Quantity Surveyor - Groundworks

Location:Maldon, Essex

Salary:£55,000 - £75,000 per annum

Type:Permanent, Full Time

My client is in search of an experienced Quantity Surveyor to enhance there established team, focusing on housing/residential groundworks packages within the building and civil engineering sectors.

With a solid reputation spanning over six decades, my clients core business specialises within the civils & groundworks division. Owing to an upsurge in workload, they present an opportunity for a Quantity Surveyor to join there team.

Responsibilities:Reporting to the Head Of Civils, you will be accountable for:

• Issuing subcontract enquiries and orders
• Establishing a monitoring regime on subcontractor accounts
• Identifying and measuring changes/delays to works
• Assisting in creating contract budgets and contract reporting
• Submission of substantiated valuations
• Cost and value reconciliations
• Advising/controlling commercial aspects of site activities
• Establishing buying targets/credit limits
• Cash flow forecasts
• Gathering financial information for CVR reporting, collating data from Sage and finer details from invoices
• Assisting the estimating department with take-offs, 'first principle' rate build-ups, and reconciling on-site labor outputs
• Demonstrating a thorough understanding of project(s) contractual and commercial requirements
• Demonstrating confidence and expertise in dispute resolution and risk, and opportunity profiling with minimal input from the Directors
• Forming productive relationships with our site and management teams
• Promoting and maintaining strong client relationships to agree valuations and maintain throughout the project to agree the final account

Experience:

• Experience in Groundworks and Civils on residential housing is essential
• Experience in managing live concurrent projects up to £30m
• Ability to communicate effectively and work on own initiative

Benefits:

• 28 Annual Holiday (Increasing +1 day per year, up to 33 days)
• Free parking
• Death In Service
• Car Allowance OR Company Vehicle

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