Senior Quantity Surveyor - Leeds
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Your Responsibilities
- Take commercial responsibility for a portfolio of works/multiple projects
- Manage train and provide support to a dedicated commercial team, carrying out regular job chats, PDR’s and helping to develop staff through PDP’s
- Provide advice to commercial team/project staff on commercial and contractual matters including reviewing and drafting of correspondence
- Supply relevant commercial team/project staff on commercial and contractual matters including reviewing and drafting of correspondence
- Manage and produce formal reports to the Commercial Manager/Director for inclusion in the quarterly commercial board report
- Monitor contract compliance against statutory requirements
- Ensure all contract correspondence is recorded and logged
- Develop client relationships, achieving a progressive improvement in customer satisfaction
- Maintain and establish regular contact/meetings with client
- Oversee and monitor contract costs against agreed budgets
- Develop and monitor the use of cost and financial reporting systems
- Carry out monthly/periodic financial reviews (CVR’s) on portfolio/multiple projects and forecast final outturn values for cost, sales and margin
- Oversee and monitor the process for production and submission of variations/change including maintaining variation/change log
- Prepare and submit periodic valuations/application for payments ensuring that Client payment and cash collection is achieved in accordance with the contract
- Identify potential commercial/financial risk and opportunity and evaluate options to mitigate/realise
- Oversee the procedures for certification of contract payments/variations and settling final accounts to sub-contractors in line with agreed terms and conditions
- Assist with tenders, both in terms of formulating and review
- Comply and Promote the company safety policy
- Any other duties as may reasonably be required.
Person Specification
The perfect candidate will have:
HND/ HNC/ Degree in Quantity Surveying – Essential
A minimum of 5 years experience as a Quantity Surveyor - Essential
Similar experience working within a contracting environment - Essential
Civil Engineering experience - Essential
Rail background - Desirable
A membership with RICS/CES – Desirable
The ability to confidently communicate with colleagues across the business, from Site staff to Directors
Strong attention to detail and initiative to work independently
The ability to guide and support team members in their learning and development within the department
The Package
Competitive Pay
Working from our modern offices within a Grade 2 listed building, in trendy Chapel Allerton, North Leeds
A collaborative and friendly working culture, focussed on investing in people
Up to 25 days holiday + Statutory Bank Holidays
Up to 2 working from home days per week, following a successful probation period
Company Sick Pay
Excellent training & development opportunities, provided by our dedicated in house Training team
A mentoring scheme to help you settle well into the company and your new role
Paid Volunteering days and Charity events
Annual Flu Jabs
Employee Assistance Programmes for advice and counselling
Access to a committed Mental Health First Aider team
Company Pension and Death in Service scheme of 2x annual salary
A generous Employee Referral scheme of £1000 per successful hire
At CML we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business.
We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and experiences and all applicants will be considered purely on their merits and potential, regardless of where they are from, their age or gender, their lifestyle choices , their beliefs or what disability they may have.
We’re also striving to be a Disability Confident employer and we’ll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities apply and interview for roles.
About CML
Family-owned UK civil engineering contractor delivering rail, infrastructure, building, maintenance, and emergency works.
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