Our client in Worthing, West Sussex are seeking a Quantity Surveyor to join their

Response

Team - ( Housing Response and Maintenance ) As a national Property Services contractor focused on people, sustainability, and exceptional client delivery/customer satisfaction, they seek a Quantity Surveyor to truly share in this ethos; proactively influencing their commercial success long term in Worthing, working with their reputable social housing client completing day to day repairs and voids maintenance works. They have been an established and leading property services company for over 75 years, based across England and Wales, in over 18 locations and 32 Business Units, so very well established Their main customer base is Social Housing and Council/ Local Authority , Housing Associations and this is a reactive maintenance contract within Worthing area. The main criteria is someone with reactive maintenance experience

having managed the commercial aspects of this type of contract before. SOR (schedule of rate contract) experience and knowledge is a big tick. High volume jobs, analytical and spreadsheet familiarity . £66,538 inc car allowance, (6.7K) so base £59,838 plus a private mileage scheme and fuel card , pension, healthcare, life insurance + profit share (last year 14%) Of course this type of experience working on a social housing contract is the goal but they can consider other transferrable industries (if you have response/reactive experience) for example retail (supermarket frameworks) , highways , even telecoms or rail

so used to managing high volumes of low value works. In return, being a critical part of their commercial success will bring you security. Working collaboratively with your operational and commercial teams to make things happen together, you will go further with them , enabling a prosperous career with opportunities to develop, within a stable but organically growing business, holding people at its core. They value their employees and offer an exceptional benefits package: Be part of the company profit share scheme (14% of base salary achieved last year) Private mileage scheme and a fuel card Let them help you prepare for your future with an enhanced employer pension contribution of up to 7% OR a savings scheme. Life, Medical and Permanent Health Insurance 23 days Annual leave, but you may want longer or less, so buy up to 5 days or sell up to 3 days per year. Access to the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity to support your health and wellbeing, including free legal and financial advice. Annual pay reviews Enhanced maternity/ paternity pay. Training and development opportunities Trade discounts from their preferred suppliers for you and your friends and family, and Specsavers vouchers The Quantity Surveyor role: As a Quantity Surveyor, you will actively price materials and labour for their responsive repairs workstream using SORs, whilst managing the financial performance of this works to its completion. Focusing on reducing costs, improving efficiencies, and maximising value, you will have real impact on our profitability. Specific tasks will include: Being responsible for the financial and technical aspects of the contract. This will include procurement, managing budget, direct labour targeting, subcontractor management, invoicing, payments, cash flow, and cost control. Minimising costs where possible, and maximising value. Working with direct labour and subcontractors, ensuring all work issued has labour targets to return agreed profit performance. Developing and maintaining open and trusting relationships with the workforce, our customers, subcontractors, suppliers, and our client. Producing monthly contract valuations of the units actual deliverables against the projected budget (CVRs) What will you bring as a Quantity Surveyor? Proven experience in a similar commercial or Quantity Surveying role - ideally you will have experience of working on Schedule of Rates (SORs) contract and with social housing clients. Proven ability to minimise cost and maximise value, profit, and cash flow. Strong IT and Microsoft excel skills- this is essential. Ability to process high volumes of data analysis. Experience in working with direct labour and subcontract procurement.

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