Senior Quantity Surveyor job in London, UK #100245/27374

Job description

Our client is a major design, engineering and project management consultancy who has been rapidly growing within various sectors and who is looking for multiple experienced professionals to join them on permanent basis. This role is for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join their team in London.

Duties:

• Full quantity surveying and cost management duties.

• Provision of pre-contract feasibility and viability.

• To provide high quality cost advice on complex, urban, residential led regeneration developments.

• Increase their share of the client’s spend.

• Build client relationships and harness opportunities for cross selling our Client's full spectrum of services & locations.

• Managing interfaces with design and construction teams.

• Guidance, care and mentoring of supporting staff, upskilling others and providing career growth opportunity.

• Drive high levels of client satisfaction.

• Delivery projects to satisfaction of their clients on programme within the agreed cost and quality parameters.

• Actively broaden your experience and expertise in line with the core expertise.

• Have an up-to-date and developing knowledge of legal and technical matters relevant to the work you do, and the law of the region or country in which you practise.

• Have an up to date and developing knowledge of a range of building contract forms including JCT and NEC.

• Participating in relevant internal/external training initiatives.

• Applying the principles of quality assurance and environmental management.

• Managing the client relationship and service delivery.

• Ability to team build.

• Growing and actively participating in a sector-focussed team.

• Expressly, an appropriate amount of high-quality experience required in the residential sector, having worked on all aspects of quantity surveying/cost management/employer’s agent roles in this sector.

• Effective and efficient in the preparation of feasibility and pre-contract estimates.

• Effective and efficient transition of pre-contract through to post contract advice.

• Productive supervision of support team including adequate planning, monitoring and control.

• Client interface level of responsibility on a project basis in conjunction with senior grades.

• Effective and efficient knowledge of a range of project procurement options.

• Ability to work with the minimum of supervision and on own initiative in a client facing role.

• Ability to advise clients on strategic matters, key cost drivers, project costs and added value.

• Knowledge and understanding of overall construction costs.

• Experienced in client, consultant and contractor facing roles and working as a member of a busy team. Used to working to tight and ever changing deadlines.

• Understanding of the London residential property market would be considered advantageous.

• Internal commercial management of projects.

Requirements

Essential Experience:

• Proven track record to manage projects for or on behalf of local or national clients

• Assist in business development and/or account management activities

• Participate in marketing and thought leadership campaigns

Desirable:

• Chartered with RICS, CIOB,ICE, RIBA or similar