Senior Quantity Surveyor

Your new company
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our team at our site in Plymouth. As our Senior Quantity Surveyor, you will be responsible for managing all costs relating to new build residential developments. Your focus is to minimise the costs of a project and enhance value for money, whilst still achieving the required standards and quality.
Your new role

• Maintain a record of current build costs & rates and liaise with the Senior Estimator to ensure all records are current.
• Attend the site pre-start meeting to receive construction issue drawings and determine build and sales strategy.
• Compile tender packages for all sub-contract trades and despatch in accordance with Commercial Best Practice Manual.
• Receive tenders and qualify.
• Compile analysis sheet for each trade comparing tender levels with CV1/CV2 estimates and latest management plan.
• Compile and present CV2 tender summary sign-off in accordance with parameters determined in the Commercial Best Practice Manual. Compile and present CV1 tender summary sign-off in accordance with parameters determined in the Commercial Best Practice manual. Coordinate the activities of the Material Buyer and Company Estimator to achieve CV1 and CV2 sign-off.
• Obtain authorisation to 'let' all sub-contract orders valued over thresholds as noted in Commercial Best Practice Manual.
• Place and issue sub-contract orders in accordance with Group Policy and Commercial Best Practice to budget and within programme requirements.
• Ability to deal with complex consortium sites and attend relevant meetings.
• Complete sub-contract orders to accord with site programmed build requirements in accordance with Group Policy and Group Rebate schemes and fully adjudicate prior to issue of documentation.
• Control and report post contract cost movements per development every month.
• Update CV1 and CV2 site specific reports and provide details of all "unscheduled" and "scheduled" order revisions i.e. Site Instructions and site purchase orders.
• To provide such monthly reporting as required by the Commercial Manager.
• Review professional fee provisions and statutory service cost, and credits, with the technical department.
• Ensure invoices/applications for payments are processed in accordance with Bovis Homes Standard Terms and Conditions of Contract.
• Issue Payment Withhold Notices, where a contractor application, or part thereof, is in dispute in accordance with Construction Act.
• Immediately advise management of notification of impending claim or legal action arising from a disputed claim or payment from a Sub-Contractor/service provider.
• Where necessary, determine a sub-contract order in accordance with Standard Terms and Conditions of Employment and liaise with Build Department in this respect.
• Diligently use the Bovis Homes construction system to manage site project administration, including orders, variations, valuations, etc.
• Assist in the regular review of materials on-site and material valuations.
• Agree and process all sales variation requests, including works to show homes, stock plots and sales incentive works in accordance with group procedures.
• Properly categorise on the construction system "unscheduled" and "scheduled" order amendments.
• Settle all variation invoices/applications for payment in accordance with Bovis Homes Standard Terms and Conditions of Contract.
• Process groundwork's payments/applications for payment using the Bovis Homes AGA payment system as outlined in Commercial Best Practice Manual.
• Ensure the collection of retention against all sub-contract orders in accordance with Group Policy.
  Manage and certify retention releases on completion of the development.
• Complete and agree sub-contract final accounts within 6 months of the last legal completion on-site and prior to the first release of retention to the individual sub-contractors.
• Maintain final account schedule.
• Maintain completed development provision on CV1.
• Maintain CV2 reserves as part of the 'Old Site Reserve' central file.

What you'll need to succeed

• Behave in line with our company values - Integrity, Caring and Quality
• HNC / HND in Surveying or equivalent
• Proven experience as a PQS / SQS / Commercial lead working within a residential house builder (dependent on position level)
• Experience maybe gained from a similar position or promotion
• A good understanding or building regulations and legal obligations
• A good knowledge or construction methods and materials
• Strong mathematical and IT ability
• Ability to assess and analyse information
• Good business sense
• Good understanding of budget management
• Negotiating and networking skills
• Excellent communications skills
• Able to work under pressure, and accept criticism of work
• Good team working skills
• Accurate with an eye for detail
• A methodical approach
• Willing to work extra to meet deadlines as and when the business needs require it

What you'll get in return
10% of salary in bonus
Monthly Pay
Free parking on site

• Company car, car allowance or travel allowance
• Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private Healthcare
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Competitive contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance - 4 x your annual salary
• Share incentive schemes
• Employee rewards portal with many more benefits

What you need to do now
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