Title: Quantity Surveyor
Location: Beeston, Nottingham, NG9 1LA
Salary: 46,535 - 48,984
This role
Here at MTVH we are looking to recruit a Quantity Surveyor who will be responsible to the Commercial Manager within the Commercial team. You will be carrying out tasks such as being responsible for individual contractor accounts and regular reports and analysis. You will also provide commercial insight and support to ensure financial efficiency is achieved.
You will play a key role in budget management. You will be reviewing applications for payments, as well as creation of weekly and monthly reports for the Commercial Manager and Commercial Director as required
You will be required to liaise directly with the key stakeholders within MTVH as well as contractors to ensure that contracts are achieving their intended goals with regard to financial and performance targets.
What you'll need to succeed
- Experience in working in a planned works quantity surveying / commercial environment
- Experience of working in a social housing / housing maintenance environment (either client or contractor side)
- Understanding of NHF and other bespoke schedule of rate based contracts.
- Good planning, budgeting, organising and prioritization skills. Experience of keeping sound business records
- Strong report writing skills and able to interpret financial and other systems data. A good standard of written business English and a good working knowledge of Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
- Able to build and sustain working relationships with different departments to achieve goals
- Ability to work in a fast paced work environment and manage multiple activities and priorities to a deadline.
- Willingness to take on new responsibilities and a desire to develop new skills to progress within the organisation.
To meet our commitment to providing safe, high quality services to our customers we will complete a basic check with the Disclosure and Barring Service once an offer of employment is made. A new check will be completed every three years.
What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role and if it?s the ideal job for you, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV
Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.
What?s in it for you?
Our benefits include:-
- 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
- 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
- An additional ?Beliefs day? once a year to have an extra a day off
- Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
- Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
- Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
- Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
- Cycle2work scheme
- Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department
- Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
- Tenancy deposit ? interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
- Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
- Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
- Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
- Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation
About us
We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.
Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document
Our promise
Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ?Serving people better every day? to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.
We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other?s wellbeing.
We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we?re doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-
- Gender
- Ethnicity
- LGBTQ+
- Disability
Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.