Capita have an exceptional opportunity for a highly capable client-side Quantity Surveyor/ Employers Agent to join an expanding organisation specialising in the Private High Rise Residential sector.

Working alongside the Project Manager, in this newly created role you, you will have full accountability for preparing, managing, and reporting all financial costs, managing evaluation of works and leading a team on several UK & Europe based industrial/ commercial projects, each valued up to £100m

Job title:

Senior Quantity Surveyor

Job Description:

What you’ll be doing:

• Produce cost plans & construction estimates based on design information.
• Attending site regularly as well as internal and external client facing meetings.
• Work with and collaborate with key partners, eg, finance, operational teams, consultancies, engineering, sub-contractors & suppliers.
• Provide value engineering options & cost planning, as well as creating a tender pack to be sent to an agreed supply chain list
• Negotiate contract documents and draft contracts for construction works
• You’ll present monthly valuations to the business as well as providing accurate financial reporting & Post contract commercial support for designated packages of work, including subcontract, materials, and direct labour.
• Ensure projects are successfully delivered within cost and time constraints
• Be responsible for work package change control and management

What we’re looking for:

• Substantial Quantity Surveyor / Contracts Administrator experience working within a contractor/ client-side project environment.
• Experience ideally gained in a similar or related industry
• Degree qualified or equivalent and/or hold or working towards professional qualification (RICS, IACCM or similar)
• Ability to estimate change / variations using various methods
• Able to forecast cost and measure cost of work complete
• Good negotiation skills with ability to manage expectations
• Good contractual knowledge and experience

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 specializing 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
• Car allowance additional to base pay
• 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.

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.