Senior Quantity Surveyor

Job Description

Senior Quantity Surveyor-Cost consultant

Location – Yorkshire preferred, with full flexibility to work from Leeds or Sheffield offices and home location.

If applying from outside the UK please include all relevant UK experience and your visa status/requirements

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  You will work for an international professional services consultancy with great strength and a culture of progression and diversity. Placing a strong emphasis on the training, development and assessment of our staff, we’re dedicated to providing cutting-edge expertise.

  Are you ready to work on some of the most exciting and prestigious construction challenges across the UK? Join our collaborative team where everyone has a voice, and together we deliver excellence for people and the environment. No two people have the same priorities, which is why we want to hear from you. And why flexible and remote working are central to our culture. So, talk to us about how we can support you – from reduced weeks to buying more leave over school holidays; how we can make adjustments for you at work, or help your transition back after a career break.

  Read more about how you can thrive with us.

  WE are looking to bolster our team with a highly competent and ambitious individual, with sector expertise of delivering cost consultancy services in the Property sector.

  Ideally you’ll already be operating at a senior level with 5+ years’ experience in a consultancy environment, be client facing with the ability to deliver commissions of varying scale and complexity.

  With a strong pipeline of national projects across multiple workstreams this is a fantastic opportunity for a technically strong individual to help grow our expanding team and develop their career further. This role provides the opportunity to work on a multi-million-pound programmes of works which covers a broad range of developments including:

  • Mixed Use city centre developments
  • High and medium rise Residential Build to Rent (BTR/PRS) and Private for Sale
  • University campus developments
  • Local government programmes across major UK frameworks
  • Commercial office new build and refurbishment
  • Corporate Real Estate

  Join Faithful+Gould and you'll be part of a high performing team that delivers high-quality expertise, driven not just by success but also by doing what's right. You'll meet colleagues who are as talented as you and ready to support you to 'hit the ground running.' Collaborating with team members, clients, stakeholders and contractors, you'll also enjoy opportunities to mentor co-workers while progressing your career upwards. 

  Responsibilities:

  • Ability to deliver and manage the provision of Quantity Surveying / Cost Management/ or Employers Agent services on a range of new builds, refurbishments and programmes of work, from inception to handover
  • Act as day to day lead on projects, providing service delivery
  • Responsible for pre and post project commercial management and reporting.
  • Prepare Client cost reports and report on change during the life of a project.
  • Have an awareness of project costs outside of direct Construction (design, supervision, land, statutory undertakers, employer direct).
  • Assist in the development of Client relationships
  • Ability and desire to generate repeat business and win new work
  • Experience of various forms of Building Contracts incl JCT and NEC
  • Ability to communicate effectively with both Clients, contractors and internal staff
  • Manage workload and project resources
  • Mentoring trainee, assistant and graduate colleagues.

  Requirements:

  • Extensive experience with either Private and Public Sector clients (both preferred)
  • BSc in Quantity Surveying (or equivalent)
  • Ideally MRICS or similar accreditation
  • 5+ years working in a professional consultancy environment
  • Sound working knowledge of Microsoft Office and other role-related software packages.
  • IT skills, such as BIM / CAD measure, Cost Planning software eg CATO/CostX
  • Ability to form effective working relationships with colleagues and clients.
  • Confident, outgoing, with the drive to succeed and develop.
  • This role has excellent prospects for an individual who has a strong ambition to progress and enjoys working collaboratively within a vibrant team. As well as technical competence, we are looking for someone with the ability to think laterally, who possesses first class communication skills, has strong commercial awareness, and will provide an excellent service to our Clients and contribute to building an effective team.

  Why work for us?
  Join us and expand your career on some of the industry's most exciting and newsworthy construction projects – from mission-critical COVID-19 facilities to the world's tallest hotel, London's Heathrow Airport to Europe's first eco-friendly mosque. You'll enjoy invaluable exposure to international expertise as well as innovation in local niche areas.

  In 2020, we took away Silver and Gold in the Construction Manager of the Year Awards; and made finalist for the Young Surveyor of the Year. So, you'll be part of a team where our standards are high, as are the rewards. And, at every career stage, you'll benefit from industry-leading programmes to help improve your skills and knowledge.

  Communities are at the heart of our work. Together, our people are proud to be working towards a Net Zero Carbon future and regenerating cities across the UK.

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