QS / Quantity Surveyor - Building / Construction – Cheshire / South Manchester
Company:
Opportunity to join a growing building contractor, specialising in the healthcare sector (new build & refurb).
Previous healthcare project sector experience is not essential.
Role will be a mix of office, site visits and some remote working
Duties:
As a Quantity Surveyor, you’ll be responsible for:
To ensure the successful financial completion of projects, protecting the exposure of the Company to financial risks, together with adherence to the commercial procedures of the Business.
Responsibilities:
- Co-ordinating with, reporting to and implementing the reasonable directives of the Regional Director/Manager and the Commercial Manager (functional reporting).
- Ensuring the timely submission of all relevant data required to monitor and analyse individual contract performance on a monthly and quarterly basis thereafter.
- Liaising with Contracts Managers on the day-to-day commercial administration of contracts to ensure the financial success of construction operations and to keep the Commercial Manager appraised of all material events.
- Preparing accurate draft sub-contracts and/or to approving such drafts as prepared by Commercial Team within the Region.
- Supervising, mentoring and encouraging junior staff in their personal professional development.
- Ensuring consultation with contracts management that all necessary notices and submissions required by the various forms of contract are given in an expedient manner.
- Ensuring that main contract payment applications contain all necessary admeasure/additional cost claims and that the timely submission of detailed claims and final accounts is achieved.
- Assisting Contracts Manager in the administration of sub-contractor performance so as to ensure the economic and timely completion of all sub-contractor liabilities written into the sub-contract.
- Ensuring prompt and regular submission of main contract payment applications and subsequent cash collection together with the preparation of sub-contractor payments (strictly in accordance with specified payment terms).
- Involvement in dispute avoidance/resolution.
- Responsible for managing meetings.
Requirements:
To be considered for this Quantity Surveyor role you must meet the following criteria:
-Previous employment as a QS / Quantity Surveyor / Project Surveyor or Senior QS.
-Previous Main contractor employment.
-Previous building sector project experience is essential.
Permanent job only.
Remuneration:
-£35k - £65k basic (dependent on experience)
-Car Allowance
-Pension
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