Senior Quantity Surveyor

Application Deadline: 9 April 2025

Department: Commercial

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Alternative Heat Head Office

Reporting To: Head Of Commercial

Description

We are an industry leader within the UK Building Sector with a turnover in excess of £60 million and are on a growth trajectory as we continue to expand in new markets. As such we are hiring for a Senior Quantity Surveyor (focusing on our Data Centre projects) to join our Commercial Team. 

On our Projects within the Data Centre Sector, we assume role of Specialist Prefab M&E Contractor, meaning we have control of all elements of our build;  

• Design, 
• Chilled Water Distribution Systems, 
• LTHW Distribution Systems, 
• Plantrooms, 
• Electrical Distribution Modules 
• Delivery, 
• Installation,  

We are a Market leader in the design and integration of Offsite Manufactured M&E services into the Data Centre Sector throughout the UK, Ireland and Europe.

We are recognised as the contractor of choice, with a large portfolio of successfully delivered projects. 
 
Experiencing significant growth in the sector as the uptake of our services are helping to significantly reduce Data Centre build times. Through close working relationships with our clients, we are continuing to secure multiple repeat orders with projects averaging between £5M and £15M.  We have a high-performing culture as we strive to become the supplier of choice for carbon reduction and offsite prefabricated MEP solutions across the UK, ROI and Europe. We are a team led by our values -  

• Client Focus 
• Teamwork 
• Respect 
• Integrity 
• Progressive 
• Trust 

When you join our team, you have genuine career opportunities to grow with us on projects built from solid client relationships with a strong support network throughout the company.    Job Title | Senior Quantity Surveyor
Location | Banbridge or Dundalk
Hours | 38 hours.  8.00am to 5.00pm Mon to Thurs & 8.00am to 3.00pm Friday
Salary | Competitive depending on experience
Responsible to | Head of Commercial  

Key Responsibilities

We have detailed below some of the key elements of this role, 

• Be responsible for securing the successful financial delivery of projects by controlling costs, progressing monthly valuations, and managing variations and change orders. 
• Liaising with contracts, estimating and pre-construction teams to obtain full understanding of each project scope. 
• Review and set out project package allowances prior to handover for tendering of works by operations team.  
• Review & collate subcontractor package awards. 
• Engage Sub-contractors, handle negotiations, prepare sub-contract documents.  
• Track & maintain monthly job performance reporting and feedback the same to management. 
• Prepare on-time monthly valuations following site measurements and work-in-progress reviews and follow up to make sure that payments are received on time as per the agreed contract conditions. 
• Vette and process monthly subcontractor payments.   
• Managing and forecasting of project Cash flow. 
• Attend monthly commercial meetings to provide update on any ongoing contract specific negotiations and overall job performance. 
• Assist in the commercial activities of the business and provide support/advice in this regard to the Projects Managers as required. 

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Essential Criteria:

• Third level qualification in a Surveying or Cost Engineering discipline or can demonstrate an equivalent level of experience. 
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a similar role.   
• Commercially astute and ambitious.   
• High standard of organisational and time management skills. 
• Sound knowledge of general construction methods. 
• Working knowledge of labour, plant, materials and equipment rates. 
• High level of IT literacy, especially in Microsoft Packages (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook). 
• Excellent attention to detail. 
• Good communication skills. 
• Management experience.  

Benefits

• Full in-house training and career development opportunities.
• Competitive pension scheme.
• Life assurance scheme.
• Health cash plan.
• Full access to smart wellbeing platform.