Development Awards
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2022 Construction News Awards Winner
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Investors in People 2022
GOLD AWARD
Considerate Constructors Schemes (CCS) National Site Awards
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2022 Top 50 Employers for Women
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2022 Working Families Best Practice Awards