Senior Quantity Surveyor - #1622359

Senior Quantity Surveyor - Northern Ireland - c£Excellent plus benefits

Through close working relationships with their clients, they are continuing to secure multiple repeat orders with projects averaging between £5M and £15M. They have a high-performing culture as they strive to become the supplier of choice across the UK, ROI and Europe.

Key Responsibilities

• Be responsible for securing the successful financial delivery of projects by controlling costs, progressing monthly valuations, and managing variations and change orders.
• Liaising with contracts, estimating and pre-construction teams to obtain full understanding of each project scope.
• Review and set out project package allowances prior to handover for tendering of works by operations team.
• Review & collate subcontractor package awards.
• Engage Sub-contractors, handle negotiations, prepare sub-contract documents.
• Track & maintain monthly job performance reporting and feedback the same to management.
• Prepare on-time monthly valuations following site measurements and work-in-progress reviews and follow up to make sure that payments are received on time as per the agreed contract conditions.
• Vette and process monthly subcontractor payments.
• Managing and forecasting of project Cash flow.
• Attend monthly commercial meetings to provide update on any ongoing contract specific negotiations and overall job performance.
• Assist in the commercial activities of the business and provide support/advice in this regard to the Projects Managers as required.

Essential Criteria:

• Third level qualification in a Surveying or Cost Engineering discipline or can demonstrate an equivalent level of experience.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a similar role.
• Commercially astute and ambitious.
• High standard of organisational and time management skills.
• Sound knowledge of general construction methods.
• Working knowledge of labour, plant, materials and equipment rates.
• High level of IT literacy, especially in Microsoft Packages (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook).
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Good communication skills.
• Management experience.