Quantity Surveyor - Drylining - XENON RECRUITMENT LIMITED : Job Details

My client, a leading Drylining subcontractor, working on packages up to £8M are looking for three Quantity Surveyors to join their teams due to company growth. There is the opportunity to be based in either London or Redhill, Surrey.

Key responsibilities and accountabilities:

• Ensure project risk and opportunity is effectively communicated to manage client’s expectation.
• Build strategic relationships with clients.
• Carry out applications for payment ensuring applications are compliant to the contract requirements and maximise cash flow opportunities.
• Formalise and manage project CVR’s identifying risk and opportunity.
• Control costs through effective management of the site spend inclusive of labour, materials and plant.
• Work with the project lead to ensure project decisions are made with the commercial impact assessed.
• Value additional works and changes to maximise profitability.
• Process operative wages against agreed and communicated project rates.
• Ensure additional works / dayworks are recovered or defect costs reported to site team for future mitigation. 
• Assist in scheduling material and labour values to increase the effectiveness of the material loading and labour valuation on projects.
• Ensure a high level of health and safety is upheld wherever possible.
• Understand an overview of our safe system of work so this can be presented at client meetings when required.
• Support the Company to uphold the highest standards possible.
• Work to the business documents and BMS, raise improvement ideas when identified.
• Understand an overview of our quality compliance system so this can be presented at client meetings when required.
• Assess operative wages ensuring the operations team are satisfied that works are installed compliantly.
• Ensure defective works are commercially managed.

Person profile:

• Passion for delivery and can do.
• Organisational and planning skills.
• Ability to engage with supplier’s and clients.
• Knowledge of the drywall market and products.
• Operate with a sense of urgency and problem solving.