Senior Quantity Surveyor

4 weeks ago


Leicester LE SY, United Kingdom Vistry Group PLC Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our team at Vistry Group PLC. As a key member of our commercial team, you will be responsible for managing all costs related to new build residential developments in our Enderby office in Leicester.

Key Responsibilities
  • Manage all costs related to new build residential developments, including site costs, materials, and labor.
  • Collaborate with the Senior Estimator to ensure accurate and up-to-date records of build costs and rates.
  • Attend specification meetings to confirm site-specific requirements and ensure compliance with applicable build regulations.
  • Compile and present tender packages for sub-contract trades, ensuring compliance with Commercial Best Practice Manual.
  • Receive and qualify tenders, compiling analysis sheets for each trade and comparing tender levels with CV1/CV2 estimates.
  • Compile and present CV2 tender summary sign-off, ensuring compliance with Commercial Best Practice Manual.
  • Coordinate the activities of the Material Buyer and Company Estimator to achieve CV1 and CV2 sign-off.
  • Obtain authorization to 'let' sub-contract orders valued over thresholds, as noted in Commercial Best Practice Manual.
  • Place and issue sub-contract orders in accordance with Group Policy and Commercial Best Practice, ensuring budget and program requirements are met.
  • Attend and minute sub-contract order adjudication meetings.
  • Compile reports on contract letting vs. estimate for each site, periodically as required.
  • Liaise with the build department on sub-contractors' performance and compliance with order conditions.
  • Ability to deal with complex consortium sites and attend relevant meetings.
  • Attend project team meetings as required.
  • Complete sub-contract orders to accord with site programmed build requirements, in accordance with Group Policy and Group Rebate schemes.
  • Set up and regularly review with the site management team the PPQA tick sheet to facilitate sub-contract contract work payment.
  • Liaise with company management to provide forecast and site budget information, meeting the business's reporting requirements.
  • Attend a monthly cost valuation meeting.
  • Control and report post-contract cost movements per development every month, updating CV1 and CV2 site-specific reports.
  • Review professional fee provisions and statutory service costs, and credits, with the technical department.
  • Ensure invoices/applications for payments are processed in accordance with Bovis Homes Standard Terms and Conditions of Contract.
  • Maintain a half-yearly site reserve list.
  • Issue Payment Withhold Notices, where a contractor application, or part thereof, is in dispute, in accordance with the Construction Act.
  • Immediately advise management of notification of impending claim or legal action arising from a disputed claim or payment from a Sub-Contractor/service provider.
  • Where necessary, determine a sub-contract order in accordance with Standard Terms and Conditions of Employment, liaising with the Build Department in this respect.
  • Diligently use the Bovis Homes construction system to manage site project administration, including orders, variations, valuations, etc.
  • Assist in the regular review of materials on-site and material valuations.
  • Agree and process all sales variation requests, including works to show homes, stock plots, and sales incentive works, in accordance with Group procedures.
  • Properly categorize on the construction system 'unscheduled' and 'scheduled' order amendments.
  • Settle all variation invoices/applications for payment in accordance with Bovis Homes Standard Terms and Conditions of Contract.
  • Process groundwork's payments/applications for payment using the Bovis Homes AGA payment system, as outlined in Commercial Best Practice Manual.
  • Ensure the collection of retention against all sub-contract orders, in accordance with Group Policy, and manage and certify retention releases on completion of the development.
  • Complete and agree sub-contract final accounts within 6 months of the last legal completion on-site and prior to the first release of retention to the individual sub-contractors.
  • Maintain final account schedules.
  • Maintain completed development provisions on CV1.
  • Maintain CV2 reserves as part of the 'Old Site Reserve' central file.
  • Liaise with the technical department to secure site adoptions and tender, let, and administer maintenance orders, as required.
  • Complete formal site closedown procedure in accordance with Group Policy.
  • Assist the Commercial Director/Manager to ensure:
  • correct financial controls of sites are maintained at all times.
  • all sub-contract payments are recorded and processed through the surveyors and payments clerks, in accordance with the general terms and conditions of purchase orders.
  • Inform the management team of any abnormal cost or circumstances that will have a significant effect on cost or have long-term cost implications.
  • Ensure Quantity Surveyors are pro-active on sites within their daily control, advising and discussing any operation or method where cost savings could be achieved.
  • Mentor, manage, and develop assistant/junior surveyors, ensuring the efficient running of the surveying team.
  • Ensure you keep up to date with legislation changes and attend training and technical training as and when required by the Company.
  • Attend departmental meetings as required.
  • Deal with queries from site managers.
  • Maintain open lines of communication with colleagues in other regions.
  • Ensure all relevant stakeholders are informed of key departmental developments.
About Us

Vistry Group PLC is the UK's leading provider of affordable mixed-tenure homes. Our core values of integrity, caring, and quality shape all we do; our partnership-led approach helps us build sustainable communities where they're needed most.

We're proud that our culture sees everyone treated fairly and respectfully, with diversity and inclusion a top priority and reasonable adjustments provided during the application process.


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