About The Land Development Agency

The Land Development Agency (LDA) is the State’s affordable housing delivery body. Its main role is to acquire and develop State and other land to deliver affordable homes, supporting the creation of thriving communities and delivering ongoing positive social impact. It is overseen by an independent Board of Directors and has total capitalisation of up to €8.75bn. To date €6.25 billion of equity capital has been committed by Government and a further €2.5bn capitalisation is permitted under legislation from other sources/debt.

The LDA is active on more than 20 State Land sites and has a delivery pipeline in excess of 25,000 homes. The Agency also works in partnership with the country’s largest and most experienced homebuilders and will deliver a further 8,000 homes under its Project Tosaigh initiative.

Additionally, the LDA is working on large-scale longer-term strategic areas by master-planning and bringing forward planning applications in locations such as Limerick Colbert Quarter, the Digital Hub in Dublin and Sandy Road in Galway.

Role Purpose

Do you want to further develop your professional career across the full spectrum of residential property development?

Do you want to join a highly motivated team of professionals working towards a common goal?

Do you want to apply your core quantity surveying skills in an innovative and exciting way?

This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic senior level Quantity Surveyor (SQS/Associate Director) with strong commercial and technical acumen to join the Cost Management Team at a senior level to support the development of the LDA’s extensive development pipeline, one of the most significant development pipelines in the history of the state.

The role will involve providing in-house cost management expertise and support across multiple business functions including Strategic Planning & Master Planning, Land Acquisition & Activation, Property Development, Construction Delivery, Developer Collaboration, Asset Management and Investment.

Key Responsibilities

• Visit sites in consideration and preparation of high level feasibilities and development budgets for early-stage viability analysis.
• Viability and cost modelling analyses.
• Procurement of project design teams and construction delivery partners.
• Interface and liaise closely with external consultants, building effective and collaborative working relationships.
• Responsibility for ensuring financial viability.
• Leading and contributing to design team workshops offering cost, value management, procurement, contract and affordability advice.
• Liaise closely with all LDA external quantity surveying consultants. Review and assess external QS reports and cost documents.
• Assisting LDA Development Managers and Construction Managers as required in the management of projects on a day-to-day basis.
• Management of project development budget and post contract expenditure.
• Involvement in supply chain (Main Contractor/Developer/Consultant) negotiations where appropriate.
• Responsibility for maintaining and enhancing current cost databases of construction and development costs.
• Managing and ensuring development budgets and specific project gateway budget approval requests are robust.
• Play leading role in enhancement and optimisation of LDA cost management standardised documentation, processes and function.
• Responsible for financial claims analyses and appraisal of construction and development soft costs.