Join Our Team as a Senior Quantity Surveyor!
Are you a forward-thinking Surveyor with a passion for challenging the norm and driving innovation in the construction industry? Wates invites you to become part of our dynamic team, where we deliver high-profile, technically complex projects across multiple sectors. This is your chance to make a real impact, elevate your career, and work on groundbreaking projects alongside a supportive and diverse team.
Why Choose Wates?
At Wates, we reimagine places for people to thrive. We’re not just offering a job; we’re providing a platform for you to bring fresh ideas, redefine standards, and grow within a company that values talent and ambition. Our inclusive environment encourages collaboration and innovation, ensuring that your contributions will shape the future of construction.
Your Role and Responsibilities
As a Senior Quantity Surveyor at Wates, you will play a pivotal role in the success of our projects by leading the commercial aspects and ensuring their seamless execution. Your responsibilities will include:
* Leadership & Strategy: Manage the project’s commercial team and take accountability for all pre- and post-contract strategies, commercial functions, and contract reporting.
* Value Creation: Collaborate with clients and industry experts to deliver added value, ensure compliance, and uphold best practices while driving commercial viability.
* Key Deliverables:
o Oversee procurement strategies, sub-contract orders, and supply chain management.
o Handle measurements, valuations, contractual notices, and change valuations.
o Complete and submit monthly cost reports, progress updates, and both internal and external tender strategies.
* Financial Oversight: Maintain positive project cash flow through upstream/downstream valuations and deliver accurate final accounts for main and sub-contracts.
What’s in It for You?
* Competitive salary & profit share scheme
* Flexible working arrangements
* Car Allowance / Company Car (subject to Role/Grade)
* Travel covered to any of our sites (subject to HMRC advisory rates)
* Extensive corporate benefits including:
o Private Medical
o Pension with 8% employer contribution
o Health and Wellness programme
o 26 days holidays + bank holidays
* Excellent range of learning and development activities to support your career progression.
* Industry-leading family leave benefits, including 26 weeks fully paid maternity and 12 weeks fully paid paternity.
Ready to Build the Future?
If you’re ready to redefine what’s possible in construction and take your career to the next level, we want to hear from you! Join Wates, and together, let’s create tomorrow.
Apply Now to Make Your Mark!
About 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 recognized as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer. Our recruitment processes ensure that no one is treated less favorably due to an offending background.
Join us in making a difference in the construction industry!