EMPONICS LIMITED
Quantity Surveyor
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About the Role
Our client is expanding their commercial team out of their Watford office. They are looking for an enthusiastic, people-focused, and entrepreneurial Quantity Surveyor to join their dedicated commercial and operational team, who specialise in Painting and Decorating and associated planned refurbishment works to the public, private, residential, and educational sector.
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, plastering, roofing, or new builds in terms of QS could work for this role along with tendering, estimating, and refurbishments. However, dealing and working with direct teams is a big tick.
The main points they are looking for are:
- CVRs/Valuations
- Live within easy traveling distance of the Watford area
- Dealing with direct labour and timesheets
- Schedules of Rates
- Formal qualifications or surveyor training
- Any exposure to Painting/Decorating
£69,490 inc car allowance (6700) plus fuel card, Profit share last year 9.33%, private health, pension, life, etc.
Painting background isn't essential, though do mention if you have any exposure to that.
About the Company
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 you really need to highlight any experience (on your CV and the summary) in these sectors or projects you've worked on as this would be beneficial as well.
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They value their employees and offer an exceptional benefits package: the chance to be a part of their prosperous long-term future that is full of potential, development, and opportunity.
- 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 our preferred suppliers for you and your friends and family, and Specsavers vouchers
The Quantity Surveyor Role
As a Quantity Surveyor, you will actively tender, estimate, and measure onsite and also liaise with direct labour at the client. We can offer a variety of works including established frameworks and core contracts with prestigious clients within the public, and residential sector as well as our services covering into the retirement living, commercial, and education sectors too. Specifically, you will:
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- Measure and prepare cost estimates for contracts and tenders, highlighting any commercial risks.
- 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 and supplier relations, to ensure any variations and progress of contracts are discussed and mutual 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 as Quantity Surveyor
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. Fostering a real working together environment, whilst building valued long-term relationships.
- Proven experience in a similar estimating and surveying role. Experience of the commercial management of projects from tender and estimation stages through to final account.
- Experience of successfully managing a value of works up to £3 million annually.
- 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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