Join McGoff Construction as a Quantity Surveyor
Location: Witham
About McGoff Construction
McGoff Construction is a privately owned, award-winning construction and integrated support services business with a 50-year legacy. With our holistic approach to construction, we acquire, design, build, operate, and maintain spaces for clients nationwide, particularly in the care, education, healthcare, and food retail sectors. Our commitment to quality has earned us recognition, including The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For and Investors in People Gold.
Our success is rooted in our EPIC values:
- Excellence: Creating a united team that takes pride in their work and drives improvement through collaboration.
- Passion: Delivering inspiring spaces through sustainable, inclusive methods.
- Innovation: Embracing creativity to solve industry challenges.
- Collaboration: Aligning with all stakeholders for efficient, high-quality outcomes.
Job Description: Working as part of the commercial team and reporting to a Commercial Manager, working on a housing project, the duties would include assisting with the following:
- Client valuations including thorough measurement as work progresses, through to final account
- Cash flow forecasts and monitoring against programme
- Accurate valuation, forecasting and monitoring of site Preliminaries
- Ensure full recovery and valuation of variations/instructions
- Provision of timely and accurate documentation, warranties and the like, both internally and externally
- Ensuring that the procurement of subcontractors is undertaken in a timely and cost-effective manner
- Administration of subcontractor contracts and accounts
- Ensuring that payments/notices are issued in accordance with the Subcontract and Construction Act
- Timely production of subcontract final accounts, including re-measurement and valuation of all variations as necessary to facilitate the optimum result
- Keep the Commercial Manager informed of the progress of both client and subcontractor accounts through to their finalisation, including the release of retentions
- Compile monthly Cost/Value reconciliations and forecasts, including future risks and opportunities, and present to the senior management team
- Ensure any commercial threats to projects are identified swiftly and communicated to the Commercial Manager and all contractual notices are issued correctly and on time
- Attend meetings and ensure that surveying information and cost advice is provided in an accurate, timely and proficient manner
Requirements
- Surveying Degree or an equivalent qualification/experience
- Experience of working for a Main Contractor
- Design and build experience, ideally with JCT contracts.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Experienced in commercially managing large scale projects
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook.
Benefits
- 6% Employer Workplace Pension
- 25 days’ holiday + Statutory
- Holiday ‘Buy Back’ scheme + bonus birthday holiday
- Healthcare Scheme
- 1 days paid ‘Change the World’ volunteering day
McGoff Construction is an equal opportunities employer, which seeks to ensure that no applicant receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of; gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status or race.