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Senior Quantity Surveyor

Role overview – Senior Quantity Surveyor

My client is a privately owned, multi award winning construction and integrated support services business with 50 years’ experience. Building for generations and working with select clients nationally, the company offers a holistic range of services; acquire, design, build, operate and maintain. They require each employee to embody our EPIC values to ensure the following:

 

Excellence | Passion | Innovation | Collaboration

 

Their contracts are primarily for the Group’s asset backed operating businesses in the care, residential and education sectors; New Care and Back to the Garden Childcare, as well as supporting revered clients with their nationwide rollout programmes in the health care and food retail arenas.

 

With accolades including The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work for and Investors in People Gold, this is an exciting time to join them.

 

Due to sustained growth, they are now looking to recruit a Senior Quantity Surveyor based at our Eastry development.

 

APPLCANT MUST BE WITHIN A COMMUTABLE DISTANCE TO SITE – Eastry, Kent

 

Role Responsibilities 

  • Client valuations including thorough measurement as work progresses, through to final account
  • Cash flow forecasts and monitoring against programme
  • Accurate valuation, forecasting and monitoring of site Preliminaries
  • Ensure full recovery and valuation of variations/instructions
  • Provision of timely and accurate documentation, warranties and the like, both internally and externally
  • Ensuring that the procurement of subcontractors is undertaken in a timely and cost effective manner
  • Administration of subcontractor contracts and accounts
  • Ensuring that payments/notices are issued in accordance with the Subcontract and Construction Act
  • Timely production of subcontract final accounts, including re-measurement and valuation of all variations as necessary to facilitate the optimum result
  • Keep the Managing Surveyor informed of the progress of both client and subcontractor accounts through to their finalisation, including the release of retentions
  • Compile monthly Cost/Value reconciliations and forecasts, including future risks and opportunities, and present to the senior management team
  • Ensure any commercial threats to projects are identified swiftly and communicated to the Managing Surveyor and all contractual notices are issued correctly and on time
  • Attend meetings and ensure that surveying information and cost advice is provided in an accurate, timely and proficient manner. 

 

Requirements 

  • Surveying Degree or equivalent qualification/experience
  • Experience of working for a Main Contractor
  • Design and build experience 
  • Excellent communication skills 
  • Experienced in commercially managing large scale projects 

 

Benefits

  • 6% Employer Workplace Pension
  • 25 days’ holiday + Statutory
  • Holiday ‘Buy Back’ scheme + bonus birthday holiday
  • Healthcare Scheme
  • 1 days paid ‘Change the World’ volunteering day


Location: Kent | Salary: 65000 - 75000 per year | Job type: Permanent | Posted: 18/03/2025

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