Our client in Brough, East Yorkshire are a construction company with a great reputation who are recruiting an Assistant Quantity Surveyor. They are a construction company who specialise in advanced glass houses, greenhouses, garden centres, horticultural construction, and vertical farming projects. These are high tech projects in a real boom market.
They are currently recruiting an Assistant Quantity Surveying to join their commercial team in Brough. This position will report directly to the Commercial Manager. As an integral team within the business, the quantity surveyors work on a large range of projects varying in budget, size, and complexity, with a key role in managing project costs and profitability throughout the life cycle of a project.
This role will be primarily based at our head office in Doncaster but may require occasional travel to projects. The successful candidate will need to be able to work effectively independently as well as part of a team. This is a varied and hands on role in a fast-paced environment, so it offers a lot of opportunities for development and to expand your knowledge.
The day-to-day duties will include:
* Take accurate and informative briefing notes from clients when required to allow for robust pricing, including check measures and the like.
* Be a key member of the Quantity Surveying team, working with a can-do attitude with a positive outlook conducive of inter-departmental synergy.
* Taking off drawings and producing accurate Bills of Quantities/SoW’s.
* Subcontract and supplier procurement, including detailed analysis.
* Produce and update procurement tracker.
* Monitor, value, capture and agree variations in line with contact requirements.
* Assist in producing valuations in line with contract requirements.
* Producing and present accurate CVR’s.
* Production of accurate and timely final accounts.
Required Skills and Experience
* Confident capable team player
* Ideally post graduate Quantity Surveying experience in a construction-based role
* Some previous experience for a main contractor
* BSc (Hons) in quantity surveying (desired)
* Proficient in MS Excel & IT systems