Location – Birmingham Brindleyplace

Capita is currently recruiting for a Senior Employer’s Agent and Quantity Surveyor who will be advising on construction costs and contract management activities, monitoring compliance of construction requirements and standards on various projects.

Job title:

Senior Employer’s Agent and Quantity Surveyor

Job Description:

What you’ll be doing:

The role will entail a broad scope of work, including:

• Undertaking the role of Employer’s Agent / Contract Administrator
• The opportunity to work across residential sector
• Preparation of cost plans and budget estimates
• Understanding of construction contracts
• Preparing, regulating, and analysing costs for tenders and contracts
• Valuing work completed on site and certifying payments
• Assessing value for money
• Estimating cost variations
• Preparing cost reports and cash flows
• Completing final accounts

What we’re looking for:

The right individual will be:

• Experienced in the roles of Quantity Surveyor and Employer’s Agent
• Confident at client meetings
• Ambitious and keen to develop
• A team player and keen to work closely with clients and colleagues
• Committed to the RICS and completing the APC, if not already achieved
• Excellent at communicating and managing workload
• Excellent at problem-solving
• Methodical in their approach to tasks
• Ideally experienced in JCT contracts

• Have strong technical knowledge of construction
• A cost estimating background is desirable

About Capita Real estate and infrastructure

At Capita Real estate and infrastructure, we create places where people can prosper.

Today, critical infrastructure and public building projects need to be sustainable and environmentally appropriate. They must deliver value for the people that will use them - local communities and businesses - for decades to come. The wide range of demands requires a more holistic approach to design. That’s where we come in.

Our clients rely on our commitment to understanding their challenges and finding smarter solutions, and a broad range of experts offering a distinctively diverse set of skills. Our leadership team, who are practitioners themselves, understand what it takes to deliver.

Our culture is built on over 100 years of delivering excellence and creating solutions for critical infrastructure challenges. This enables us to provide a different perspective and approach; one based on what our clients need and can afford.

From engineering and architectural innovation to environmental sustainability and technologically enabled project delivery, we are renowned for our breadth of expertise and holistic, collaborative approach.

We’re a unique team specialising in infrastructure and buildings; the physical networks which keep the country moving and the places where people and communities can prosper

What’s in it for you?

• A competitive basic salary
• 25 days’ holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave
• The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice
• a discretionary annual bonus based on performance / car allowance or company car dependant on experience
• Company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks…and plenty more
• Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology
• Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform
• Remote Working 

You’ll get the chance to follow your chosen career path anywhere in Capita.

You’ll be joining a network of 63,000 experienced, innovative and dedicated individuals across multiple disciplines and sectors. There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career, and we’ll provide the support you need to do just that. Our purpose is to create a better outcome for you.

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What we hope you’ll do next:

Choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you. 2 stage interview process with competency-based questions

To view our Covid-19 and process adjustments information, please visit the Capita Careers site.

Equal Opportunities

We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. During the application process, you’ll be asked to share your personal characteristics and data with us. This helps us understand our audience so we can make sure we are doing everything we can to attract a diverse range of people and ensure our recruitment processes are fair and inclusive.