Construction Quality & Cost Assurance Assistant Manager
We’re looking for a detail-driven Construction Quality & Cost Assurance Assistant Manager to ensure our workplace projects meet the highest standards of quality, compliance, and value for money. You’ll play a key role in monitoring construction activities, safeguarding health & safety, and embedding sustainability and accessibility principles throughout delivery.
Salary: £39,825 - £44,250. Locations: Edinburgh, Bristol, Leeds. Hours: Full-time.
Responsibilities
* Monitor construction activities to ensure compliance with design specifications, building regulations, health & safety standards, and promote sustainability, accessibility and safety standards throughout project delivery.
* Conduct site inspections and audits, document findings, and raise issues where necessary.
* Assist in handling handover documentation, post-occupancy reviews and support the implementation of quality control plans and snagging processes.
* Verify quantities and valuations submitted by contractors and suppliers; support cost tracking and reconciliation against project budgets.
* Maintain accurate records of inspections, approvals and change requests; support preparation of reports, dashboards and performance metrics for senior stakeholders.
* Ensure all construction activities meet internal governance standards and external regulatory requirements; support audits and assurance reviews.
* Liaise with integrators, design teams, contractors and workplace experience leads; represent the quality and quantity assurance function in project meetings and site visits.
Qualifications
* Experience in quality assurance: advising peers and suppliers on embedding pre-defined processes and procedures.
* Creativity and innovative solutions: challenge current thinking, experiment and take manageable risks.
* Supplier performance: manage complex supplier queries, promote cost savings and reduce supply chain risk.
* Collaboration: build professional relationships across teams and business areas.
* Values & behaviours: future-focused, integrity, collaborative inclusive environment.
* Data literacy: design, develop and apply data and analytics to drive decision making.
* Business and commercial insight: monitor changes to business and translate impacts to practical actions.
* Technical: cost control, valuations, commercial oversight and quality assurance; strong understanding of construction processes, building regulations, H&S standards.
Additional experience (useful)
* Interpret technical drawings and specifications; familiarity with BIM, IWMS, CAFM.
* Digital transformation in building services: software, automation and AI.
* Agile methodology and tools expertise: Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Confluence and experience leading and working in agile team.
* Adaptability: work at pace, prioritise tasks and adapt to changing requirements.
* Experience managing complex change.
Benefits
* Generous pension contribution up to 15%.
* Annual performance‑related bonus.
* Share schemes including free shares.
* 28 days’ holiday plus bank holidays.
* Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.
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