Sweet Projects
Senior Quantity Surveyor
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At Sweet Project Holdings Limited, (SPHL), we work with the data, defence, and energy sectors. We are a comprehensive design, construction, and engineering provider, offering services spanning site acquisition, architecture, and refurbishment to client occupancy. In our world, there are no simple projects, only specialist needs and clever solutions.
We are a general contracting business, drawing on over forty years of specialized industry experience to provide excellent service, sustain long-term partnerships, and achieve the highest quality outcome for key clients, whilst maintaining financial commitments.
Sweet Projects is looking for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join their General Works Team in Filton, Bristol. We are proud to be working with some of the largest, most impactful companies in the UK and abroad to deliver high-quality, bespoke, refurbishments, installations, and new-build sites.
Whether a new build, bespoke project, or the upkeep of existing properties and infrastructure – including secure areas, controlled access zones, offices, and accommodation – we provide a service that can be relied upon to deliver solutions beyond the build, driving progress, and resolving the unique challenges the defence sector faces.
Experience required
- Must have a good working knowledge of the principle forms of construction contract, current construction legal principals, and dispute resolution processes.
- Commercially oriented, qualified individual, with experience of taking commercial responsibility on a variety of projects with a variety of alternative forms of procurement and project values.
- Experience successfully delivering commercial strategies and processes on a variety of projects, including a range of project values, and comfortable articulating the outcomes.
- Strong understanding of procurement practices and subcontract forms.
- Proficient in cost/value process and reporting.
- Management training and development will be provided as part of Sweet Projects’ personal development program.
- Practical experience in effective planning and organization, resource management, and commercial management.
- Proven ability to understand and meet objectives, ensuring the successful execution of projects.
Qualifications
- HNC / HND / Degree in Quantity Surveying is desirable.
- Membership with professional organizations such as MCIOB and/or MRICS (or equivalent experience) preferred.
Competencies
- Leadership skills with a focus on team awareness and collaboration.
- Strong ability to work both as part of a team and independently, taking initiative as required.
- Computer literate in MS Office.
- Able to make strong contributions to the business beyond the core commercial discipline.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to interact effectively with diverse stakeholders.
- A customer-focused approach, always striving to meet client needs and expectations.
- Strong decision-making abilities, backed by sound judgment and practical insights.
- Negotiation skills to achieve favorable outcomes for the company and clients.
- Ability to build, develop, and maintain relationships with key internal and external people.
- Effective time management skills, ensuring tasks are completed efficiently and deadlines are met.
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Purpose
The primary responsibility of the Senior Quantity Surveyor is the commercial management and administration of assigned works or tasks.
The role focuses on optimizing profitability by managing allocated projects or packages, ensuring the efficient implementation and commercial oversight of tasks and contracts. Provide commercial expertise to aid with the delivery of the contracted work by taking the commercial lead in a geographical-focused team.
The provision of accurate and timely commercial reports and advice to the management team whilst ensuring the contract achieves the appropriate commercial targets.
Key responsibilities include overseeing commercial reporting in line with the company’s requirements and standards, including commercial reporting, cash forecasts, and End of Life results. The role also covers all pre-contract works, including formulating and delivering strategies aimed at achieving high-quality margin work. Leading the commercial team, the role ensures projects are sufficiently resourced, adhering to quantity surveying best practices, and maintaining compliance with the company’s authorization levels, quality standards, and health, safety, and environmental procedures.
This requires delivery of good commercial practice on all projects under their control and working with project leadership and site management to optimize profitability and cash generation on all projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Take ownership and delivery of commercial and contractual administration best practice on all projects under their responsibility.
- Ensuring compliance with Group Operating Procedures.
- Represent and serve the best interests of the business to meet the client expectations and encourage repeat business.
- Working with project leadership and site management to ensure all projects meet and exceed objectives set for turnover, cash, and profitability, both on an interim and final basis.
- Maintaining robust commercial management, reporting, and forecasting.
- Working with project leadership and site management in the recovery of full financial entitlements on projects including the measurement of change and resolution of issues with an effect on profitability.
- Implementing project procurement strategy and requirements and ensuring the correct procurement, administration, payment processes, and management of subcontracts on all projects under their responsibility.
- Actively seek to improve department processes and procedures.
- Attend all pre-contract meetings with the supply chain as necessary to ensure full compliance with the subcontractor/consultant/supplier and scope is clarified prior to entering into contract agreement.
- Identifying project risks and implementing effective management strategies.
- Working with and under the leadership of the Commercial Manager to protect the company or divisions commercial and contractual interests on all projects under their responsibility.
- Working with project leadership and site management in the management of project design to maximize return, quality, timing, and safety.
- Promotion of effective attitudes and behaviors consistent with the Companies Core Values.
- Ensure that all reporting is accurate and completed to agreed timescales.
- Ensure the project and programme contract, cost, quality, and time targets are met.
- Ensure prompt and regular submission of main contract payment applications and ensure that subcontractor payments are dealt with fairly and in accordance with subcontract terms.
- Ensure all commercial documents are correctly managed and filed, in accordance with company data storage platform, to meet all contractual and legal requirements.
- Supervise, mentor, and encourage all subordinate staff in their personal professional development including PDP, welfare, safety competency, and disciplinary matters.
- Review weekly productivity of the team under their management.
- Build a close relationship with the delivery manager to ensure the goals for the distribution area are fully met, assisting the operations team with their customer relationship.
- Maintain and coordinate all commercial reports required for the successful commercial management of the contract.
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The duties listed are not exhaustive and may be varied from time to time as dictated by the changing needs of the Company. The post holder will be expected to undertake other duties as appropriate and as requested by his/her manager.
The post holder may be required to work at any of the locations at which the business of Sweet Projects is conducted.
Sweet Projects is an Equal Opportunity Employer
We believe that our success is built on the success of our employees. We are committed to providing a supportive and rewarding work environment that helps our employees to achieve their personal and professional goals.
Our policy is clear: there shall be no discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or sexual orientation.
We are an inclusive organization and actively promote equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills, and potential. We welcome all applications from a wide range of candidates. Selection for roles will be based on individual merit alone.
We offer a wide range of employee benefits including:
- Salary Banding: £65,000 - £75,000 per annum.
- Car Allowance (for eligible roles).
- Competitive pension scheme.
- Electric vehicle scheme.
- BUPA Healthcare and Cash Plan.
- Eyecare vouchers.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- 25 days Holiday plus Bank Holidays plus Birthday day off.
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