My client has a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join their team in their Wolverhampton office. My client is a top UK national housebuilder with a 5 star rating who work on a mixture of new build housing and retirement village projects.
The Senior Quantity Surveyor will be responsible for being the commercial lead for mixed tenure developments. You must have experience of successfully delivering major open market affordable and contracting housing schemes with values in excess of £5m. This is a senior role, and the successful candidate will have worked in a similar level role for a main contractor or developer. You must be proven in commercial and risk management on similar schemes for similar sized contractors. You will have a reputation for integrity, maturity, and sound business judgment be totally comfortable working in and managing a team and possess the creativity, commercial expertise, and commitment to successfully play an important role within the commercial and site teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Strive to optimise the profitability of the contracts.
- Ensure that the contracts achieve the optimum cashflow position.
- Completion and compliance with required contract documentation including Performance Bonds, Parent Company Guarantees and Warranties.
- Ensure that all contract documentation and sub-contract documentation is completed and stored centrally.
- Compliance with commercial and company procedures through the Business Management System.
- Presenting and agreeing the external valuation with the client's representative.
- Pricing and agreeing variations with the client's representative.
- Prepare and manage key and large risk subcontract accounts from inception to final accounts.
- Subcontract procurement strategy and implementation.
- Ensure the procurement of sub-contractors is in line with the System and that the packages cover the scope of the works.
- Check and ensure compliance and issuing of timely Payment and Pay less notices to Subcontractors.
- Control, monitor and improve commercial processes by establishing objectives and targets for the Contract teams.
- Preparing monthly CVR & VCA reports for presentation to the Business Unit Management.
- Prepare monthly reports and present to Joint Venture Partners & Clients.
- Monitoring risk and opportunity schedules and managing risk from Commencement to Completion.
- Contribute to management of life of site cost & revenue forecasts across multi-phase developments.
- Provide input and cost and value engineering advice throughout the design life of the scheme and attend design team meetings.
- Managing and undertake the personal development reviews of associated surveying resources, including training.
Experience and qualifications
- HNC / HND / BSC Hons Quantity Surveying
- Proven experience as a PQS / SQS / Commercial lead working within a residential house builder
- Demonstrable strong account management and commercial experience
- Sub-contract payment recommendation
- Sub-contract Order recommendation
- Interim valuation submission and final account recommendation
- Strong team player, with the entrepreneurial ability to operate and excel in a changing on-site environment
- Demonstrable strong account management and commercial experience.
- Entrepreneurial ability to optimize profit in a continually changing environment.
- Well-developed analytical, oral and presentation / communication skills.
- Be proven in commercial and risk management on similar schemes for similar sized contractors within the region
- Possess the creativity, commercial expertise, and commitment to successfully lead commercial activities on site.
- Membership of an industry recognized professional body (CIOB, RICS, CInstCES).
- Experience of COINS
Salary and Package
- Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
- Company car, car allowance or travel allowance
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and the option to buy up to 5 days per annum
- Private Healthcare
- Company contributory pension scheme
- Life assurance - 4 x your annual salary
- Sharesave scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Support with a professional membership
- Denplan,
- GymFlex
This is a superb opportunity to join an established but growing business working with opportunity for career progression.