Senior Quantity Surveyor - Retail Construction
The opportunity
As a Quantity Surveyor at Linesight, you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will gain vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. You will be mentored and supported by industry leaders and given the tools to grow. You will also be involved in and contribute to our business strategy as we continue to evolve. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.
In this role you will:
- Analyse Tenders/Bids: Ensure client value for money through thorough analysis of tenders and bids.
- Support Dispute Resolution: Assist in settling construction disputes and loss and expense claims with full transparency.
- Mentor and Lead: Foster top performance and growth for employees via excellent mentorship and leadership.
- Final Account Preparation: Assist in the preparation and agreement of final accounts, including handling any claims to ensure the client gets the best value from works undertaken.
- Cost Planning: Create estimates and cost plans for key client developments.
- Project Management Support: Support nimble project management and clear decision-making through excellent cost documentation and timely communication.
- Tender/Bid Participation: Actively participate in the tender/bid process from initial documentation through analysis and reporting.
- Oversee Project Spend: Create valuations and cost reports, clearly communicating variations to your team.
We would love to hear from you if you:
- Education and Experience: Have a degree or comparable experience in Quantity Surveying or a related field.
- Cost Management Experience: Possess experience in cost management with varied contracting strategies.
- Technical Understanding: Have a technical understanding within mechanical, electrical, process, or CSA.
- Retail Fit Out Expertise: Have 3+ years’ experience specifically within retail fit out and construction projects.
- Drawing and Schematic Interpretation: Are capable of reading and interpreting services drawings and schematics.
- Communication Skills: Possess excellent IT, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Dynamic Work Environment: Enjoy working in a dynamic environment with the opportunity to manage your own priorities and deadlines.
This specification focuses on the retail fit out and construction sector, ensuring you bring relevant expertise to deliver high-value projects efficiently and effectively.
About us
Since 1974, we’ve been providing a construction consultancy service that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. It takes a special kind of togetherness to create our thriving, authentic culture. We overcome challenges together, delivering better projects and leveraging innovation. We see the potential in our people and we empower them. We’re a business on a journey – an agile business that is proud
to be different.
We are Linesight. Dynamic. Driven. Different.
About Cost Management
Our approach to DE&I
At Linesight, we believe that our success is tied to the success of our employees, and we are committed to creating a workplace that is fair, equitable, and inclusive for everyone. We understand that creating an environment where all employees have an equal opportunity to thrive requires a concerted effort across every stage of their time with us, from hiring and onboarding to promotion, career growth, and development.
As part of this commitment, we have implemented a range of policies and initiatives to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I). This starts with our attraction pipeline and accessible job descriptions, designed to attract a broad range of candidates, and continuing throughout the employee life cycle with DE&I checks built in at every stage. Fairness, consistency, and transparency are the core principles for all our hiring, salary increase, and promotion decisions with built-in gender pay gap checks. Employee and family-friendly policies also enhance inclusion and equity in our teams.
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