Total 2 job vacancies by Blue Octopus Recruitment Limited

Permanent, Full Time (40 hours per week)

We are looking to recruit a Senior Quantity Surveyor, to join Morgan Sindall Property Services, based out of our Osprey House hub in Chingford, London, working within the Borough of Waltham Forrest. The role will involve managing the commercial elements of specific projects within our planned works and building fire safety.

About the Role

As our Senior Quantity Surveyor, you will manage the day-to-day commercial control, reporting and management of multiple projects from award up to final account, ensuring the Managing QS and Regional Commercial Director are appraised of all progress. You will be responsible for the day to day management of a small team of commercial professionals.

Within the role, you’ll manager the progress of all accounts, both client and sub-contract, through to finalisation. You’ll have effective commercial control of all allocated projects, including the provision of timely submission of valuations, invoicing, cash collection, CVR reporting, payment of supply chain, forecast and Budget setting. You will ensure that forecasts are achieved or exceeded where possible to ensure maximum profitability and value for MSPS and our clients.

In conjunction with the operational team, you will drive productivity, identify opportunity to ensure that regional goals are achieved.

In conjunction with the Procurement Team, you will ensure that the procurement of sub-trades and suppliers is undertaken in a timely and cost-effective manner and manage the timely production of the main/sub-contract final accounts, including re-measurement as necessary to ensure the best result, evaluation and agreement of all variations, extensions of time, loss and expense claims.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead commercial matters for planned projects including building fire safety schemes,
Procurement
Financial performance and periodic reporting, including forecasting, profit / loss, cash flow, etc.
Contract compliance
Meeting / liaison with client / subcontract / supply chain as necessary
Manage commercial risk and opportunity
Develop and agree a commercial strategy which achieves budget and maximises profitability
About You

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor who has knowledge and understanding of measurement and valuation, with strong commercial skills to maximise value recovery. You’ll also have a good understanding of budgets and forecast management, CVR’s and supplementary financial reports and final accounts. Knowledge of planned maintenance is a must with experience of FRA works also desirable. The right person for this role will also have had experience of managing teams and be able demonstrate strong leadership and the ability to develop a small team.

Benefits

Profit Share Discretionary Annual Bonus
26 Days Holiday & Bank Hols
Enhanced Pension Plan
Private Medical (including 24hr GP)
Life Assurance
Share Save
Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Pay
Work Perks Discounts & Vouchers
Buy & Sell Holiday
Flexible Working & Flexible Bank Holidays
Cycle to Work
Volunteering (2 days paid)
Learning & Development Opportunities
Extensive Wellbeing Support, including EAP
Loyalty & Values Awards
Funded Professional Subscription
About Us

Morgan Sindall Property Services provide integrated asset management for housing associations and local authorities, focusing on improving the living conditions of residents and leaving a lasting legacy in the communities we serve. Our services include, responsive repairs, void refurbishments, compliancy services and planned maintenance works.

With over 1000 employees, we focus on a culture which puts people at the core of everything we do, encourages innovative thinking and always puts our customer first.

Build your career with a leading property services company, where we recognise that diversity of thought and talented people are key to our success.

MSPS are proud to support the resettlement of armed forces personnel.

We shortlist and interview for our roles throughout the duration of the advert. Therefore, we would encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. We reserve the right to close any of our adverts prior to the stated closing date should we have a high volume of appropriate candidates.

Please refer to full job description upon completing your application.

Home Based, covering Eastbourne, Worthing & surrounding areas

Here at Stonewater, we are now looking for a Building Surveyor to take responsibility for the delivery of responsive/void, grounds maintenance, planned investment and major works program in Eastbourne, Worthing and surrounding areas, across circa 2000 properties.

Ensuring all projects/work is undertaken in a safe and CDM compliant manner, you will instil and maintain long-term relationships with our key supply chain partners in delivering program of planned investment, major repair projects and responsive maintenance to create a seamless service with shared values. You’ll contribute to performance reports and attend performance reviews with our partners to enable feedback and proactive actions on team delivery and efficiency and investigate and resolve construction/building related defects to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction is maintained.

The ideal candidate will:

Ideally be educated to HND level or have an equivalent professional qualification in construction, housing, management, or property.
Be highly personable with a strong customer focus.
Experience of dealing with complaints and customer queries
Be computer literate and have some experience of housing management systems.
Have proven experience of operating long-term partnering contracts.
Have proven experience of delivering large scale program of Capital Investment component works on time and to budget, across a wide geographical area.
Have proven experience of delivering a responsive/void/service charge maintenance service.
Be fully understanding of CDM compliance.
Have a good understanding of ‘Decent Homes’ requirements.

Appointment to this role will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check, satisfactory references and possession of a valid Right to Work document.

Discover Stonewater:

Stonewater is a leading housing provider. We manage around 39,000 homes, serving 82,000 customers across our portfolio of affordable properties for general rent, shared ownership and sale, alongside specialist accommodation, with an ambitious house-building program.

Our mission is to provide quality homes and services for people whose needs are not met by the open market.

We’re looking for like-minded people to join our team of over 800 talented colleagues who embody our values of being ethical, ambitious, passionate, agile and commercial, as well as people who want to make a difference and transform people’s lives.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and working towards accreditation for becoming a Disability Confident Leader, which allows us to record and report on disability, mental health and wellbeing in the workplace to better support our colleagues. We have also achieved accreditation for being an Advanced Employer for Investing in Ethnicity Maturity Matrix. We are committed to being a Menopause Friendly employer and working towards accreditation our Menopause Friendly accreditation.

Are you ready to #DiscoverStonewater?

Stonewater reserve the right to bring the closing date forward should enough quality applications be received prior to the current closing date.