Chartered Quantity Surveyor – Bristol
Are you a newly qualified QS/ Cost Consultant looking for you next career move in Bristol?
We are working on behalf of a leading international consultancy looking to expand there QS/Cost Consultancy team.
The successful candidate will support project leaders in generating a high standard of service delivery, achieving successful outcomes for clients, capturing and sharing knowledge across projects, enhancing the culture of innovation and reinforcing the reputation as a leading commercial sector cost consultant in the region.
Responsibilities
- Conducting feasibility studies and writing procurement reports
- Applying value management techniques at the outset of a project
- Managing estimating and cost planning activities, to include taking ownership of and presenting the final cost plan
- Managing the procurement process, ensuring that all stages (including pre-qualification, enquiry, analysis, selection and contract preparation) are performed effectively
- Ensuring that cost checking and valuation work is managed effectively
- Producing accurate monthly post-contract cost reports and presenting them to the client
- Undertaking value engineering and lifecycle costing
- Negotiating and concluding final accounts
- Taking a lead role in interfacing with the client and other consultants at all project stages
- Supervising and mentoring junior members of the team
- Ability to run projects with minimal supervision and attend project meetings independently
- A team player with a ‘can-do’ attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful and flexible
What we are looking for?
- BSc in quantity surveying or equivalent
- Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
- Pre- and post-contract experience
- Experience in working with JCT and NEC forms of contract
- Good technical writing, client-facing and communication skills (both internal and external)
- Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined and commercially astute
- Ability to run projects with minimal supervision and attend project meetings independently
- A team player with a ‘can-do’ attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful and flexible.
For more information on this role and others we may have please call Daniel Wright for an informal chat. Due to the high number of applications, if you have not received a reply within 7 days, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion. We will keep your details on file for future roles. Thank you.
Girling Jones Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.