Total 13 Construction / Property job vacancies in Bury, BL9 8RN

Senior Quantity Surveyor - Highways - Bury St Edmunds

Are you a highly experienced and commercially astute Senior Quantity Surveyor with a passion for delivering successful highways projects?

We are seeking a motivated and driven individual to join our team in Bury St Edmunds, working on a range of exciting and challenging projects involving highway improvements and maintenance.

About the Role:

As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you will play a key role in the successful financial management and delivery of our projects. You will provide commercial leadership and guidance, ensuring cost-effective delivery within budget. Your responsibilities will include:

• Developing and maintaining detailed cost plans, estimates, and budgets.
• Managing and negotiating contracts with sub-contractors and suppliers.
• Monitoring project costs and identifying potential cost overruns.
• Implementing effective cost control measures.
• Preparing and analyzing cost reports and providing regular updates to the project team and stakeholders.
• Ensuring compliance with relevant contractual and legal requirements.
• Mentoring and guiding junior members of the Quantity Surveying team.

About You:

• Proven experience as a Senior Quantity Surveyor on large-scale highways or infrastructure projects.
• Strong understanding of highway construction principles and practices.
• Excellent commercial acumen and negotiation skills.
• Proficient in cost management software and tools (e.g., CostX, Asite).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to lead and motivate a team.
• A relevant degree in Quantity Surveying or a related field.
• Membership of a relevant professional body (e.g. RICS) is essential.

What We Offer:

• A challenging and rewarding opportunity to work on a range of exciting and complex projects.
• A competitive salary and benefits package.
• The opportunity to work with a talented and dedicated team.
• A supportive and collaborative work environment.

If you are a highly experienced and motivated Senior Quantity Surveyor with a passion for delivering successful highways projects and making a difference, we encourage you to apply.

To Apply:

Please submit your CV and a covering letter outlining your relevant experience and qualifications to [email protected]

We look forward to hearing from you!

Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.

Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.

Quantity Surveyor - Highways & Civil Works - Bury St Edmunds

Are you a skilled and experienced Quantity Surveyor with a strong background in both highways and civil works?

We are seeking a motivated and results-oriented individual to join our team in Bury St Edmunds, working on a range of exciting and challenging projects involving highway improvements, maintenance, and associated civil works.

About the Role:

As a Quantity Surveyor, you will play a key role in the successful financial management and delivery of our projects. Your responsibilities will include:

• Preparing and maintaining accurate cost estimates, budgets, and tender documents for both highways and civil works projects.
• Managing and negotiating contracts with sub-contractors and suppliers for both disciplines.
• Monitoring project costs and identifying potential cost overruns for both highways and civil works components.
• Implementing effective cost control measures for both highways and civil works projects.
• Preparing and analyzing cost reports and providing regular updates to the project team and stakeholders.
• Ensuring compliance with relevant contractual and legal requirements.
• Assisting with the measurement and valuation of works for both highways and civil works.

About You:

• Proven experience as a Quantity Surveyor on highways or infrastructure projects, with experience in civil works such as drainage, earthworks, and site preparation.
• Strong understanding of highway construction principles and practices, as well as civil engineering principles and methods.
• Excellent commercial acumen and negotiation skills.
• Proficient in cost management software and tools (e.g., CostX, Asite).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• A relevant degree in Quantity Surveying or a related field.
• Membership of a relevant professional body (e.g. RICS) is desirable.

What We Offer:

• A challenging and rewarding opportunity to work on a range of exciting and complex projects.
• A competitive salary and benefits package.
• The opportunity to work with a talented and dedicated team.
• A supportive and collaborative work environment.

If you are a skilled and motivated Quantity Surveyor with a passion for delivering successful highways and civil works projects and making a difference, we encourage you to apply.

To Apply:

Please submit your CV and a covering letter outlining your relevant experience and qualifications to [email protected]

We look forward to hearing from you!

Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.

Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.

Your new company
A real estate firm based in North Manchester with an established team of property managers and building surveyors. You will be working alongside a team of 3 property managers looking after properties across the NW and North Wales.
The company as a whole is 18 people strong and looking to add to the property management team. Based in North Manchester the office is easily commutable on public transport but the role also comes with a parking space.

Your new role
In this role you will be managing a mixed portfolio of blocks of flats, apartments and houses, liaising regularly with landlords and tenants. On daily basis you will be involved in property inspections, fire alarms and emergency lighting testing, assisting in preparation of budgets, liaising with suppliers and arranging work to be carried out.

What you'll need to succeed
You will have at least 12 months experience in residential property management/ block management. If you are an organised individual with great communication skills and customer service, we would love to hear from you.
This role will require you to travel across for property inspections on regular basis, you will need to have a full DL and a car.

What's in it for you?
Together with a salary of up to £26,000 you will be paid mileage at 45 pence per mile, you will get a parking space, pension contribution, private healthcare after successful completion of the probation period, death in service. If you are looking for a friendly and supportive environment with further career progression available, this is the role for you.

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.

Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk

Service Care Solutions are working alongside a successful law firm, based in Greater Manchester, which needs a Commercial Property Senior Solicitor to join its growing team.

This role pays a competitive salary of £50,000 - £60,000 annually

Key Responsibilities:

• Draft and negotiate high-value lease agreements, purchase agreements, option agreements, and development agreements.
• Provide expert legal advice to clients on all aspects of commercial property law, including property rights, zoning laws, development projects, and land use regulations.
• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of junior solicitors, paralegals, and administrative staff within the commercial property department.

About you:

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience in commercial real estate or property law with at least 7 years PQE.
• Ability to conduct in-depth legal research and analysis.

Benefits:

• Pension Scheme
• Bonus Scheme
• Holiday Allowance
• Hybrid Working

If this Commercial Property Senior Solicitor role sounds like an opportunity that is right for you or someone you know, then don't hesitate to get in touch with Aanisah Khan via email, Aanisah.Khan@servicecare.org.uk, or via phone at 01772208969.

We also welcome referrals for this position, where a successful recommendation would be worth £250.

Head of Housing Property
Salary £63,000 to £68,944

At Bury Council we are ambitious as a stock owning authority to deliver safe and secure homes for our residents, fostering vibrant neighbourhoods where tenants are at the heart of our communities. We have reacquired our stock of nearly 8,000 homes, and it is our vision to transform how we work to be a social landlord of choice, creating places where individuals aspire to live. We want housing to be an integral part of our council services, at the heart of supporting residents to lead healthy, fulfilling lives, and be central to our wider ambitions of inclusive growth and regeneration.

This is one of four key roles in our team that are integral to shaping our vision to build a service that is tenant focused, is fit for purpose and ensure that our homes are safe and meet decent homes standards, where we support those that are most in need.
Central to the management of housing assets in the borough will be our Head of Housing Property, taking strategic and operational leadership for maintenance, capital programmes and major works. You will be central to ensuring that our compliance and stock condition data is well managed and accurate to support our investment and maintenance programmes. As an experienced property and asset manager, you will bring confidence in developing new systems and reporting processes to collate asset intelligence, customer insight, customer feedback, management information and risk data. This is a critical role in ensuring we achieve our ambition, through regulatory compliance and meeting decent homes standards.

This is a unique opportunity to join us at a key point in Bury’s journey, delivering a vision where social housing empowers residents to be part of our borough’s ambitions for the future. We are seeking a values-driven individual who is passionate about our vision, who believes in the power of what we are trying to achieve. Let’s Do It! For further information see our microsite: Bury Council | (bury-leaders.co.uk), or contact GatenbySanderson, Philip Emms (07590 225472) or Delcia Coutinho (07741 264892).

Technical Interviews
w/c 25th November 2024
Stakeholder Panels And Interviews
w/c 9th December 2024

Are you an experienced Quantity Surveyor looking for a new challenge? We have an exciting opportunity for a Commercial Quantity Surveyor to join our team at UKPN Services, based in Bury St Edmunds. This permanent role offers a competitive salary of £76,229, plus a 3% bonus.

In this role, you will report to the Area Commercial Manager and provide quantity surveying support across long-term contracts and competitively tendered client projects. You will manage all commercial matters, including contract set-up, management, pricing, service delivery, scope change, and dispute resolution, ensuring compliance with standards and maximizing profit delivery.

You will lead a commercial project team, managing clients, sub-contractors, and supplier contracts. Your responsibilities will include preparing and verifying pricing models, tender documentation, and recommendations, as well as collaborating with project managers to ensure projects are managed according to contracts and deadlines.

We offer a range of additional benefits, including annual leave plus bank holidays, a personal pension plan with contributions from UK Power Networks, a tenancy loan deposit scheme, tax-efficient benefits such as a cycle-to-work scheme, a season ticket loan, occupational health support, and discounted access to sports and social clubs.

Join us and be part of a team that values customer obsession, inclusion, agility, and learning. Apply now and take the next step in your career with UKPN Services. The closing date for applications is 18/10/2024. Please see the full job description by clicking apply directing you to our careers page.

Service Care Solutions are currently working alongside an expanding Local authority based in Greater Manchester. They are seeking a Commercial Property Lawyer to join their team on a contract basis. If you have experience in Commercial Property and are looking for a new challenge, Then this Commercial Property Lawyer role could be the perfect opportunity for you. Please find below further details with regards to this position and assignment.

Role: Commercial Property Lawyer

Location: Manchester/Fully Remote

Rate: £45 - £55 an hour

Contract Length: 3 Months ongoing

Responsibilities:

• Handle your own Commercial Property Caseload from start to completion.
• Handle Property law matters in relation to Corporate support, Acting for lenders and Acquisition and sale of property for development, land promotion, options, conditional contracts and coverage.
• Provide outstanding client care at all times and have professional approach

About you:

• A qualified Solicitor, Legal Executive or Barrister with 2 Years PQE in property law.
• Experienced in managing complex caseloads of Commercial Property matters
• Good understanding of the commercial environment locally.

Benefits:

• Flexible working
• Hybrid Working
• Weekly Pay

If you or someone that you know would be interested in applying to the Commercial Property Lawyer vacancy, then don't hesitate to get in touch with Aanisah Khan via email, Aanisah.Khan@servicecare.org.uk, or via phone at 01772208969.

We also welcome referrals for this position, where a successful recommendation would be worth £250.

Senior Commercial Property Lawyer needed in Bury £30ph paye ref 0009 2697 / 1

Full time hours on a temporary basis.

Will consider remote workers.

Senior Quantity Surveyor

Location: Suffolk, Bury St Edmunds - some remote working available, with travel to the office required

Contract: Permanent, Full-Time - flexible hours available if desired, just let us know

Salary: Up to £70,000 depending on experience

About the Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our client Natural Resources and Nuclear team based in Bury St Edmunds. This role offers an exciting opportunity to be involved in the delivery of key commercial objectives, ensuring profitability and cash collection while providing valuable commercial advice to operational teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure that business targets and client KPIs are exceeded, identifying and resolving problems at an early stage
• Produce and provide cash flow forecasts, budgets, and financial and contractual performance forecasts to the management team and external stakeholders.
• Prepare and disseminate budgets, ensuring that managers are briefed and able to monitor and react to budget variances.
• Review monthly CVRs with the team prior to submission to the Managing Quantity Surveyor/Commercial Manager, ensuring compliance with business timescales and utilization of commercial and administrative systems, budgets, and cost control procedures.
• Operate risk and opportunity schedules as live documents, developing mitigation measures where risks are identified.

This role is ideal for you if you:

•      Have experience at a senior level in a relevant industry or equivalent.
•      Possess an appropriate qualification and have sound commercial and business knowledge.
•      Have a thorough understanding of the NEC suite of contracts or similar.
•      Possess excellent IT skills, specifically within Microsoft Office and similar software.

Benefits:

• Holiday entitlement - 26 days plus bank holidays
• Pension Scheme with an input of 4.5 to 7.5%
• Life Assurance at 4 times the annual salary
• 24/7 GP service, this provides you and your family with fast and unlimited access to a virtual GP surgery from anywhere in the world!
• Flexible Benefits - you can pick and choose the ones that mean the most to you, this can include additional life assurance for you and your partner, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, health care cash plan, personal accident insurance, Halford's car scheme which includes tyre changes and MOT offers, tech scheme, winners club and many more
• Employee Share Plan

If you are a proactive and detail-oriented professional looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity, we would love to hear from you.

Apply Today!

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Job Description
We have a permanent, full-time opportunity for an Estate Assistant to join our Estates team working 35 hours per week (Monday to Friday, from 08:00am to 4:00pm), earning £23,023 per annum. This is a full-time opportunity, working 35 hours per week to support our team providing high quality grounds services to schemes - predominantly covering Aylesbury, Buckingham, Leighton Buzzard, and the surrounding areas. There will be times when you will be expected to cover other areas when required, but company van will be used for travel when this is necessary. All PPE will be provided by Guinness.

Reporting into the Estates Services Officer you will be responsible for providing high quality cleaning services to our schemes. We are looking for someone who has good customer service skills as you will be interacting with our customers and colleagues, and you would be working both within a team and on your own. The work can sometimes be quite physically demanding.

Some of the key duties involved are:

• Grounds, maintenance, and external gardening work (Hedge trimming, grass cutting, weed and moss control etc).
• Cleaning internal and external communal areas.
• Using mechanical cleaning tools.
• Cleaning of internal communal areas including lifts, corridors (mopping dusting and vacuuming).
• Bin store/bulk waste management.
• Litter picking.
• Customer interaction.

Work Schedule

• Monday to Friday - 8am - 4pm.
• No weekend working.

Essential Requirements

• Full clean UK driving licence.

Interviews will take place on 03/04/2024 on MS Teams.

Your Welcome Bonus is payable in 2 parts. £500 is paid in your first month's salary and £500 is paid when you pass your probation. To be eligible for the Welcome Bonus you must be an external applicant and not currently employed by The Guinness Partnership.

Please note: Guinness employees who have left the company within the last 12 months are not eligible to receive recruitment incentive payments

The Guinness Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all colleagues, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships

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About Us

The Guinness Partnership is one of the leading providers of affordable housing and care services in England. We build and manage homes and provide housing services for around 140,000 customers nationwide. Our vision is to deliver great service, provide great homes, to be a great business and to be a great place to work. Because everything we do is about our customers, our communities and our people, any profit we make is re-invested in new and existing homes and improving services.

The Guinness Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all colleagues, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Job Title: Assistant Quantity Surveyor

Location: Norwich & The Southeast

Package: £35,000 - £43,000 + package

As the Assistant Quantity Surveyor, you will be working with the commercial team on a healthcare project in Norwich.

Responsibilities

• Reporting to the Senior Surveyor / Commercial Manager.
• Administration of subcontract works packages
• Assist in the production and issue of commercial notices, to both the Client and Subcontractors.
• Provide information to the Commercial team.

Requirements:

• Experience working for a UK main contractor.
• Ambitions to progress to the Quantity Surveyor.
• Ability to use Microsoft Office and bespoke packages.
• Good organisational skills and the ability to prioritise workloads and can work to tight deadlines.
• Willingness to undertake training and development.

This is your chance today to join a global leader in Construction who successfully delivers over 70,000 projects each year which is astonishing. You'll have the opportunity to contribute to ground-breaking projects, using the very latest tools and technology to solve complex problems, constantly learn new skills and take your career in the right direction.

Please contact Sam for more information.

Randstad Construction Property Engineering is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

I am looking for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join a commercial team in the Southeast to focus and lead the team on a healthcare project.

About The Role:

As the Senior Surveyor, you will play a pivotal part of the business, where you will be the number 1 on the project and will have full accountability for all commercial duties.

Duties:

• You will manage the project commercial team ensuring all contract obligations are met and process obligations are complete with particular reference to Procurement, Sub-contract orders, Managing Supply Chain, Measurements and Valuations, Contractual Notices and Valuing Change.
• You will complete and submit Monthly Cost Reports, Procurement Strategy Updates and Internal/External Progress Reports alongside developing and implementing internal and external tender stage and delivery strategies.
• You will agree to external valuations upstream/downstream to maintain a positive project cash flow and produce and agree main and subcontract final accounts.

What's in it for you?

• A leading salary for the region.
• Flexible hybrid working.
• Car Allowance / Company Car.
• Extensive corporate benefits.
• One of the best learning and development programmes.
• Industry leading family leave benefits.
• The opportunity to be part of a well respected and very successful tier 1 contractor.
• An attractive order book well into 2025.

My client is always looking for a variety of new talent to join their team, to help them grow and innovate as a business. So, if you're a Senior Surveyor looking for a new role whose skill set may be transferable to this role then apply today!

Please contact Sam for more information.

Randstad Construction Property Engineering is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Your new company
A well reputed organisation based in Bury St Edmunds.

Your new role
This is a new and exciting Property Administrator job. You will be joining an 8-person professional and collaborative team. Duties include but not limited to:

• Providing assistance to property managers and account managers
• Assist in the day to day running of the office
• Primary point of contact in the office, answering telephones and greeting visitors
• Undertake accompanied viewings
• Referencing prospective tenants, preparing tenancy agreements
• Dealing with various notifications and updating certifications
• Maintaining property adverts on various websites, social media and ordering letting boards
• Organising small events or promotional materials

What you'll need to succeed

• Confident in the use of various computer software packages, particularly Microsoft Office
• Experience of working on a property management software program would be beneficial.
• Social media experience
• You will need to be very well-organised, conscientious and capable of dealing with a wide range of people.

What you'll get in return
In return, you will have the chance to work as part of a well-established and professional team with a competitive salary.

• Competitive salary
• Monday to Friday 9-5
• 100% office based

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

Hays EA is a trading division of Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited and acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk