Vacancy – Senior Quantity Surveyor

J&D Pierce (Contracts) Limited are looking to strengthen the commercial team with a Senior Quantity Surveyor located at their Glengarnock office. If you have experience with structural steelwork fabrication and erection and are looking for a new challenge with one of the largest structural steelwork contractors in the UK, then please email your CV to careers@jdpierce.co.uk

No agency calls please.

Candidate Requirements

 Core Responsibilities

• All employees are equally responsible for the health and safety of themselves, colleagues, and their working environment.
• Employees actively adhere to the Company Values with conviction and enthusiasm.
• Ensure compliance to the company and industry regulatory requirements to protect the business and its employees.
• Always represent the company in a safe, ethical, and professional manner.
• Maintain good working relationships with both internal and external clients, including colleagues.

Key Objectives

• To provide Quantity Surveying services with minimal direction from the head of department
• Manage all assigned contracts ensuring they are delivered in full, to cost and to programme.
• To perform all duties in accordance with the companies Health and Safety Policy and Quality Assurance procedures
• To act in the best interests of the company and protect the business from unnecessary commercial, reputational, and ethical risks
• Liaise across all company departments to effectively communicate project requirements
• Represent the company in a safe, ethical, and professional manner at all times
• Help to ensure all department objectives are met
• Maintain comprehensive and accurate project records
• To contribute to the full extent of their capabilities to achieve the most effective operational standards and practice
• Maintain high standards of attendance, punctuality, and personal appearance

Main Responsibilities

• Preparing interim applications for payment
• Contract administration and cost control
• Final account preparation
• Issuing early warning notices for changes affecting cost/time
• Reading and interpreting complex structural and architectural drawings
• Pricing variations
• Pricing daywork sheets
• Procurement advice
• Contract and dispute advice
• Working with all company departments involved in delivering projects to time and budget
• Attend meetings and undertake site visits where required
• Engaging subcontractors where works are outsourced
• Certifying payments to subcontractors and issuing payment notices
• Agreeing subcontract terms and conditions
• Agreeing bonds and warranties as required on contracts
• Formulating schedules of works for incorporation into subcontract agreements
• Vesting materials for off-site payments

All candidates should apply with a full CV