Senior Quantity Surveyor
hace 4 días
Chesterfield
Cumming Group is an international project and cost management consultancy delivering innovative solutions in construction, real estate, and infrastructure. With a commitment to collaboration, transparency, and performance excellence, we support some of the world's most respected clients across diverse range of sectors. \n \n Essential Duties & Responsibilities: \n\n • Assume day-to-day delivery responsibility for projects and demonstrate the ability to take on tasks with minimal supervision.\n, • Strengthen our service delivery capability and promote knowledge capture, sharing and innovation.\n, • Prepare budget estimates, cost plans and client reports.\n, • Provide risk and value management.\n, • Contract administration including preparation of valuations, forecasts, cost reports and attendance at project meetings.\n, • Preparation of bills of quantities, schedules of rates, or other methods of work evaluation.\n, • Deliver all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner to a high standard of quality.\n, • Manage the delivery of work through proactive involvement where appropriate and through performance management of personnel to ensure work is completed in a timely manner to a high-quality standard.\n, • Undertake service delivery is in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Practice, particularly Health and Safety and Quality Assurance.\n, • Provide services in compliance with the client's corporate governance procedures where applicable.\n, • Achieve all objectives as required by the annual performance review process.\n, • Work to deadlines set by the Project Team Leader.\n, • Filing of project correspondence in accordance with requirements.\n, • Support bid and tender preparation and business development.\n, • Develop our business; networking and developing client relationships.\n, • Demonstrate a commitment to continuing professional development and continuous improvement.\n, • Administer change control processes for the services we provide.\n, • Provide advice on procurement and contracts.\n, • Prepare and evaluating tenders, contractor selection and contract documentation.\n, • Support the implementation of strategic initiatives at service and sector level.\n, • Assist in providing leadership to the staff, where required. Resolve conflicts of priorities and personalities relating to work with the appropriate Director or Associate.\n, • Assist in mentoring and coaching team members, ensuring that staff and new starters are developed to support the successful growth of the Practice and development of their career.\n\n \n Knowledge & Skills Required: \n\n • Deliver results in a client facing role including:\n, • Confidently respond to a client request; as well as understanding when to escalate client issues to senior members of the team.\n, • Provide innovative solutions to improve project delivery.\n, • Ability to show resilience and resourcefulness in the face of highly complex challenges.\n, • Commitment to outperforming client expectations.\n, • Support stakeholder management.\n, • Deal diplomatically with a wide range of stakeholders in a flexible environment, subject to change.\n, • Demonstrate flexibility in response to changing requirements and routines.\n, • Demonstrate a high degree of integrity.\n, • Show strong leadership skills and demonstrable ability to lead, motivate and manage teams including the supply chain.\n, • Starting to manage conflicting priorities and organise workloads in conjunction with the appropriate Director.\n, • Starting to prioritise and self-manage with ability to work in a high-pressure environment.\n\n \n Preferred Education and Experience: \n\n • Ideally degree qualified: construction, cost management, engineering, quantity surveying or other RICS accredited degree.\n, • MRICS / other equivalent qualification or experience.\n, • Some formal leadership development training.\n, • 5+ years’ experience.\n, • Strong knowledge of construction industry technical matters.\n, • Good experience of industry standard forms of contract, typically JCT and NEC.\n, • Good pre and post contract technical cost management skills.\n, • Good core technical skills.\n, • Strong oral and written communication skills.\n, • Strong IT skills for the role including MS Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint.\n, • Developing interpersonal skills with both clients and staff. Good interpersonal skills with both client and staff\n, • Good analytical skills, sound judgement and an aptitude for forward planning.\n, • Energetic and motivated with natural drive and an innovative flair, resourcefulness and ability to adapt to change.\n, • An ability to think clearly and make reasoned decisions, explaining the logic employed.\n, • Some experience of managing people and delivering multiple or complex projects.\n\n \n Cumming Group is committed to creating a diverse workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All job applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, "race" (includes nationality, national / ethnic origin, colour), marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, gender assignment, religion and belief. \n \n Note for Recruitment Agencies: \n We prefer to hire directly, and we will be in touch with our PSL Agencies if this role is eligible for release. \n