Managing Quantity Surveyor - Residential

£65,000 - £75,000

About:

My client is a professional building contractor with vast experience in contracting and property refurbishment, working on various projects from building work for houses, studios, flats, apartments, from private homeowners, landlords, developers, builders to estate agents and property management companies in and around London.

Their services range from the smallest of property projects to refurbishment and renovation of multi-million-pound properties and extend to major renovation and construction projects.

The role:

This is an exciting opportunity to join a small company as a Managing Quantity Surveyor. They require someone with extensive management experience to take control of their contracts works department and drive this forward. They currently have two junior project managers that would require additional support and the managing QS would take over their tendering, take up the role of senior project manager and improve the company’s overall professionalism and that is why they would require the successful candidate to be responsible for the two existing project managers.

Information on the role

• Ability to deliver and manage the provision of Quantity Surveying / Cost Management on a range of new builds, refurbishments and programmes of work, from inception to handover.
• Act as day-to-day lead on projects, providing service delivery
• Responsible for pre and post project commercial management and reporting.
• Prepare Client cost reports and reports on change during the life of a project.
• Have an awareness of project costs outside of direct Construction (design, supervision, land, statutory undertakers, employer direct).
• Assist in the development of Client relationships.
• Ability and desire to generate repeat business and win new work.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both Clients, contractors and internal staff.
• Manage workload and project resources.
• Mentoring trainee, assistant and graduate colleagues.

What we’d like from you

• Previous Refurbishment, Interior, Maintenance experience
• Proven Quantity Surveying & Contract Management experience
• Self-motivated, friendly, sociable, and driven
• Willingness to drive to and mainly work on various sites
• Full driving license
• Commercially aware

If this opportunity sounds like something of interest, please email gabriel(@) huntermasonconsulting .com