Bellway is a FTSE 250 house builder, headquartered in Newcastle upon Tyne, which operates 22 trading divisions across England, Scotland and Wales. The company has grown from a family firm, established more than 70 years ago, into a respected national brand, selling over ten thousand homes a year.

At Bellway we recognise that people are the key to our success and our goal is to provide a rewarding and fulfilling career in line with our values of quality, service and trust. In addition to this we are committed to being a more inclusive employer and invite applications from a variety of backgrounds.

There is an exciting opportunity to join Bellway, one of the UK’s largest house builders. Our Yorkshire Division, located in Leeds is looking to recruit a Quantity Surveyor to join the Division’s Commercial department.

The Role

This role of Quantity Surveyor is responsible for managing the commercial aspects of each development. This includes managing the costs for each site and ensuring that targets are met by managing and controlling the budgets and valuations.

The Quantity Surveyor reports to the Commercial Manager.

Principal accountabilities of the role include:

• Produce draft budgets and site start budgets for each site allocated to the Quantity Surveyor.
• Produce quarterly valuations and complete material ‘cost to complete’ exercises for each site the Quantity Surveyor is responsible for.
• Produce sub-contract payments and final accounts, ensuring that the sub-contractor has signed these off.
• Produce sub-contract orders, ensuring they are authorised by the authorised representative, together with all necessary documentation to comply with Group Commercial Policy.
• Complete on-site measurements and assess payments to contractors.
• Attend and contribute to various meetings, such as pre-order meetings, quarterly valuation meetings and project review meetings with senior management, construction team as well as external contractors.
• Manage all sub-contract orders on site, meeting sub-contractors as and when required.
• Maintain trade specifications.
• Price customer extras and liaise with sales department as necessary.
• Manage Professional Fees Budget.
• Assist with material buying when required.
• Assist the Estimator and / or Commercial Manager with take-off’s for land appraisals when required

Experience, Qualifications and Skills

Experience

• Experience of working as a Quantity Surveyor or Surveyor with a residential house builder.

Qualifications and Training

• HND/HNC Building Studies
• GCSE Grade C/4+ or equivalent in English and Maths
• Current CSCS card or equivalent is desirable

Skills and Aptitude

• Strong communication and listening skills, with good negotiation skills
• Highly motivated to deliver quality developments
• Ability to work on own as well as part of a team
• Excellent attention to detail and demonstrates ability to meet deadlines
• IT literate and the ability to adapt to new systems
• Good administration skills
• Committed to diversity and inclusion

The Role and Working Conditions

• Willing to be flexible in respect to day to day duties and hours worked.
• Office based role, with travel within the Divisional area.
• Ability to travel to development sites as and when required.

In return we can offer you:

• Competitive salary
• Company car / car allowance
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
• Contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance

We reserve the right to close this vacancy if a large volume of applications are received.

Head of Estimating, Salary: Up to £80k, Based; Leeds with some National travel

We require an experienced Head of Estimating to work for a leading construction company who specialise in off-site construction / modular building solutions. Projects typically include the construction of permanent Education, Healthcare, Retail, Commercial and Sporting facilities, with project values of between £2m-£30m.

Applicants will ideally have previous experience as a Head of Estimating / Estimating Manager for a design & build modular provider or a traditional main contractor with project values between £2m and £30m.

The role:

•Working within the Pre-Construction team, The Head of Estimating will lead the team of Estimators to ensure the Net cost of all bids is established prior to Board approval and client submission.
•Ensure all bid submissions are backed up with demonstrable and achievable net cost details.
•Responsible for the preparation and presentation of analytical cost estimates that reflect the program, methodology and risk profile developed by the bid team.
•Work with the wider pre-construction team to develop risk and opportunity strategies for all bidding activity, including building relationships with the supply chain.
•Assist the pre-construction team to manage a growing workload of new enquiries.
•Support the sales team with budget proposals for speculative enquiries.
•At scheme launch, ensure the delivery team are fully briefed on the commercial strategy taken at bid stage.

Head of Estimating Candidate requirements:

•Demonstrable experience in a Head of Estimating / Estimating Manager role, preferably for a design & build modular building specialist or main contractor.
•Experience of projects with a contract value of between £2m and £30m.
•Have a good working knowledge of modular and general construction techniques and processes, with the ability to generate detailed bills for work tasks from groundworks, superstructure, M&E and fit-out packages.
•Have experience with Redsky database estimating software or similar (i.e. Conquest). Training will be given but basic understand is desirable
•Knowledge of the key terms of JCT D&B and NEC3 forms or contract.
•You must be able to think fast on your feet, you will be tenacious, resilient with the ability to communicate at all levels Be adaptable and flex to suit the business needs

If this sounds like the opportunity you have been looking for then please apply by attaching your CV.

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