EMPONICS LIMITED
Quantity Surveyor
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Quantity Surveyor
About the Role
Our clients (a leading Property Services company) long-established Plymouth painting team continues to flourish and are looking to recruit a Quantity Surveyor.
This opportunity offers them the chance to welcome a driven, people-focused, and entrepreneurial Quantity Surveyor to join their long-reigning and supportive commercial and operational team, who specialise in painting and decorating and associated planned refurbishment works across the South West based out of Plymouth.
£60,630 inc car allowance (6700) plus fuel card, Profit share (last year 9.33%), private health, pension, life, etc.
Company Overview
They have been an established and leading property services company for over 75 years, based across England and Wales, in over 18 locations and 32 Business Units, so very well established. They are looking for an experienced Quantity Surveyor to work as part of their fantastic Painting team.
The main customer base will be Social Housing and Council/Local authority, Housing Associations, so it is worth highlighting any experience (on your CV) in these sectors or projects you've worked on, as this would be beneficial.
You will join their dedicated commercial and operational team, who specialise in Painting and Decorating and associated planned refurbishment works.
Painting background isn't essential, though if you have any experience in that regard pertinent to QS, please do mention it on your CV and/or summary document, as that will give you a distinct advantage.
Key Requirements
Ideally, they are looking for a Quantity Surveyor with experience dealing and working with direct labour teams of people, time sheets, etc. Any background in painting, brickwork, or plastering, or roofing, or civils, or new builds in terms of QS could work for this role along with tendering, estimating, and refurbishments, but dealing and working with direct teams is a big tick.
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Role Responsibilities
As a Quantity Surveyor, you will actively tender, estimate, and measure onsite. They can offer a variety of works including established frameworks and core contracts with prestigious housing clients within the public, and residential sector as well as their property services covering defence, commercial, and education sectors too.
The work is varied - and they'd be particularly interested to hear from you if you have experience on-site, pricing, and dealing with direct labour and subcontractors, time sheets, etc.
Benefits Package
They offer an exceptional benefits package:
- Be part of the company profit share scheme (9.33% of base salary achieved last year)
- Private mileage scheme and a fuel card
- Let us help you prepare for your future with an enhanced employer pension contribution of up to 7% OR a savings scheme.
- Life, Medical, and Permanent Health Insurance
- Annual leave, but you may want longer or less, so buy up to 5 days or sell up to 3 days per year.
- Access to the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity to support your health and wellbeing, including free legal and financial advice.
- Annual pay reviews
- Enhanced maternity/paternity pay.
- Training and development opportunities
- Trade discounts from their preferred suppliers for you and your friends and family, and Specsavers vouchers
Quantity Surveyor Role
As a Quantity Surveyor in Plymouth, you will actively tender, estimate, and measure onsite. They can offer a variety of works including established frameworks and core contracts with prestigious housing clients within the public, and residential sector as well as their property services covering defence, commercial, and education sectors too.
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Specifically, you will:
- Measure and prepare cost estimates for contracts and tenders, highlighting any commercial risks and mitigation for these.
- Prepare cost value reconciliations for contracts, identifying commercial risks and opportunities to ensure correct contract planning from the outset.
- Work closely with the Contracts Manager to ensure productivity labour targets are agreed and issued before contract start, including direct labour incentives where possible.
- Build strong client, supplier, and subcontractor relations, to ensure any variations and progress of contracts are discussed and mutual, commercially viable solutions are sought, always.
- Complete and analyse weekly reporting from site, ensuring it has adequate cost information (including labour rates and performance expectations, budgets, value, progress, quality, and safety)
What You'll Bring
You will be inquisitive, organised, and honest as well as being a genuine people person who thrives when collaborating with clients, trade teams, and immediate colleagues (commercial and operational). You will enjoy being part of a genuine team environment.
- Proven experience in a similar surveying role. Experience of the commercial ownership of projects and contracts from tender and estimation stages through to final account. Experience of working for a painting or refurbishment contractor would be very advantageous.
- Experience of successfully managing commercially, a total value of works up to £2 million annually.
- Schedule of Rates (SORs) experience.
- Entrepreneurial spirit, with a keen eye for identifying business opportunities, and areas for negotiation and better gains. You will describe yourself as commercial, analytical, and accurate in your approach.
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