Quantity Surveyor – Central London (London Bridge)
The Company: A ground-breaking specialist Tier 1 Main Contractor based in Central London. They are a multi award winning company that are leading the way in MMC!
Uniquely, they offer clients a full turnkey service to design, finance, build, equip, operate and hire amazing zero carbon spaces. They celebrate individuality, modular isn’t about everything being the same.
They have an impressive turnover for a growing business of over £500M last year and they hired 90 new employees – taking their headcount to 218.
Excitingly, they have plans to set up a development side of the business (land acquisitions etc) next year in order to keep everything in-house!
The Role: In this role, you will have full oversight of a project or multiple projects, ensuring all commercial aspects and requirements are managed and reported on in an effective way to ensure projects are running effectively and in line with the commercial strategy. You will manage the project supply chain and directly report to the Commercial Sector Lead on all commercial activities.
You will be ensuring all relevant projects have the right resources and support to ensure they achieve their objectives of being on time, on budget, to the required quality and Health and Safety standards.
You will be based at their London headquarters & initially have a focus to their Ministry of Defence projects!
Main Responsibilities:
Set up, maintain and report on project-wide commercial risk/opportunity registers and ensure that risk/opportunity registers are in place and pro-actively managed on relevant projects.
Aid and implement project cost, commercial and supply chain strategy and ensure project specific strategies are in pro-actively managed
Oversee the project costs, commercial and supply chain activities, ensuring projects are delivered within budget and cost, commercial and supply chain performance is regularly and accurately reported.
Ensure clear and accurate scopes and budgets are in place for all works packages (internal and external) and ensure effective change control against these.
Implement and support process improvements to increase efficiency and effectiveness of the project’s cost, commercial and supply chain activities
Manage and develop project commercial team to ensure they have the skills and resources necessary to deliver their objectives.
Develop and maintain relationships with clients, suppliers, and other stakeholders to ensure the company's commercial success.
Implement and maintain effective project supplier performance management
Support the Commercial Sector Lead with the negotiation of sector commercial agreements and contracts with clients and suppliers
Maintain and support project cost estimating, forecasting and control systems across all project stages that ensure high quality data and effective control as the basis for decision making and action
Undertake line management responsibilities for project commercial team, setting and manging standards and performance and ensuring effective communication
Job Location: Central London (London Bridge)
Head Count: 200+
Project Sectors: MOD, Residential, Healthcare, Commercial & Education
Requirements for the Quantity Surveyor:
Degree qualified – within a construction related discipline
Be analytical in nature, passion for problem-solving and excellence
Excellent attention to detail
Confident in speaking and presenting
Highly competent in production planning and control
Work effectively with other directors to achieve shared outcomes and objectives
Inspire team members to high performance and create great followship
Strong verbal and written communication skill
Proven ability to review and improve processes and procedures, looking for innovative and creative solutions
Excellent people management skills with track record of improving and developing team
Able to develop and maintain excellent working relationships and build trust with all levels of team internally and external
Excellent problem-solving skills, the ability to research and an aptitude for helping other people
A goal-oriented mindset and good organisational skills
The benefits included in this role:
Highly competitive salary (negotiable DOE)
Generous bonuses (which can be given on the spot)
Pension Scheme (10% combined)
Private Medical Insurance (Bupa)
Medical CashPlan – scheme administered by Medicash at Level 3. There is an option to add families to the policy at the employee’s personal cost. (This is a taxable benefit)
Cycle to work scheme – all employees can buy a bike for up to £2,300 and this will be deducted from gross salary via Salary Sacrifice, 1 bike can be purchased per year
Professional Fees reimbursement – CIOB, RICS and any other relevant construction related (or job related) membership fees
Company sick pay scheme
Electric Vehicle Scheme with Love Electric
Enhanced maternity and paternity pay (once eligible)
25 days Holiday (pro-rata) – 3 are kept back for Christmas as the office is closed between Christmas and New Year
Travel (only applicable when this is mentioned in the contract) by way of car allowance or company vehicle or business mileage/expenses for business travel using personal vehicle
Comprehensive and Tailored Training – Full access to their internal and external training and development when relevant to position
Monthly Team Socials – The business gets together for social events such as cricket/boxing/rally car racing
Team Events – 2 business events happen per year, one in the Summer and another at Christmas
Volunteering Days – 1 day per year per employee are dedicated to Charity work
Apprenticeship/University Fees – on approval in advance
Life Assurance – 4 x salary
Get in touch today to find out more about this fantastic opportunity, Callum Dugdale – callum@prosper-consulting.org.uk