Quantity Surveyor - Intermediate or Senior Level - refurbishment / fit-out Milton Keynes
A leading national consultancy in Milton Keynes has openings for a Quantity Surveyor or a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join their growing team
Working on a range of industry-leading schemes, they operate within a range of sectors, including education, healthcare, leisure, and retail. The majority of their workload is refurbishment, and they are most prominent in the retail sector
Lots of benefits:
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27 days' holiday plus bank holidays.
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6% pension
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All expenses covered for work purposes
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Hybrid working – 2-3 days office & home
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8.30 to 5 – again flexible – you can start earlier/ finish earlier if you prefer
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Private health insurance and can add your family
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Open plan office
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Informal working environment
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Trust people – manage your workload
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Casual dress
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Regular social events
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Plenty of room to progress
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RICS support
The role Quantity Surveyor
You will be joining an established team and will enjoy working in a collaborative environment in a modern, open-plan office.
You will focus on work for 1 large client undertaking refurbishment and fit out works, and alongside this, could be looking after improvement works on education schemes, such as re-roofing works, fire upgrades, etc.
Office/home-based in the main, out seeing clients roughly once a week.
Job Objectives:
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Establishing friendly, professional relationships with clients and being an extension of their team
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Subcontractor tendering and reviewing costs.
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Providing accurate project cost monitoring, forecasting and reporting to completion in line with the budget.
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Proactively monitoring and managing cost variance and contract cash flow, and ensuring that applications are made correctly and promptly.
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Collaborating with client and contractor teams to manage the delivery of project deliverables, KPIs, and objectives, including programme performance, cost control, and value engineering.
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Ensuring that final accounts are negotiated and agreed.
The right person
You will either have experience working as a Cost Manager or a Quantity Surveyor.
Main contractor or consultancy experience
Refurbishment experience is key (walls, ceilings, floors, M & E)
You will be used to working at pace on fast turnaround projects
Cost Manager / Cost Management / Quantity Surveyor
