Position: Quantity Surveyor (Refrigeration Division)

Location: Bristol

Salary: Up to £45,000 per annum

Benefits: Company Car, Company pension scheme, BUPA (couple cover), 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)

Our client is one of the UK’s leaders in providing innovative engineering and refrigeration solutions. They provide refrigeration solutions, UK wide to clients within a variety of sectors including retail, health, education and commercial. This role presents a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious Quantity Surveyor to join their well-established business with an impressive portfolio of clients.

Job purpose:

This is a key position, managing the contractual, commercial and financial aspects within the M&S contract supporting the operations team in delivering projects within agreed timescales and budgets, ensuring the highest level of customer care and service delivery at all times while complying with company policy and procedure.

Key Accountabilities

• To support the operations and commercial team to maintain project expenditure within budget and in compliance with administrative procedures.
• To be involved in negotiation of prices and obtaining quotes for works, materials and plant as required in compliance with company procedures.
• To quality check invoice details from all suppliers, ensuring customer gets value for money on all jobs carried out.
• To build strong relationships with the customer to ensure open communication and expectations of invoicing is always met.
• To negotiate and challenge contractors on cost queries when required to deliver excellent service.
• To prepare and agree priced schedules of work utilising existing schedules of rates.
• To notify, price and agree variations within required timescales as set out in the contract documentation and in compliance with commercial procedures.
• To ensure effective written and verbal communication of all contractual, commercial, financial, corporate and operational issues within the area. Working closely with commercial at all times
• To ensure information and documentation relating to contractual, commercial and financial issues is communicated as required by commercial procedures or contractual requirements. 
• To carry out valuations and agree applications for payment at regular intervals as set out in the contract documentation and in compliance with commercial procedures.
• To prepare and submit regular and accurate cost/value reports in compliance with the laid-down commercial procedures.
• To manage the commercial aspects of subcontracts in compliance with commercial procedures. Includes obtaining quotations, evaluating tender returns, valuing subcontract works and payment, issuing and responding to relevant notices and agreeing subcontract final accounts. 
• To prepare a budget cost plan for each project and ensure schedules are completed within agreed timescales and that all necessary paperwork is completed accurately.
• Support Commercial at supplier meetings where required.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Educated to Degree level, surveying.
• RICS qualified.
• Experience of managing multiple sites.
• Previous experience of developing client relationships at a stake holder level is essential.
• Strong PC literacy, with experience in extracting, collating and presenting performance data.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Excellent planning, organising, prioritisation and project management skills.
• Strong results focus.
• Accountable for own performance and that of the team.
• Effective problem-solving and decision-making.
• Highly flexible and strategic in approach to managing their business.
• Experience in managing financial budgets 
• High degree of flexibility in working hours with willingness to work flexible hours over a 24/7 operation.
• High degree of mobility to travel extensively throughout the area.
• Full driving licence.

Interested candidates should forward their CV to Oliver Fox at PDA SEARCH & SELECTION LIMITED.