Quantity Surveyor

Quantity Surveyor

*We welcome applications from Quantity Surveyors at all levels of experience. Salary will be reflective of skills, knowledge, and experience*

You will be responsible for quantity surveying financial management for projects on the Great Places annual investment programme, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget and to the appropriate quality standard.

You will be required to liaise directly with the key stakeholders within Great Places as well as contractors and consultants to ensure the successful investment programme delivery

What you will be doing

• Support overseeing the annual investment programme estimated value of circa £15m to £20m
• Work with all teams within assets, compliance, building safety and the wider business
• Managing external contractors and consultants
• Analysing data as part of investment programme delivery to ensure appropriate investment decisions
• Drafting reports for presentation at leadership committee
• Provide technical advice in terms procurement, contract selection and appropriate contract terms
• Ensuring Final accounts are agreed and closed to allow works to be capitalised in line with deadlines
• Work with finance business partners to monitor and report expenditure and identify financial risk
• Ensuring compliance with legislative and statutory obligations
• Positive customer engagement
• Represent Great Places at stakeholder meetings

What you'll need

• Established quantity surveying experience and knowledge
• Experience working in property and construction with a good technical knowledge
• Ideally, experience of working in a social housing
• Understanding of building contracts, tendering, procurement and commercial management
• Experience of planning and projects management and managing programme delivery
• Data analysis skills to prepare reports for senior management team
• A good knowledge of IT and systems.
• Build and sustain working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to work in a fast paced work environment, manage multiple activities and priorities to deadlines
• Customer focussed with track record of high customer satisfaction
• Willingness to take on new responsibilities and a desire to develop new skills
• A degree in in relevant discipline
• Professional qualification or working towards, MCIOB, MRICS, MAPM other as appropriate

What we need from you 

• A commitment to understand the challenges and opportunities that exist in the communities in which we work. We particularly value lived experience in social housing  

• A passion to advocate on behalf of people and communities  

• A commitment to work in partnership with others for the benefit of Great Places 

• A commitment to continuous learning and improvement 

• Ability to work flexibly and when needed outside normal working hours to ensure service continuity 

• An ability to work in uncertainty. 

What we give you in return for your hard work and commitment  

• Pension ¦ DC scheme (up to 10% contribution from both colleagues and Great Places)  

• WPA ¦ Healthcare scheme starts at no contribution level with £1250 of savings available per year (option to increase & add family members) 

• Ways of Working¦ We offer some hybrid and flexible working  

• Annual leave ¦Start at 26 days annual leave, increasing up to 30 days within 5 years + Bank Holidays 

• Reward & Recognition ¦ You Count Rewards are individual reward’s for going ‘above & beyond’   

• Professional fees ¦ The business pays the cost of one professional role related membership fee for each colleague 

• The Market Place ¦high street, restaurant & supermarket discounts, gym memberships, cycle to work, smart tech loans and much more 

• Wage Stream ¦ You can access savings opportunities and early access to wages  

• Health and Wellbeing Initiatives ¦ Our colleagues enjoy wellbeing campaigns throughout the year, with activities designed around our four pillars of wellbeing, these include career wellbeing, mental wellbeing, physical wellbeing and financial wellbeing 

At Great Places we believe the wellbeing of our colleagues is vital to enable them to deliver to great services, all your benefits can be used inside and outside of work.  

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