Senior Quantity Surveyor

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Synergy Personnel LTD are currently recruiting for a Senior Quantity Surveyor in Bristol, Avon.

Overall Purpose: To play a central role ensuring projects are delivered on time and profitable. The quantity surveyor is responsible for ensuring sub-contract orders are let expeditiously and in line with the subcontractors' procurement schedule, the project is fuly valued and accurate project reports are prepared for management consideration.

Accountabilities

Leadership and management

Promote company visions, values and a culture of continuous improvement. Communicate with colleagues, customer, consultants and subcontractors in a warm and persuasive manner, adopting a style suitable for the audience and building a positive working relationship.

Comply with best practice in health and safety, relevant codes of professional practice and standards of professional competence. Give adequate and proper supervision to trainees and assistant quantity surveyors. Early identification of risk and opportunity and work with the team to maximise benefit.

Cost Control

Select appropriate contracts and place orders with sub-contractors for necessary packages of work, liaising with relevant members of the project team as necessary. Ensure that comparative prices are obtained and that company procurement procedures are followed. Ensure that the terms agreed with sub-contractors are robust and that risk and cost effective solutions for the project are provided. Liaise closely with the buyer, ensure that subcontract orders and professional appointments are documented properly and in a timely manner.

During the project, check accounts submitted by subcontractors, ensure payments are raised and that any necessary contractual notices are in place with sub-contractors, consultants and suppliers. Liaise with the contracts manager throughout. Promptly agree final accounts with subcontractors and ensure final account agreements forms are copied to Finance

Value Optimisation

Agree schedule of valuation dates with customer or their representative. Ensure that contract valuations are submitted so as to obtain timely issue of certificates, thus maximising the companies cash. Keep a record of dates for valuations, issue of certificates and receipts of payment on the project. Ensure that all variations are priced and agreed progressively throughout the contract to enable the final account to be agreed as close as practically possible to practical completion of the project. Ensure that retention monies are promptly released at the correct time.

Keep records, and with the main contracts manager prepare any applications for extensions of time awards and loss and expense accounts. Maintain any other contractual correspondence or records that may be required to protect the companies commercial position.

Ensure the customer and there representatives are kept aware of appropriate financial matters including advising of the likely forecast final account.

Financial and commercial reporting.

Attend pre commencement meetings and ensure that al relevant information is transferred from the estimators to the project team selected for the project. Attend regular review and control meetings with the management team. Advise of any disputed item in external valuations and/final account, overdue valuations, certificates and payments, any sub-contract problems, disputes, or other issues or potential issues and addresses difficult situations as soon as they arise.

Submit financial reports (including the monthly project reviews) in line with company reporting timetable. Produce reports of standard company templates and COINS software. Review in detail the cost and values, progress, procurement, design status and profitability of the works in hand as well as work planned. Ensure the contracts manager is kept up ot date with the financial status of each project

Qualifications

Degree, MCIOB, MRICS or similar

Salary / Package - Is open to discussion

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