About The Service
Due to a service area restructure an excellent opportunity has arisen within the new Design, Construction and Maintenance (DCM) Team for a qualified Senior Quantity Surveyor to lead, manage and develop a team of quantity surveyors.
The newly established DCM Team is responsible for designing and delivering a wide range of building related projects across the Council’s school and corporate building estates. The Team adopts a multi discipline approach to ensure that the Council’s broad range of policy objectives are fully considered. In this regard, the Council’s sustainability, energy, health and safety, waste, carbon reduction goals along with its social inclusion, community benefits, wellbeing and accessibility objectives are all considered and applied to deliver projects on time, within cost and to the required quality.
About the job
The primary purpose of the role is to ensure the effective undertaking and completion of quantity surveying professional services in support of building related technical feasibility, assessment and design services, and proactively assist with the delivery of a range of building related projects to a consistently high standard in accordance with the customer’s requirements.
The post-holder will lead an internal team of quantity surveyors to deliver the required outcomes, and also where required for capacity or technical reasons, assist with the external commissioning of professional services and construction work to external organisations.
What We Are Looking For From You
We are looking for a qualified Senior Quantity Surveyor (Chartered or equivalent) with good experience in the line management of teams responsible for delivering professional services in relation to building related projects across a variety of building types including schools.
The successful candidate will also have:
good knowledge of relevant guidelines, standards, methods of measurement, and the like applicable to building construction and management;
sound knowledge of professional services and building contracts and their application;
practical experience in processing contract payments and contractual claims;
good communication skills, both written and verbal, and
strong personal organisational skills with an ability to manage a diverse and demanding workload within a constantly changing environment.
Additional information
This vacancy is suitable for post share.
A full and valid driving licence is an essential requirement for this role.
Due to the current interim working arrangements, we are unable to provide recruitment packs or accept application forms via the post.
We welcome applications both in English and Welsh. Applications received in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than English applications.
For an informal discussion and further information on this role, please contact:
Mian Saleem, Operational Manager on Tel: 07773473502 or by email: msaleem@cardiff.gov.uk or
Andrew Wheten, Project Manager on Tel: 07977443984 or by email awheten@cardiff.gov.uk
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Job Reference: ECO00709
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £45,091.00-£48,226.00 per year
Work Location: In person