Our client in Romsey, Southampton are seeking a Quantity Surveyor to join their Response Team - ( Housing Response and Maintenance ).
As a national Property Services contractor focused on people, sustainability, and exceptional client delivery/customer satisfaction, they seek a Quantity Surveyor to truly share in this ethos; proactively influencing their commercial success long term in Romsey, working with their reputable social housing client completing day to day repairs and voids maintenance works.
Key highlights of the role include:
* They have been an established and leading property services company for over 75 years,‑ based across England and Wales, in over 18 locations and 32 Business Units, so very well established.
* Their main customer base is Social Housing and Council/ Local Authority, Housing Associations and this is a reactive maintenance contract within Southampton area.
* The main criteria is someone with reactive maintenance experience – having managed the commercial aspects of this type of contract before. SOR (schedule of rate contract) experience and knowledge is a big tick. High volume jobs, analytical and spreadsheet familiarity.
* £61,552 inc car allowance (6.7K) so base £54,852 plus a private mileage scheme and fuel card, pension, healthcare, life insurance + profit share (last year 14%).
* Of course this type of experience working on a social housing contract is the goal but they can consider other transferrable industries (if you have response/reactive experience) for example retail (supermarket frameworks), highways, even telecoms or rail – so used to managing high volumes of low value works.
Working collaboratively with your operational and commercial teams to make things happen together, you will go further with them, enabling a prosperous career with opportunities to develop, within a stable but organically growing business, holding people at its core.
Benefits
* Company profit share scheme (14% of base salary achieved last year)
* Private mileage scheme and a fuel card
* Enhanced employer pension contribution of up to 7% or a savings scheme
* Life, Medical and Permanent Health Insurance
* 23 days Annual leave, with the option to buy up to 5 days or sell up to 3 days per year
* Access to the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity to support your health and wellbeing, including free legal and financial advice
* Annual pay reviews
* Enhanced maternity/paternity pay
* Training and development opportunities
* Trade discounts from preferred suppliers for you and your friends and family, and Specsavers vouchers
Quantity Surveyor role
As a Quantity Surveyor, you will actively price materials and labour for their responsive repairs workstream using SORs, whilst managing the financial performance of this works to its completion. Focusing on reducing costs, improving efficiencies, and maximising value, you will have real impact on our profitability.
Responsibilities
* Be responsible for the financial and technical aspects of the contract, including procurement, managing budget, direct labour targeting, subcontractor management, invoicing, payments, cash flow, and cost control.
* Minimise costs where possible, and maximise value.
* Work with direct labour and subcontractors, ensuring all work issued has labour targets to return agreed profit performance.
* Develop and maintain open and trusting relationships with the workforce, customers, subcontractors, suppliers, and our client.
* Produce monthly contract valuations of the unit’s actual deliverables against the projected budget (CVRs).
Qualifications
* Proven experience in a similar commercial or Quantity Surveying role – ideally with experience of working on Schedule of Rates (SORs) contract and with social housing clients.
* Proven ability to minimise cost and maximise value, profit, and cash flow.
* Strong IT and Microsoft Excel skills – this is essential.
* Ability to process high volumes of data analysis.
* Experience in working with direct labour and subcontract procurement.
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