The Opportunity Awaits
Are you a visionary Surveyor eager to challenge the status quo and drive innovation in the construction industry? Join Wates, where we tackle high-profile, technically complex projects across diverse sectors. This is your chance to make a significant impact, elevate your career, and collaborate with a supportive and diverse team.
Why Wates?
At Wates, we don’t just build structures; we create thriving environments for people. We offer more than just a job; we provide a platform for you to unleash your creativity, redefine industry standards, and grow within a company that truly values talent and ambition. Our inclusive culture fosters collaboration and innovation, ensuring your contributions will help shape the future of construction.
Your Role
As a Senior Quantity Surveyor at Wates, you will be at the forefront of our project success, leading the commercial aspects and ensuring seamless execution. Here’s what you’ll be doing:
* Leadership & Strategy: Manage the project’s commercial team, taking charge of 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 expenses covered to any of our sites (subject to HMRC advisory rates)
* Extensive corporate benefits including:
o Private Medical Insurance
o Pension with 8% employer contribution
o Health and Wellness programme
o 26 days of holidays + bank holidays
* Excellent learning and development opportunities to support your career progression
* Industry-leading family leave benefits, including 26 weeks fully paid maternity and 12 weeks fully paid paternity leave
Ready to Build the Future?
If you’re excited to redefine what’s possible in construction and take your career to new heights, we want to hear from you! Join Wates, and together, let’s create tomorrow.
Make Your Mark!
We are always on the lookout for diverse talent to join our teams and help us grow and innovate. Even if you don’t meet every requirement, many of your skills may be transferable to other roles within Wates.
Our Commitment to You
As a responsible and inclusive employer, we are dedicated to equality and have been recognized for our efforts with accolades such as gold accreditation with Investors in People. We are also a Disability Confident employer, understanding the value of long-term relationships.
Given the nature of this position, a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) will be required at the offer stage. We assess applicants with criminal convictions individually and assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant’s criminal record or any disclosed offenses. Certain roles may also require additional pre-employment checks.
Join 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: Collaborating with customers, partners, and communities to create sustainable, inclusive environments full of opportunity.
* Thriving planet: Protecting nature and addressing climate change through collaboration and innovation.
* Thriving people: Creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone feels included, invested in, and cared for.
Join us in our mission to build a better future!