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Job Title: Quantity Surveyor
Location: Midlands (Malvern office)
Due to business growth, Thorn Baker's award-winning client is looking for a Quantity Surveyor to join their Small Works team. As a family business with nearly 30 years' experience under their belts, their vision is to develop a business at the cutting edge of construction, while developing their people's skills support a long-term career. Now one of the UK's leading regional contractors, they deliver a range of public and private sector projects from £250k up to £30 million across a number of fields including education, healthcare, residential and leisure.
What's in it for you:
- £40,000 - £55,000 per annum + car allowance
- Generous pension scheme + private healthcare
- Car salary sacrifice / Cycle to work schemes.
- Paid professional memberships.
- Training and development opportunities.
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Your Responsibilities:
- Liaise with the team to support the placing of robust subcontractor trade orders in a timely manner and ensuring the main contract risks are passed on.
- Assist in the preparation of the PEP and continual review of the document and assist the project commercial lead to ensure all subcontractor payments are Construction Act.
- Ensure all notices to subcontractors are issued in the required time frames.
- Assist in the preparation of cost value reports and cost forecasts for monthly review with the commercial manager and leadership teams.
- Monitor & evaluate the value of works packages through physical re-measure of works carried out on site, notifying any potential issues to the commercial lead
- Manage and minimise nonrecoverable costs on a project.
- Review and ensure all contract final accounts are submitted and agreed in a timely manner.
- Proactively contribute to the project team.
- Identify disputes in a timely manner to the commercial lead
- Full job description available upon request
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Required Skills:
- Experience of construction and take offs
- Commercially driven
- Ambition to progress in a commercial environment
- IT literate in Excel and Word
- Able to drive with full license
- Ability to work as part of a team and to mediate conflicting points of view
- Confidence and ability to communicate
- Awareness of health, safety and environmental issues
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For more information on the role please contact Will at Thorn Baker on (phone number removed) or email: (url removed)
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