Senior Quantity Surveyor
Vistry Group
- Exeter
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
- Company car, car allowance or travel allowance
- Agile working possible (dependent on role)
- Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Private Healthcare
- Competitive contributory pension scheme
- Life assurance – 4 x your annual salary
- Share incentive schemes
- Employee rewards portal with many more benefits…
- Behave in line with our company values – Integrity, Caring and Quality
- Proven experience with either a Main Contractor or developer
- Demonstrable strong account management and commercial experience
- Sub-contract payment recommendation
- Sub-contract Order recommendation
- Interim valuation submission and final account recommendation
- Strong team player, with the entrepreneurial ability to operate and excel in a changing on-site environment
- Demonstrable strong account management and commercial experience.
- Entrepreneurial ability to optimise profit in a continually changing environment.
- Well developed analytical, oral and presentation / communication skills.
- Be proven in commercial and risk management on similar schemes for similar sized contractors within the region
- The successful candidate will have a reputation for integrity, maturity, and sound business judgment.
- Possess the creativity, commercial expertise, and commitment to successfully lead commercial activities on site.
- Driven by their own ability to affect the outcome of the project and achieves job satisfaction by delivering strong results.
- Able to successfully communicate, create rapport and form working relationships with members of the project, sub-contractors and management team.
- Willing to work extra to meet deadlines as and when the business needs require it
- BSC Hons Quantity Surveying or equivalent
- Membership of an industry recognized professional body (CIOB, RICS, CInstCES).
- Training of and understanding of COINs
- Training of and understanding of 4p (Viewpoint)
- Management of Assistant Surveyor / Trainee Surveyor
- Experience of COINS
- Strive to optimise the profitability of the contracts.
- Ensure that the contracts achieve the optimum cashflow position.
- Completion and compliance with required contract documentation including Performance Bonds, Parent Company Guarantees and Warranties.
- Ensure that all contract documentation and sub-contract documentation is completed and stored centrally.
- Compliance with commercial and company procedures through the Business Management System.
- Presenting and agreeing the external valuation with the client’s representative.
- Pricing and agreeing variations with the client’s representative.
- Prepare and manage key and large risk subcontract accounts from inception to final accounts.
- Subcontract procurement strategy and implementation.
- Ensure the procurement of sub-contractors is in line with the Vistry Business Management System and that the packages cover the scope of the works.
- Check and ensure compliance and issuing of timely Payment and Pay less notices to Subcontractors.
- Control, monitor and improve commercial processes by establishing objectives and targets for the Contract teams.
- Preparing monthly CVR & VCA reports for presentation to the Business Unit Management.
- Prepare monthly reports and present to Joint Venture Partners & Clients.
- Monitoring risk and opportunity schedules and managing risk from Commencement to Completion.
- Contribute to management of life of site cost & revenue forecasts across multi-phase developments.
- As part of project team, help shape long term delivery strategy for project
- Provide input and cost and value engineering advice throughout the design life of the scheme and attend design team meetings.
- Provide input and cost and value engineering advice throughout the design life of the scheme and attend design team meetings.
- Managing and undertake the personal development reviews of associated surveying resources, including training.
- Ensure a proactive approach to dispute avoidance.
- Ensure company health and safety standards and procedures are followed throughout the team