Quantity Surveyor

Are you a Quantity Surveyor looking for a fresh challenge? Do you have experience working on new build housing projects? TS Recruitment are actively working with a brilliant housebuilder who are looking to recruit a Quantity Surveyor to join their Leeds office.

Job Role & Responsibilities:

• Work as a proactive key member of the Quantity Surveying team.
• Check and arrange subcontractor payments, obtaining necessary authorisation for passing payments for all elements of subcontractor works.
• You will agree final accounts with subcontractors, ensuring all works have been carried out within budget and analysing costs to assist on future estimates. 
• Assist in keeping the RAMS schedule updated and issued to all relevant parties. 
• Liaise with the Customer Service department on post-completion defects, providing cost advice where necessary. 
• Attend site meetings, project team meetings, subcontractor meetings and surveying meetings as required. 
• Any other reasonable duties as directed by your line manager to support the wider teams. 
• Attend Project development meetings when appropriate, contract pre-start and subcontract package review meetings.
• Receive initial tender information and assist in the preparation of the proposed tender lists and updating of subsequent procurement programmes. 
• Documentation and letters including carrying out preliminary checks on subcontractors. 
• Preparing construction cost analysis, which includes analysis of quotations resulting from the tender enquiry, requesting additional and outstanding information as required. 
• Assess site staffing levels and build programmes with the Construction Director to ascertain preliminary costs, including collating all cost information and preparing the start on site budget. 
• Prepare stage payment schedules to assist in the financing of the works. 
• Carry out pre-order meetings including all necessary Health & Safety requirements, finalising a tender sum and agreeing a stage payment schedule for payment purposes before preparing all contract documentation and placing the order. 
• Place subcontractor orders, including interviews and checking references on selected subcontractors. You will then negotiate the contract sum within the budget, including finalising costs to cover all late variations. 
• Issue variation orders and development changes alongside providing cost advice on major variations prior to issue.
• You will issue revised contract drawings to subcontractors; negotiating the cost of variations including liaising between Buyers and Build Managers.
• You will provide a full range of pricing information for purchaser's extras. 
• Working closely with other departments, including Technical, Finance, Land, Sales and Production.

In return you will receive a salary of up to £55,000, plus a car allowance and company benefits which include a competitive pension contribution, private health care and more.