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Senior Quantity Surveyor

December 15, 2023 | Comments Off on Senior Quantity Surveyor

Are you a Senior Quantity Surveyor who is on the lookout for exciting new opportunities in the New Year? Are you interested in exploring a role with a reputable, supportive, and diverse construction consultancy firm? Interested in having a variety of projects and sectors available for you to work on? Then keep reading!

An amazing opportunity has arisen for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join a Construction Consultancy firm in London. We are looking for an ambitious and self-motivated person who will run small, medium, and large-scale projects both autonomously and as part of a team. You will work across a vast array of exciting projects within residential, commercial, aviation, healthcare, education and rail!

This opportunity will suit someone who is looking to progress quickly, who is looking for an excellent employee culture, and someone who is a self-starter!

Responsibilities of a Senior Quantity Surveyor:

  • Establishing client's requirements and undertake initial cost planning exercises.
  • Carry out cost planning and value engineering to RIBA design stages and give informed client cost advice.
  • Have an understanding and developing an opinion on procurement strategies.
  • Prepare tender and contract documents, including BOQ's.
  • Carry out tender appraisals and identify a recommendation for the client.
  • Monitor and record costs of projects.
  • Identify risks to projects and assess cost variations.
  • Value completed works and arrange payments in accordance with the contract.
  • Be able to produce draft project or claim reports under the supervision of senior staff.
  • Issue notices in accordance with the contract under claim situation.
  • Liaise and confidently communicate with other members of the project or client team.
  • Maintain detailed variation and risk register information.
  • Able to prepare draft final accounts.

Requirements of a Senior Quantity Surveyor:

  • Confident to attend, run and input into project meetings.
  • Gaining experience or understanding of the CVR process.
  • An understanding of ADR methods.
  • Thorough knowledge of construction techniques and principles.
  • Demonstrates an appetite for CPD.
  • Numerate.
  • Reliable and trustworthy.
  • Good IT skills.
  • Smart & presentable.
  • Confident.
  • Accuracy and attention to detail.
  • Good communicator.
  • Ability to follow work instructions.
  • Ability to work as part of a team.
  • Adaptable and flexible
  • Willingness to work on a secondment role in a client's office or on site premises
  • Car driver.

Benefits of the Senior Quantity Surveyor:

  • 25 days annual leave plus statutory bank holidays.
  • Hybrid working
  • Private medical insurance
  • Eligible for discretionary Company bonus scheme.
  • Professional membership with RICS

Aldwych Consulting values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.

Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.

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