Senior Quantity Surveyor

Senior Quantity Surveyor 
DLP Services (Northern) Limited

Role overview:

This is a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic candidate to apply themselves to one of the North West's market leaders in social housing community regeneration.

We are looking for a Senior Quantity Surveyor with a background in planned and responsive repairs within social housing to join DLP Services based in our Salford head office.

The main purpose of this role is to take responsibility, ownership and accountability of the successful management and control all aspects of the commercial / financial and contractual elements of the designated projects in order to control and maximise the company’s profitability, protect the company’s legal and contractual obligations and to manage and lead proactively the control of all commercial issues.

This is to include ensuring applications and valuations are completed in line with the contract terms and also ensuring sub-contractors receive prompt payment and are procured in line with our contractual obligations. In addition ensuring cost reports and the like are managed, completed on time and monitored. 

Responsibilities:

• Control all expenditure
• Reconcile cost/value reports and profit forecasts
• To assist the Department Managers with pre-start planning and programming
• Promote and add to the use of the approved sub-contract data base
• Sub-contract procurement and commercial management
• Lead estimator on all planned works
• Management and control of sub-contract accounts and variation accounts
• Assisting and liaising with the Department Manager and Quantity Surveyors on materials procurement and buying opportunities
• To manage the day to day cost control, monitoring and reporting
• Develop an understanding of the designated contracts, specifications and pricing ensuring compliance with conditions throughout
• Assist the Department Managers with subcontractor selection and ensure the chosen subcontractor has the appropriate skill set and capability to deliver the works.
• Liaise with the Department Managers over contractual issues and take action as required 
• Measure progress, submit valuations, submit final accounts and retention release and monitor receipt of payment in a timely manner in accordance with the contracts
• Authorise subcontractor requests for payment
• Completing a monthly cost / valuation report and cash flow for the designated projects
• Attend project and company related meetings
• Ensure the company is neither compromised nor disadvantaged by any contractual or financial arrangements
• Be responsible for your safety and others around you
• Assisting the development and training of trainee and assistant surveyors
• Maintain and develop professional relationships with the Client, to help future business development

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Previous experience in Quantity Surveying and Estimating of planned works and responsive maintenance, ideally within the social housing sector
• Excellent verbal communication skills
• Excellent writing skills and a high level of numeracy
• IT skills – MS Office, Excel, Project, Word etc. Ability to adapt to in house software.
• Post graduate experience within a contracting surveying position reporting to Senior business managers and board of Directors
• Prepared to travel as necessary to attend meetings and visit site

An excellent package of salary and benefits is available to the successful candidate, with an opportunity to progress and grow within this forward thinking organisation.

To apply, please follow the instructions a the bottom of this page.