Senior Quantity Surveyor

Our regional commercial teams are integral to the successful delivery of every Taylor Wimpey site. The function serves as the linchpin between our Technical and Production functions and makes the reality of a Taylor Wimpey development come to life.

The Senior Quantity Surveyor position within the commercial team is a challenging and diverse role. You will have full commercial management of a number of housing projects from conception to completion. Providing information, where necessary, for the land purchase exercise that will enable clear materials and labour costs to be considered at that stage.

You will manage the flow of Health and Safety information from the Commercial Department. Carry out Commercial duties as defined within CDM and monitor and report build costs periodically reporting any savings and excesses.

What you will do:

Full commercial management of housing projects 

• Calculate all the prime costs on developments within the business, reporting any movements in the costs since the preparation of the land purchase exercise. Prime costs to include but not restricted to house pricing, labour costs, site work operations and remediation work. 
• Maintain and fully reconcile whole site infrastructure budgets and reconcile against phased developments. 
• Provide a detailed cost budget and share with Site Manager at the appropriate time. 
• Implement wherever possible value engineering solutions & strategy to optimise profit and efficiency for the business. 
• Maintain schedules of quantities (Bill of Quants site database) and price them individually for prime cost budget. 
• Preparation of Site Budgets for authorisation by the Business Unit Management Team at the appropriate time. 
• Manage the adoption process of public works. 
• Assist in finalising/agreeing Housing Association contracts. 
• Manage Housing Association valuations and attend meetings on site. 
• Manage Closed Contracts provisions and orders. 
• Assist Customer Services in assessing the best commercial outcome for dealing with defects (incl cost recovery within Contract Agreements). 
• Ensure the surveying team are run using consistently processes, documents & procedures 
• Responsible for the pricing and management of subcontractors for the Customer Options system  

Provide information for land purchase exercise 

• Once land opportunities are identified, familiarise the geographical area and consider site issues. 
• Prepare estimates of all prime costs including subcontract and materials. 
• Use COINS systems to present feasibility study of the site incorporating all development costs. 

Monitor and report costs 

• Complete the apportionment of total prime costs to individual plots and produce a profit analysis for the Director. 
• Monitor and explain subcontractor cost movements. 
• Responsible for procurement of subcontractors including payments, variation orders and day works and settlement of final accounts. 
• Undertake valuations of production at budgeted cost on a monthly basis and split the cost of profit completions and potential future profit to estimate a value for work in progress. 
• Report on savings and excesses against budget costs to the Director. 
• Forecast final accounts. 

General 

• Be aware of all codes of practice that impact on estimating e.g. Building Regulations, NHBC requirements, HSE etc. 
• Monitor, reconcile and recharge any costs, which relate to shared cost items with either other businesses within the Group or external Companies. 
• Attend relevant project, concept, pre-tender, pre-start, specification and any other relevant meeting as required 
• Input and maintain any computer based databases or systems. 
• Attend site on a regular basis to complete Commercial functions and support the site teams to running an efficient development 
• Any other duties as required by the Commercial Director. 

What you will have:

• Wide experience in the discipline within the house building industry. 
• Strong knowledge of Building Regulations, NHBC and Health and Safety requirements. 
• Industry related business qualification. 
• Strong managerial and negotiation skills with internal and external clients 
• Working knowledge of contract law. 
• IT literate (Although COINS system preferred). 
• Preferably member of CIOB or RICS 

Individuals seeking employments at Taylor Wimpey should know that we foster a culture of inclusion and value diversity positively which creates a better workplace and delivers stronger outcomes. We commit to treating all our job applicants and employees fairly and with respect, irrespective of background, disability or any other protected characteristic. If you require any assistance with regards to reasonable adjustments during the application process, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Checks and eligibility to work: 

To be successful in this role you must be able to prove eligibility to work in the UK and hold a full UK drivers licence.   
 
If you are successful at interview and the Company considers making an offer of employment, you may be asked to give your consent to the following pre-employment check[s] being undertaken by our third-party provider, Experian (or any other appropriate third-party provider that the Company chooses to engage).   
 
The type of checks made will depend on the role in question but may include any or all the following:

• Criminal records (DBS);
• Credit reference
• DVLA 

The purpose of such checks will be to assess your suitability for the role.  If it subsequently transpires that you have given incorrect, false or misleading information, your application will not be taken further.

What we will offer you: 

Taylor Wimpey is a FTSE 100 business and one of the largest residential developers in the UK, building new homes and communities across England, Scotland and Wales. We are passionate about building new homes and communities with a focus on sustainability. 
 
Our people are important to us and we want to make sure that we reward and recognise all the great work that they do. Our employees enjoy many standard benefits including access to the Taylor Wimpey House purchase discount scheme, pension (including company contributions), quality health cover, share save schemes as well as many flexible benefits such as buying additional holiday days, retails discounts, free Bupa health assessments and so much more.  Our benefits work perfectly with our culture where you feel valued as a member of a successful team.   
 
We offer industry leading subsidised professional training and development, which support our employees to excel and fulfil their career and personal goals in a variety of opportunities and environments. This in turn drives a strong succession of high performing customer centric leaders, really putting customers at the heart of everything we do. We embrace diversity and look to develop our people in the skills and areas they are most interested in, leveraging the qualities and appreciate the unique competencies, skills and experiences that each person brings to the company.