Quantity Surveyor

Job Description

We are Places for People Developments, we build thousands of well-designed, innovative homes across the UK each year. When we develop new places, we put everything into delivering homes and neighbourhoods that work for the whole community.We want you to join the Places for People Group and the 11,000 other colleagues on our journey; colleagues who have helped to build, manage, maintain places that people are proud to call home and stay active in. How do we do all this We surround ourselveswith hard-working people, collaborative people and big-ideas people. Our people live and breathe our SPIRIT values; we are the place for spirited people.More about your roleWorking across our sites in Scotland you will be responsible for understanding, quantifying, budgeting and managing the costs of the building work involved in a construction project. You work will depend on the development cycle of the site and may startwith working with architects to identify the resources and materials, allocating work out to suppliers, partners and contractors. On occasion you stay with the project through to the end, monitoring the progress of plans and keeping the Senior Quantity Surveyorfully updated and reporting on the results.Being a Quantity Surveyor requires a good working knowledge of the construction industry and a strong interest in keeping up with new developments. There can be some overlap, but the day-to-day roles and responsibilities of a Quantity Surveyor in PlacesDevelopments will vary according to the stage of the project youre working on, meaning this is be a fast-paced and varied role.For more information please download our job profile available on our website.More about youYou will require an appropriate qualification in the built environment, ideally RICS or studying towards. You will however need a good understanding of construction and development, focused on pre-construction. You will also require commercial and financialacumen with the ability to competently manage and track expenditures, financial goals and budgets.This role is highly collaborative and you will need the ability to work as part of a close knit management team and manage numerous activities / projects simultaneouslyboth short and long term. You will work with a number of internal and external stakeholdersand will need to be able to evidence at interview where you have built long-term relationships using your strong influencing and negotiation skills.The benefitsWe are a large diverse and ambitious business, which will give you job security and all the challenge you could wish for. Here people can flourish, thrive, better themselves and work in fantastic communities with inspirational colleagues and customers.We know that theres always more we can do to make you smile, thats why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to help colleagues save money or make their lives a little bit easier which can include:

• Annual bonus
• Excellent holiday pay and sick pay
• Pension with matched contributions
• Training
• Extra perks including huge discounts and offers from shops, cinemas and much more.

Whats nextIf you meet the criteria and are ready to make the next step in your career then click apply. You will be redirected to our careers site where you can discover more about the role, read a full job description and apply directly to us.