Quantity Surveyor

Quantity Surveyor Washington

Position Overview

The Quantity Surveyor plays a crucial role in construction projects by managing costs, ensuring efficient progress, and maintaining financial control. Their responsibilities include assessing client needs, estimating material quantities, negotiating contracts, monitoring subcontractors, and providing legal advice. Additionally, they prepare financial reports and collaborate closely with project stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes.

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Cost Planning / Estimating
• Pre-contract estimating of UFH systems.
• Budget control.
• Procurement advice.
• Contract Negotiation.
• Tender support.
• Post contract cost control.
• Valuations/Applications.
• Final Accounts.
• Researching the cost of items such as materials, transport, labour and equipment.
• Analysing data that can affect costs (such as currency exchange rates and inflation).
• Monitor costs at different stages of a project to ensure it stays within estimated costs.
• Create and manage cost value reconciliation processes.
• Identifying and mitigating risks.
• Manage retentions.

Key Tasks

• Manage quantity surveying activities across multiple projects, ensuring that projects are delivered on time and within budget.
• Prepare accurate cost estimates, including materials, labour, and overhead costs.
• Monitor project budgets and track expenses to ensure that costs are kept within budgetary constraints.
• Support the tendering process.
• Negotiating contracts and schedules.
• Prepare regular reports on project progress, including cost updates and variance analysis, and present findings to senior management as needed.
• Develop and implement cost value reconciliation processes.

Qualifications, Certifications and Licenses

• Understanding of financial processes and developing cost value reconciliation processes
• The ability to work under pressure to meet set goals, budgets and deadlines.
• The ability to read and understand architectural drawings/plans and develop cost estimates.
• Proven experience in estimating, surveying or tendering.
• Strong numeracy skills.
• RICS qualification (desirable, not essential)
• BSc in Quantity Surveying or similar
• Knowledge of Building Services (desirable)