Quantity Surveyor – London or Croydon
Hybrid Working - Competitive Salary + Benefits Package
Full Time, Permanent
Henry Riley is an international property and construction consultancy, who, for the last 130 years have been industry leaders in cost management, project management, health & safety, and advisory services.
Due to continued growth within the London and South East region, we are looking to strengthen our cost management team of Quantity Surveyors to work across a variety of large scale, exciting developments throughout the South East region.
Henry Riley provide cost management and project management services to an exciting variety of growing clients in the South East region and currently boasts a portfolio of developments which spans across the full breadth of the built environment. This includes projects across the residential, retail and leisure sectors.
We are looking to hire an ambitious Quantity Surveyor who has gained full membership to the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) or is currently working towards chartership and will be looking to attain full membership in the next 12 months. For candidates in the latter scenario, Henry Riley can provide structured support in achieving this via our internal APC Programme, which currently has over 50 members of staff enrolled.
If you would like to join a reputable construction consultancy with ambition at the heart of its core values, then we would love to receive your application for this role.
Key tasks and responsibilities of the Quantity Surveyor role include:
- Working as part of a team of Quantity Surveyors and Project Managers reporting into the Executive Director whilst providing a cost consulting role the client.
- Ensure that our clients achieve their stated objectives through close teamwork, proactive cost control and the provision of contractual advice.
- Attend and/or chair meetings with client.
- Prepare financial reports .
- Monitor the communication of a project status.
- Prepare full tender documentation .
- Provide advice on contractors, specialists, procurement routes, cost and programme solutions.
- Provide advice on suitability and preparation of contract documents.
- Prepare management reports.
- Monitor performance milestones and deliverables.
- Administer cost/variation procedures.
- Carry out full post contract surveying duties including establishing the effect of variations, settlement of accounts and disputes.
- Provide day-to-day cost management of projects from estimate preparation and cost planning through to final account settlements.
Desired qualifications and experience:
- A relevant degree or masters qualification in quantity surveying or similar RICS accredited subject/course.
- Candidates should be highly motivated to achieve chartered status with the RICS and ideally have made significant progress towards achieving this. Full support can be given to completing this after joining Henry Riley through our internal APC programme.
- Demonstrable experience of acting in the lead Quantity Surveying role on large scale, complex projects whilst carrying out a full range of pre and post contract duties.
- Prior experience of working on a variety of projects across the build environment.
- Prior experience of acting in the Employers Agent role is desirable.
- Familiar with common forms of contract such as JCT and NEC.
- Demonstrable experience of carrying out tendering and procurement processes.
- Prior experience of using CostX software and preparing detailed cost plans.
- Ambitious by nature with a positive and pro-active approach to the role as well as a willingness to embrace responsibility on projects and develop professionally.
Company Overview
Investors in People accredited since 1998, Henry Riley is an international property and construction consultancy, who, for the last 130 years have been industry leaders in cost management, project management, health & safety, and advisory services.
Our success isn’t solely down to our ability to be visionary, innovative, and forward thinking, but our people who strive to be ambitious, creative, progressive and aspire to make a difference.
Our Vision is to become a more diverse and sustainable business, so we are delighted to learn from our 2021 Diversity & Inclusion survey our people reported we are a great place to work, scoring above our competitors in opportunities for growth, development, and leadership. This sets us in the spotlight for supporting our people with their growth and development in their careers, excellent work life balance and new hybrid working.
High on our agenda and key to our diversity and inclusion targets, is supporting our people’s mental health and wellbeing. To help us achieve this, we have partnered with Mates in Mind who will be in raising awareness of mental health within our business and the construction industry.
As a business we are working hard to actively reduce our carbon footprint and endeavour to undertake all activities in an environmentally responsible manner. We are very proud to have achieved CarbonNeutral® company certification, in accordance with The CarbonNeutral Protocol, the leading global framework for carbon neutrality.
Henry Riley is an Equal Opportunity Employer
We welcome applications from candidates who are interested in working with us but are not able to commit to a full-time role and/or would require forms of flexible working. Additionally, we provide hybrid working as standard practice.
We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.
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