Senior Quantity Surveyor

Responsibilities and Duties

Main Purpose of the role:

• To act as the key, day to day client interface, ensuring that client objectives are met through the delivery of a premium cost management service.
• To assist in business development, bid writing and work winning, utilizing market knowledge to fuel sector growth.

Main Duties and Responsibilities (not limited to):

• Conducting feasibility studies and writing procurement reports
• Applying Value Management techniques at the outset of a project and where appropriate involving our specialist Value Management team
• Managing estimating and cost planning activities to include taking ownership of and presenting the final cost plan
• Ensuring that post-contract cost variances and change control processes are managed effectively
• Ensuring that cost checking and valuation work is managed effectively
• Ensuring the production of monthly post-contract cost reports and presenting them to the client Value engineering and life cycle costing
• Ensuring that final accounts are negotiated and agreed

Marketing and business development, to include:

• Identifying and acting upon business opportunities
• Working with Directors to construct bids for new work
• Identifying and acting upon opportunities to improve cost management procedures, templates and products and hence improve the service provided to clients as a whole

Qualifications/Educational Requirements

• Degree qualified or equivalent - preferably construction related
• Full or on route to full membership of the RICS or InstCES is strongly preferred

Employing Company Overview and Profile

The employer is a world leading international construction and management consultancy with offices worldwide. They provide Cost Management, Project Management, Management Consultancy and Contract Services to public and private sectors across a wide range of construction projects.