EMPONICS LIMITED
Quantity Surveyor Residential
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About the Role
Our client is expanding their commercial team out of their Aston, Birmingham office. They are looking for a Quantity Surveyor who can share in this growth ethos. Honesty, integrity, and teamwork will be at the heart of what they do.
Key Requirements:
- CVRs/Valuations
- Live within easy travelling distance of the Birmingham area
- Dealing with direct labour and timesheets
- Schedules of Rates
- Formal qualifications or surveyor training
- Any exposure to Painting/Decorating
- Estimating/Measuring and applying rates
Preferred Experience:
- Experience dealing and working with direct labour teams of people, time sheets, etc.
- Background especially in Painting, brickwork, plastering, roofing, or new builds in terms of QS
- Experience in tendering, estimating, and refurbishments
- Dealing and working with direct teams
They are looking for an enthusiastic, people-focused Quantity Surveyor to join their dedicated commercial and operational team, who specialize in Painting and Decorating and associated planned refurbishment works to the public, private, residential, and educational sectors.
Benefits:
- Be part of the company profit share scheme (9.33% of base salary achieved last year)
- Private mileage scheme and a fuel card
- Enhanced employer pension contribution of up to 7% OR a savings scheme
- Life, Medical, and Permanent Health Insurance
- Annual leave, with the option to 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 preferred suppliers and Specsavers vouchers
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The Quantity Surveyor Role:
As a Quantity Surveyor in Southampton, you will actively tender, estimate, and measure onsite. We offer a variety of works including established frameworks and core contracts with prestigious clients within the public, residential, retirement living, commercial, and education sectors. Specifically, you will:
- 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 analyze weekly reporting from site, ensuring it has adequate cost information (including labour rates and performance expectations, budgets, value, progress, quality, and safety)
What You Will Bring as Quantity Surveyor:
- Inquisitive, organized, and honest
- 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 working with Direct Labour. 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 key 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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Painting background isn't essential so any background in painting/decorating, brickwork, or plastering in terms of QS would be very transferrable for this role along with tendering, estimating, and refurbishments. But please mention any aspects of painting and Decorating if you have any exposure to that.
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.
Customer Base:
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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