Senior Quantity Surveyor / Quantity Surveyor

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Senior or Project Quantity Surveyor | East London / Essex | Permanent | Up to £95,000

The Role:
We're partnering with a well-established contractor looking to appoint either a Senior QS or strong Project QS to join their commercial team on a permanent basis. You'll support the Head of
Commercial and work alongside an experienced Commercial Manager, taking ownership of schemes from procurement through to final account.

It's a hands-on role suited to someone who enjoys variety across refurb, fire safety, cladding remediation and planned works, and who's confident managing costs, supply chain, CVRs, valuations, and commercial reporting. You'll play a key role in ensuring projects run smoothly, profitably, and to compliance standards.

The Projects:
A steady pipeline of refurbishment and improvement projects across London & the South East, typically in the £5m£25m range, including:

• Social housing refurbishment in occupied and decant environments
• Cladding remediation & external envelope upgrades (EWI, fire-stopping, façade works)
• Internal planned maintenance (kitchens, bathrooms, M&E upgrades, heating, rewires)
• Estate improvements, regeneration, and community-focused works
• Smaller works division delivering roofing and fabric upgrades up to a few hundred thousand

Projects are framework-driven, compliance-led and require strong commercial control and a collaborative approach with client and resident-facing teams.

What they're looking for:
• 45 years post-grad experience with a main contractor
• Background in refurbishment, planned works, cladding or social housing projects (ideal)
• Strong commercial management across the full lifecycle procurement to final account
• Confident managing subcontractor packages, variations and CVRs
• Experience working in occupied environments is beneficial but not essential
• Based within reach of East London / Essex

The Company:
A growing medium-sized contractor with a strong reputation across London's refurbishment and improvement sector. With turnover surpassing £50m and rising, they deliver repeat-business frameworks with local authorities, housing providers, and public-sector clients.

You'll join a well-structured commercial team where you won't be lost in hierarchy. Visibility, influence and development are very realistic for the right person and progression is based on impact, not time served.

Also known as:
Senior Quantity Surveyor, Project Quantity Surveyor, QS Refurb & Cladding, Fire Safety QS

Interested?
Michael Ogunyankin (phone number removed) | (url removed)
No pressure. If it sounds like something worth exploring, get in touch for a confidential chat

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