EMPONICS LIMITED
Quantity Surveyor
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Middlesbrough TS17
To £59,000 inc car allowance PLUS pension, healthcare, profit share last year 9%
Our client in Middlesbrough (Thornaby-on-Tees) are seeking an experienced Quantity Surveyor to join their Response Team - (Housing Response and Maintenance)
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. Their main customer base is Social Housing and Council/Local Authority, Housing Associations.
Quantity Surveyor
Following an internal promotion, they’re recruiting a Quantity Surveyor for their Middlesbrough-based Commercial team in the Responsive repairs division. They have had another prosperous year and are looking ahead to a sustainable future of potential and opportunity.
If you thrive on data, love solving complex commercial challenges, and want to make a real social impact through the work you deliver, this is your opportunity
Responsibilities
- Interrogate and manipulate data with advanced Excel skills to analyse SOR codes, identifying cost-saving opportunities and delivering efficiencies across the contract.
- CVRs/Valuations
- Live within easy travelling of Middlesbrough area
- Dealing with direct labour and timesheets
- Schedules of Rates
- Formal qualifications or surveyor training
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The Quantity Surveyor role
As a Quantity Surveyor, you will actively price materials and labour for our responsive repairs workstream using SORs, whilst managing the financial performance of this works to its completion. Focusing on reducing costs, improving efficiencies, and maximising value, you will have real impact on our profitability.
Specific tasks will include:
- Being responsible for the financial and technical aspects of the contract. This will include procurement, managing budget, direct labour targeting, subcontractor management, invoicing, payments, cash flow, and cost control.
- Minimising costs where possible, and maximising value.
- Working with direct labour and subcontractors, ensuring all work issued has labour targets to return agreed profit performance.
- Developing and maintaining open and trusting relationships with the workforce, our customers, subcontractors, suppliers, and our client.
- Producing monthly contract valuations of the units actual deliverables against the projected budget (CVRs)
What will you bring as a Quantity Surveyor?
- Proven experience in a similar commercial or Quantity Surveying role - ideally you will have experience of working on Schedule of Rates (SORs) contract and with social housing clients.
- Proven ability to minimise cost and maximise value, profit, and cash flow.
- Strong IT and Microsoft excel skills - this is essential.
- Ability to process high volumes of data analysis.
- Experience in working with direct labour and subcontract procurement.
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Their main customer base is Social Housing and Council/Local Authority, Housing Associations.
The main criteria is someone with reactive maintenance experience having managed the commercial aspects. SOR (schedule of rate contract) experience and knowledge is a big tick. High volume jobs, analytical and spreadsheet familiarity.
Benefits
- Be part of the company profit share scheme (9% 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
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