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Senior Quantity Surveyor

Posted 6 days ago

Company Description

United Living is a leading infrastructure, construction, and property services company in the UK. We help our customers and the communities they serve benefit from resilient infrastructure, affordable homes, and improved living spaces that are fit for the future. Our mission is to be the partner and employer of choice for designing, building, maintaining, and connecting communities and critical infrastructure, to create a more sustainable and inclusive society.

United Living Group is comprised of four complementary businesses, all dedicated to realising our vision of creating a connected, sustainable future:

Property Services – We revitalise homes and communities through the regeneration of living spaces, breathing new life into neighbourhoods. From delivering large programmes of work for social housing providers, to ensuring the highest building safety standards, we provide a range of services for public sector clients.

Infrastructure Services – Our team of infrastructure specialists design, build and maintain critical energy and water infrastructure, for the UK’s largest network owners and operators. The work we do supports the requirement for effective solutions to address the UK’s decarbonisation goals, and our processes minimise environmental and carbon impacts, whilst ensuring the safe and reliable operation of assets.

New Homes - As experienced and specialist new build housing contractors, we create homes and regenerate areas with communities in mind. We work collaboratively with registered partners, local authorities, and private developers to provide high quality, energy efficient, and sustainable homes for people to live and grow.

Connected - We connect people through fixed-line and wireless telecom infrastructure, ensuring seamless communication and access to information for all. At United Living, we have one of the largest specialist in-house teams for project management, acquisition, design, construction, and maintenance in the UK.

Job Description

Join the thriving and dynamic United Infrastructure Services team in Nepicar Park! As a rapidly growing business, we are excited to welcome a new Senior Quantity Surveyor to contribute to our success. If you're looking for a long-term career opportunity with a Main Contractor, where you can develop your skills and be part of an industry-leading organisation, this role is for you.

United Living Energy is a UK gas and energy engineering specialist offering design, build and maintenance on critical national infrastructure for the UK gas asset owners.

You are to be the commercial lead on projects and be responsible for the commercial success of the projects whilst adhering to commercial administration procedures. To promote and deliver a collaborative environment with both the client and throughout the management of the subcontract / supply chain account.

Contract Management Responsibilities:

Negotiate terms and conditions of subcontracts.
Manage and process payments for specialist subcontracts and key suppliers.
Ensure strict compliance with contract terms, conditions, rights, and obligations.
Report monthly on the outturn Pain/Gain (if applicable).
Coordinate changes or amendments in accordance with Partnering Contracts
Analyse the impact of changes and assess liability exposure.Contract Administration:

Monitor and track contract obligations.
Undertake site visits to administer the contract in line with project progress.
Monitor and report on contract performance in terms of program, cost, and key events/issues.
Perform the closeout process, ensuring all contract terms are met and payments are verified.
Obtain and execute any required forms, reports, or clearances and resolve outstanding issues.
Collaborate with both clients and subcontractors in all duties.Budget Management:

Work with the project team to evaluate the impact of budget changes.
Capture and report cost variances.
Collate Defined Cost Records for client audit.Reporting and Documentation:

Produce monthly Cost Value Reconciliation.
Generate Earned Value Analysis reports.
Validate Subcontract Applications/Payments data.
Review and validate weekly cost monitors, comparing forecasted costs with actual costs.
Prepare monthly valuations.
Maintain change registers.
Provide commercial elements for the commercial report.

Qualifications

Must be highly computer literate including Microsoft Office and confident in managing and working with large data sets
This job is a full-time permanent role, 8am-5pm Monday to Friday from our Nepicar Park Office
Opportunity to spend time in and working closely with other departments will be provided to ensure the successful applicant gains a wide depth and breadth of experience and understanding of the company and industry

Additional Information

If you are ready to be part of our expanding team and contribute to our success, apply today for immediate consideration. Join us on this exciting journey of growth and innovation!

As a business United Living prefer to hire directly and we will be in touch with our PSL Agencies if we require support. We do not accept speculative CVs from agencies. If speculative CVs are sent, no fee will be applicable