Assistant Quantity Surveyor

Chasetown Civil Engineering, is a family-owned, market-leading civil engineering business, based in Staffordshire. We deliver high quality and innovative solutions to our clients, specialising in infrastructure, groundworks and related building services with project values ranging between £100,000 and £50m. We keep our clients at the centre of everything we do, remaining true to the founding principles on which the business was established.

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We are part of the Tara Group consisting of Cameron Homes delivering high quality new homes across the Midlands and Keon Homes who work in partnership with local authorities for affordable homes provision as well as delivering homes for the private rental sector (PRS).

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The Tara Group is a family-owned independent company, consisting of four companies involved in the construction of housing. It was originally founded in 1974 by Noel Sweeney and remains in the ownership of the Sweeney Family.  With offices in Chasetown, we employ over 250 across our group and work with over 400 sub-contractors.

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Our approach is to stay true to the Company’s founding principles and values - employing a loyal, highly skilled and valued team; we have some of the best people in the industry and build high levels of trust with our clients.  We have relationships with clients that go back 40 years, and these trusted, long-standing relationships are a testament to the level of service received and the ability to find solutions.

You will be responsible for supporting and/or managing residential Roads/Sewer and Groundwork sites throughout the Midlands area.

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Responsibilities: 

• Supporting with monthly forecast to confirm that resources deployed are targeted to ensure outputs provide a sustainable return.
• Develop close working relationships with internal stakeholders, including Contracts Managers, Buyers etc.
• Excellent working relationships with your clients for all Commercial matters.
• Carrying out timely valuations of work completed on site and ensuring applications for payment are submitted in accordance with each client’s requirements.
• Identifying, valuing and agreement of any variations from drawing design changes and incidental type works requested on site.
• Responsible for ensuring COINs system updates to report on progress of your projects.
• Input and agreement in establishing key procurement and handover dates.
• Supporting with overseeing the sub-contract procurement process and nurturing sub-contractor relationships.
• Processing sub-contract payments and managing sub-contractor accounts.
• Supporting with the production of monthly profit & loss reporting and ensuring compliance with contracted responsibilities.
• Supporting with the production of monthly Cost Value Reconciliations and sharing this information with key stakeholders.
  
  
  • On occasions, provide support to estimating with measurement and production of Bill of Quantities (BOQs).
  • Liason with site teams to pro-actively and efficiently resolve site-based Commercial issues.
  Debt recovery, co-ordinating with QS/SQS to ensure prompt payments from monthly valuations with client QS.

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What we expect from you: 

• Relevant experience within a Graduate/Trainee/Junior Quantity Surveyor role.

• Relevant Commercial degree/apprenticeship/educational background.
• Strong numerical ability with a minimum of a 6 in GCSE Maths.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and organisational skills.
• Tenacity and passion to do the right thing and get it right first time.
• Role model the company values to guide behaviours.
• Takes accountability for decisions and evaluates opportunity to enhance company profitability.
• Professional with the ability to build trust and credibility with key stakeholders.
• Willingness and openness to listen and learn.

Chasetown Civil Engineering is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the Company and to Equal Opportunities in employment.  The Company believes in equality regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins) religion, caste or belief, age, disability, gender, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnerships, surrogacy, adoption, and parental rights.  This includes any incidents of perceptive or associate discrimination and harassment.

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