Quantity Surveyor

Quantity Surveyor

Career Progression

€90,000

Fantastic opportunity to work with one of the top contractors in Ireland, they work within a number of area’s including Residential, Commercial, Fitout, Industrial, Healthcare, Educational and Retail. Great progression opportunities with enticing salaries being offered for the ideal candidate. EXET 22

The Role 

• Liaise with customers and project managers
• Manage the end to end tendering and procurement process for all sub-contractors and suppliers ensuring a robust approach to commercial and cost management
• Review tender enquiries and tender analysis for projects
• Cost Management, ensuring the projects remains in budget
• Develop a suite of preferred partners for all disciplines, negotiating the best possible terms in the process
• Negotiate/Renegotiate best fit legal agreements with all 3rd parties
• Manage the budget exercising good cost control practices and driving maximum commercial value
• Contribute to the energy purchase process together with the EV Engineering Team
• Work in collaboration with project teams to identify, implement and monitor efficiency plans throughout the lifecycle of a project
• Management of commercial and contractual aspects of relationships with customers, consultants and subcontractors
• Preparing interim valuations, identifying and valuing variations
• Compile and issue invitations to tender, analyse subcontractor quotations and make recommendations for placement of orders 
• Attend pre-contract meetings, liaise with a wide range of construction professionals, and ensure timely completion of jobs
• Manage project performance and report to management team
• Work closely with contract and site management staff to support the smooth running of the office and the site, carrying out other duties as required
• Carry out reconciliation of cost and value to date/forecast to keep the management team informed of project performance

What you need

• Hold Degree in Quantity Surveying / Construction Management 
• Ability to work on large scale, high headcount construction sites & sub-contractors essential.

• Highly motivated hard-working individual who can work on their own or as part as a team
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
• Great communication skills both verbal and non-verbal
• 4+ years’ experience

• Process contractual claims and all associated records.
• Look for opportunities to maximise revenue and reduce cost and identify and investigate losses.
• Advise and support with project correspondence.
• Negotiating subcontract and suppliers’ prices and terms.
• Ensure final accounts are closed in a timely manner.
• Prepare subcontract and suppliers documents.
• Prepare and review monthly cost reports.
• Ensure risk registers, variation trackers and extension of time tracker sheets are reviewed and updated monthly
• Variations: measurement and pricing.

Who are we looking for?

• Liaise with Commercial Manager and Contracts Manager when dealing with internal stakeholders and client’s representatives while on site including attendance at meetings
• Strong time management skills.
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
• Strong understanding of the construction industry and working on site
• Ability to use time productively, maximize efficiency and meet challenging work goals

What’s in it for you?

Opportunities to work with a great team on some of Irelands largest and most exciting construction and civil engineering projects. Opportunity to develop your skills to the highest industry standards while earning competitive salaries.

• Work in collaboration with project teams to identify, implement and monitor efficiency plans throughout the lifecycle of a project
• Establish, monitor, and maintain reporting arrangements and provider relationships 
• Manage and monitor project and programme budgets providing the necessary information to enable an accurate review of cash flow and position on contracts.
• Administer all contracts and PO’s in line with agreed budget expenditure
• Contribute to broader Future Fuels projects as require