Position: Quantity Surveyor
Location: East Yorkshire
Hybrid: Yes. 4 office / 1 home to start, 3 office / 2 home once onboarded
Salary: £50K + car allowance
Nicholas Associates have an excellent opportunity for a Quantity Surveyor, to work for an engineering client in East Yorkshire on a variety of UK and international projects.
The team includes talented designers, experienced structural engineers, mechanical engineers, heating, cooling and ventilation engineers, computer control engineers, electrical engineers, project managers, fabricators and installers.
Working as part of the project team, the role of the Quantity Surveyor is to manage all the commercial aspects of the project from contract award up to agreeing the final account with the client. Projects can vary in value from £100,000 to £10 million plus with duration from a few weeks to several months. Projects will involve multi-disciplines including civils, structural steel, glazing, electrical, mechanical, irrigation and controls. Most projects are UK based although some international work is undertaken.
About the role:
- Working on multiple projects at any one time
- Preparation and timely submissions of applications, identifying and pricing of variations and agreement of final accounts
- Preparation of cashflow forecasts
- Establish project budgets from the estimators cost build ups
- Preparation and reporting of monthly cost reports
- Reviewing contract documents pre-contract award
- Attending project and client meetings where required
- Working with internal departments to assist with supplier and subcontractor procurement and contract award
- Reviewing subcontractor applications and issuing payment certificates
- Reviewing and authorising subcontractor/supplier purchase orders and invoices
- Providing contract administration duties throughout the project
About You:
- Degree qualified in a relevant discipline (Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Construction Management)
- Proven and demonstrable experience in a similar role working for a main contractor or multi-disciplinary engineering company. We are unable to consider people who do not have post-qualification experience.
- Experience working with NEC and JCT forms of contract
- Experience of creating and reporting monthly cost reports/CVRs
- Have a strong technical understanding of construction and engineering disciplines
- First class interpersonal skills; this role will have a high degree of customer interaction
- Proficient IT skills
- UK driving licence essential – you will be required to travel to projects throughout the UK.
Level : You will probably be able to demonstrate 2-4 years professional post-qualification experience as an Assistant Quantity Surveyor, Quantity Surveyor or similar.