Quantity Surveyor
| Posting date: | 19 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £40,000 to £55,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 June 2025 |
| Location: | WR14 1GQ |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Thorn Baker Recruitment |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 141802-1121 |
Summary
Job Title: Quantity Surveyor
Location: Midlands (Malvern office)
Due to business growth, Thorn Baker's award-winning client is looking for a Quantity Surveyor to join their Small Works team. As a family business with nearly 30 years' experience under their belts, their vision is to develop a business at the cutting edge of construction, while developing their people's skills support a long-term career. Now one of the UK's leading regional contractors, they deliver a range of public and private sector projects from £250k up to £30 million across a number of fields including education, healthcare, residential and leisure.
What's in it for you:
• Generous pension scheme + private healthcare
• Car salary sacrifice / Cycle to work schemes.
• Paid professional memberships.
• Training and development opportunities.
Your Responsibilities:
• Liaise with the team to support the placing of robust subcontractor trade orders in a timely manner and ensuring the main contract risks are passed on.
• Assist in the preparation of the PEP and continual review of the document and assist the project commercial lead to ensure all subcontractor payments are Construction Act.
• Ensure all notices to subcontractors are issued in the required time frames.
• Assist in the preparation of cost value reports and cost forecasts for monthly review with the commercial manager and leadership teams.
• Monitor & evaluate the value of works packages through physical re-measure of works carried out on site, notifying any potential issues to the commercial lead
• Manage and minimise nonrecoverable costs on a project.
• Review and ensure all contract final accounts are submitted and agreed in a timely manner.
• Proactively contribute to the project team.
• Identify disputes in a timely manner to the commercial lead
• Full job description available upon request
Required Skills:
• Experience of construction and take offs
• Commercially driven
• Ambition to progress in a commercial environment
• IT literate in Excel and Word
• Able to drive with full license
• Ability to work as part of a team and to mediate conflicting points of view
• Confidence and ability to communicate
• Awareness of health, safety and environmental issues
For more information on the role please contact Will at Thorn Baker on 07970 224 907 or email: will.elliott@thornbaker.co.uk
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