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Senior Quantity Surveyor
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Senior Quantity Surveyor
Location: Christchurch, Dorset (and surrounding areas)
Salary: Up to £60,000, depending on experience, plus pension and discretionary bonus
About the Role
We're looking for an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor to lead our commercial and pre-construction function across multiple projects, taking responsibility from initial enquiry through to final account.
Working directly alongside our Managing Director, you'll:
- Prepare estimates
- Manage procurement
- Administer JCT contracts
- Produce construction programmes
- Deliver fortnightly client valuations
- Keep every project commercially on track
You'll also provide leadership to our Project Coordinator, ensuring our commercial administration, procurement processes, and document control operate efficiently.
This is a broad, hands-on role for someone who wants more than a traditional QS position, with genuine influence over commercial strategy and a clear pathway to a future Commercial Manager role as Broad Construction continues to grow.
What You'll Be Doing
Commercial Management:
- Leading the commercial management of multiple projects, from pre-construction through to final account
- Producing budgets, cost plans, and monthly Cost Value Reconciliations (CVRs)
- Forecasting cash flow and final accounts, and reporting commercial performance to the Directors
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Estimating & Pre-Construction:
- Preparing detailed estimates for luxury residential construction, refurbishment, and maintenance projects
- Carrying out accurate quantity take-offs and identifying value engineering opportunities
- Attending client, architect, and consultant meetings
Procurement:
- Developing procurement strategies, issuing tender enquiries, and negotiating subcontractor and supplier pricing
- Appointing subcontractors and suppliers, and managing procurement schedules against the build programme
Contract Administration & Valuations:
- Administering JCT contracts and preparing Letters of Intent
- Preparing fortnightly interim valuations, capturing variations, and negotiating final accounts
Programme Management:
- Producing detailed construction and procurement programmes
- Working closely with Site Managers to keep projects on track, and flagging risks early
Leadership:
- Supporting and guiding our Project Coordinator
- Helping to develop and improve internal systems, procedures, and workflows
About You
You will be commercially astute and detail-focused, a proactive problem-solver who takes ownership without waiting to be asked, and a natural relationship-builder with clients, consultants, and suppliers alike. Most importantly, you'll be ready to grow with an ambitious, expanding business.
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Essential Requirements:
- Significant experience as a Quantity Surveyor or Senior Quantity Surveyor
- Experience within residential construction, ideally luxury residential
- Strong estimating, quantity take-off, and procurement/negotiation skills
- Good understanding of JCT contracts
- Experience preparing valuations, variations, and final accounts
- Confidence producing construction programmes (Microsoft Project or similar)
- Strong Excel skills, excellent organisation, and communication
- Full UK driving licence
Desirable Requirements:
- Degree in Quantity Surveying or Construction Management
- Experience with Bluebeam, CostX, or similar take-off software
- Working towards or holding MRICS or MCIOB
- Experience with property development and planned maintenance contracts
What We Offer
- Salary up to £60,000, depending on experience
- Company pension
- Performance-related bonus
- Company computer
- Ongoing training and professional development
- The opportunity to work on luxury residential projects
- Direct involvement with the Directors and business strategy
- A genuine pathway towards a future Commercial Manager role
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