Quantity Surveyor

7 days ago


Durham, Durham, United Kingdom United Living Group Full time

About United Living Group

United Living Group is a leading infrastructure, construction, and property services company in the UK. We help our customers and the communities they serve benefit from resilient infrastructure, affordable homes, and improved living spaces that are fit for the future.

Our Mission

Our mission is to be the partner and employer of choice for designing, building, maintaining, and connecting communities and critical infrastructure, to create a more sustainable and inclusive society.

Our Business

United Living Group is comprised of four complementary businesses, all dedicated to realising our vision of creating a connected, sustainable future:

Property Services

We revitalise homes and communities through the regeneration of living spaces, breathing new life into neighbourhoods. From delivering large programmes of work for social housing providers, to ensuring the highest building safety standards, we provide a range of services for public sector clients.

Infrastructure Services

Our team of infrastructure specialists design, build and maintain critical energy and water infrastructure, for the UK's largest network owners and operators. The work we do supports the requirement for effective solutions to address the UK's decarbonisation goals, and our processes minimise environmental and carbon impacts, whilst ensuring the safe and reliable operation of assets.

New Homes

As experienced and specialist new build housing contractors, we create homes and regenerate areas with communities in mind. We work collaboratively with registered partners, local authorities, and private developers to provide high quality, energy efficient, and sustainable homes for people to live and grow.

Connected

We connect people through fixed-line and wireless telecom infrastructure, ensuring seamless communication and access to information for all. At United Living, we have one of the largest specialist in-house teams for project management, acquisition, design, construction, and maintenance in the UK.

Job Description

Quantity Surveyor - New Homes Pillar

We are seeking a skilled Quantity Surveyor to join our New Homes Pillar. The successful candidate will be responsible for:

  • Supporting the Operations Manager in providing monthly reports to the customer, ensuring that such reports contain accurate forecasts of our rolling draft final account, full information concerning variations and record contractual notices.
  • Developing and maintaining close relationships with customers, consultants, and subcontractors to continuously improve customer experience, improve our company position, and obtain repeat and negotiated business.
  • Evaluating, submitting, and agreeing the price of variations and contract instructions, provisional sums, and value engineering (VE) etc.
  • Preparing and agreeing monthly valuations with the client's representative and ensuring same are invoiced, paid, in full, and on time.
  • Ensuring that any agreement with client representatives is documented and that adequate records are kept in respect of any future claims.
  • Preparing and submitting alternative proposals for materials and specifications to the client for approval.
  • Preparing and agreeing the final account with the client's representative.
  • Preparing and once approved by line manager, submitting all necessary contractual claims, subcontract, and value engineering (VE) etc.
  • Preparing and negotiating interim valuations and final accounts, including all necessary measurement, as well as making sure that any agreement of variations with the supply chain is documented.
  • Measuring, valuing, negotiating, and checking as necessary all subcontract interim and final account applications and processing all associated payments in accordance with the Construction Act and/or other prevailing legislation.
  • Informing the Commercial Manager of any possible claims by subcontractors and preparing and/or seeking direction in preparing any necessary documentation/correspondence to protect the company's interests.
  • Preparing a response to any claim for loss and expense, after liaison with their line manager.


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