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Associate Quantity Surveyor - Healthcare

Posted 24 Mar 2024
Work experience
0 to 1 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)

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Overview of Role:

We are currently recruiting a Associate Quantity Surveyor to join a client focused team for the London office. This is an exciting opportunity for a high calibre individual to join and strengthen our Quantity Surveying team.

This role presents an excellent opportunity for a proactive individual to take responsibility for providing Quantity Surveying support for our professional services and project based teams on a number of interesting projects, with a strategic focus on the Health and Life Science sectors.

There will be a focus on professional work on a wide variety of selected projects ranging from £5m to £500m including:

  • Healthcare
  • Education
  • Commercial new build and Fit Outs
  • Residential
  • Mixed use and retail
  • Hotel and Leisure
  • Industrial and Distribution

This role presents an excellent opportunity for a proactive Senior Surveyor who can both take responsibility acting as the sole contact with clients and working as part of the wider RLB team.

Key Responsibilities:

  • The individual will be an integral part of a team that is accountable for the commercial and contractual performance of a project
  • To support business objectives of delivering value for money in all circumstances
  • To carry out assigned duties efficiently and in accordance with processes and procedures
  • Comply with established commercial/procurement/ contractual strategies
  • Take personal responsibility for complying with Environmental, Health, Safety, Security and Quality Standards
  • Individually or as part of a team operate processes for the selection, appointment and management of construction and engineering contractors

Cost Planning including:

  • Preparation of indicative cost budgets and appraisals
  • Preparation of elemental cost plans
  • Provide advice and opinion in respect of our client development plans and expectations
  • Value engineering studies
  • Life cycle cost studies

Procurement including:

  • Providing advice on procurement strategy
  • Assembling and seeking agreement to long and short tender lists
  • Preparing and issuing tender documents
  • Running a competitive tender process including managing queries from tendering contractors
  • Managing and contributing to structured and documented tender evaluations
  • Preparation of Contract Recommendation Reports
  • Preparation of contract documents
  • Compliant tenders

Post Contract Quantity Surveying including:

  • Support formal dispute resolution process and contract close out strategy as required
  • Advising and liaising with internal project and cost control team
  • Developing Commercial Strategies
  • Developing Acquisition Strategies

Person Specification:

The ideal candidate will demonstrate a positive proactive approach to the role, and will be committed to delivering customer service excellence, with good commercial results.

  • Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying or similar technical discipline
  • Strong technical delivery experience
  • Strong track record of delivery on Higher Education projects,
  • MRICS or membership of other relevant professional body
  • Ability to successfully manage complex projects for multi-stakeholder clients in a proactive and diligent manner
  • Strong Feasibility and cost planning experience
  • Experience of providing procurement advice, tender documentation and post contract services
  • Client facing, ensuring a high standard of technical delivery
  • Able to build long-term relationships
  • Previously employed by a consultancy or end user client
  • Stakeholder management with a clear focus on developing client accounts
  • A track record of working with teams and managing projects by prioritising workloads and delivering deadlines
  • A team player, outgoing, flexible, enthusiastic and ambitious
  • Enjoy and be hands on with project delivery, building and maintaining client relationships

Rider Levett Bucknall is a global property and construction practice.

Construction
London
2,000 employees