Job Title: Quantity Surveyor
Location:Peterborough

Thorn Baker's award-winning client is looking for a Quantity Surveyor to join their commercial team. This is a great opportunity to work with a growing housing developer with exciting new projects commencing in the East Midlands and Eastern area.

You will be responsible for pro-actively managing the production of commercial information throughout the duration of a project and/or roll out program, ensuring that sufficient funds are allowed to deliver the project on time, safely, profitably and to customer satisfaction, and identifying and driving opportunities for improvement in customer service, safety, quality, and profitability.

What's in it for you:

• Competitive Salary
• Generous Bonus scheme
• Car allowance
• Contributory pension
• Healthcare
• Continual investment in professional development
• Flexible working hours and working from home

About you:

• Strong Communicator
• Ability to focus on multiple projects at different stages of development.
• Exceptional project and time management skills
• Organised and Proactive

Your Responsibilities:

• Fully understand the terms and implications of project contracts or framework agreements and ensure that project costs reflect these.
• Prepare project costs using agreed Schedules of Rates, built up net costs, sub-contractors quotes and agreed mark-up for general overhead, indirect overhead, direct overhead, riskand profit.
• Ensure that sub-contract and purchase orders are issued accurately, on time and to reflect that nature of the project contract.
• Maintain a full understanding of the developing project and amend costs to reflect this, ensure that variation information is issued and approved to timescales that facilitate successful project delivery.
• Pro-actively monitor and negotiate sub-contract variations to agreement.
• Identify and highlight risk and work with the project team to eliminate / reduce this.
• Prepare accurate project Cost Value Reconciliations and report these at staged valuations and final account.
• Attend site meetings as required.

Required Skills:

• Minimum qualification HND in Quantity Surveying / Construction Management.
• At least 3 years'relevant experience.
• COINS experience desired.
• Fully conversant with Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Full UK driving licence.

For more information on the role please contact Chloe at Thorn Baker on 07733 314 668 or email: chloe.taquin@thornbaker.co.uk

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