Senior Quantity Surveyor

Are you a Quantity Surveyor who has experience of working on residential properties? Are you available at short notice to work for a luxury developer specialising in Care Homes

My client are an expanding developer whom due to expansion require further support within the Commercial Department,

They are looking to recruit a freelance Quantity Surveyor with the possibility to go perm for for their head office t

They are looking for somebody who can come in and ideally hit the ground running so people with no experience will not be suitable.

The ideal candidate will have over 4 years experience in construction and know how to work on a project from inception to completion. So somebody who can get involved at the tender, price it, appoint sub-contractors and then manage the project until final accounts.

The successful quantity surveyor will report into the Commercial Manager and ideally look after a couple of projects, other duties will include:

• Provide feasibility cost estimates, provide cost advice of alternative design solutions and offer commercial advice in the development of the design prior to appointment of sub-contractors.
• Input to and develop the trade package specific procurement strategy and subsequently the production of tender documents, tender assessment and trade contractor appointment.
• Deliver and/or engage with the delivery of post contract duties including payment, cost reporting and trade contract administration.
• Engage with and build on existing and new sub-contractors and suppliers.
• Deliver better buying, supply chain management to deliver an optimised cost & value solution.
• Fulfil the lead role for closing the procurement of trade packages, including the conclusion of tender adjudication to deliver a fixed price lump sum.
• Generate, challenge and deliver the principles of Value Management opportunities during design development, tendering and delivery stages of the project.
• Working on site with the sub-contractors, monitoring and paying them with completed works
• Working on any variations with the client and supply chain

If you are interested please email your CV