Location: South Midlands, Northampton

Type of Role: Permanent, Full Time

We are offering an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated individual to join our Commercial team as a Quantity Surveyor. This is an excellent opportunity to gain invaluable experience and to progress your career with a highly reputable construction company, within a high standards and high rewards environment. 

Responsibilities

• Regular site visits and liaising with the production team.

• Preparing and reviewing tenders with estimators and assisting with understanding the client's requirements to offer value engineering.

• Providing early cost advice to clients on variations and ensuring only authorised variations are undertaken.

• Offering technical advice on drawings and ensuring each projects have the correct documentation.  

• Managing the end-to-end commercial aspects of the assigned projects to maximise value and collaborating with the Finance and Procurement departments accordingly.  

• Ensuring all commercial accountabilities are undertaken in a timely manner, with a high degree of accuracy and measure.

• Analysing rates & prices and agreement of variations and / or compensation events as required.

• Identification and analysis of potential debt risks and negotiating financial reconciliation with third parties to provide reasonable solutions.

• Forecasting monthly and annual profit figures ensuring figures are maintained throughout the lifetime of the project.

• Understanding the principles of safety on sites and projects.

• Supporting the safety Director and safety team in the application of safety policy and practice.

• Ensuring that any safety concerns are addressed immediately with the support of the safety team and Directors as appropriate.

• Building strong working relationships with clients including social networking.

• Allocating work to sub-contractors including assistance with procurement when required.

Requirements

• GCSE Minimum 7 A-C / 5-9 including math’s and English.

• Minimum 3 A-Levels at Grade B and above or equivalent BTEC.

• HNC Level 4 Qualification in Construction/Building or equivalent.

• Relevant experience as a Quantity Surveyor.

• Excellent computer skills, including Word and Excel.

• Effective oral and written communication skills.

• Excellent interpersonal skills.

• Demonstrate an extremely high level of confidentiality.

• Excellent organizational skills.

• Must be able to identify and resolve problems in a timely manner.

• Must be able to gather and analyse information skilfully.

• Must be highly motivated and be willing to work hard.