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Job Title: Quantity Surveyor
Location:Wakefield

Thorn Baker has teamed up with a leading masonry specialist who is looking for an experienced Quantity Surveyor to join their team.

Their proven track record of assisting both large and small, award-winning house builders is a testament to their commitment to bespoke quality across their comprehensive range of specialist stone masonry services ranging from natural stone cladding through to GRC, including GRC consultancy services, from lavish stone entrance porticos to granite and marble worktops. Proudly supplying, installing and repairing/restoring all aspects of stone and specialist masonry they can offer a turnkey solution from a capable specialist to manage the entire procurement and installation process.

What's in it for you:

Competitive Salary
Contributory pension
Continual investment in professional development
Your Responsibilities:

Fully understand the terms and implications of project contracts or framework agreements and ensure that project costs reflect these.
Prepare project costs using agreed Schedules of Rates, built up net costs, sub-contractors quotes and agreed mark-up for general overhead, indirect overhead, direct overhead, risk and profit.
Ensure that sub-contract and purchase orders are issued accurately, on time and to reflect that nature of the project contract.
Maintain a full understanding of the developing project and amend costs to reflect this, ensure that variation information is issued and approved to timescales that facilitate successful project delivery.
Pro-actively monitor and negotiate sub-contract variations to agreement.
Identify and highlight risk and work with the project team to eliminate / reduce this.
Prepare accurate project Cost Value Reconciliations and report these at staged valuations and final account.
Attend site meetings as required.
Required Skills:

Minimum qualificationHND in Quantity Surveying / Construction Management.
At least 3 years'relevant experience within the last 8 years.
Fully conversant with Microsoft Word and Excel.
Excellent communication and negotiation skills
Detail-oriented and proactive team player, with a positive attitude and practical approach
For further information relating to the role, please contact Rhian Newman of Thorn Baker on (phone number removed) or email (url removed)

Key Skills: Renovation, Refurbishment,Restoration, Heritage, Construction, QS, Quantity Surveyor, Management

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