Senior Quantity Surveyor - Interior Fit-out

Job Title: Senior Quantity Surveyor - Interior Fit-Out - London

DIVISION:Interior Fit Out
LOCATION:London
CONTRACT TYPE:Permanent
BENEFITS:Car allowance, Pension, Private Medical Cover, Life Assurance Scheme

Job Summary
We are looking for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our Interior Fit-Out Division, where you will play a pivotal role in delivering high-end projects to the highest standard. You'll be instrumental in managing costs, procurement, and contracts, ensuring every project is completed on time, within budget, and to exceptional quality.

In this role, you will take ownership of project financials, work closely with subcontractors, and maintain strong client relationships, all within a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
A solid understanding of JCT/NEC contracts is essential, while experience in preparing delay analyses and managing loss and expense claims will be highly advantageous.

Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
•Project Budgeting: Establish and manage project budgets, allocate cost codes, and ensure detailed and accurate cost reporting.
•Contract Review & Procurement: Review main contract and subcontract terms, step down conditions, and procure subcontract packages through detailed tender documentation.
•Cost Forecasting: Track and forecast project costs and cash flow, ensuring comprehensive and transparent financial reporting.
•Contract Administration: Administer contracts, including managing delays, loss and expense claims, and compiling contractual correspondence.
•Client and Team Liaison: Regularly interface with clients and internal teams to progress the commercial aspects of projects, ensuring strong communication.
•Subcontractor Management: Oversee subcontractor performance, address issues promptly, and ensure alignment with the project's commercial objectives.
•Delay & Variation Management: Carry out delay analysis, prepare extensions of time, and ensure variation and compensation mechanisms are adhered to.
•Meetings & Reporting: Attend progress and commercial meetings, representing GRAHAM in a commercial capacity and maintaining accurate site documentation.

This job description is intended to give the post holder an appreciation of the role envisaged for the ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬Senior Quantity Surveyor and the range of duties to be undertaken.

It does not attempt to detail every activity. Specific tasks and objectives will be agreed with the post holder at regular intervals
Personal Specification
Technical Competencies
Essential:
•Degree or equivalent in Quantity Surveying or related field.
•Proven experience in a Senior QS role within fit-out or construction projects.
•Proficiency with JCT contracts and strong commercial acumen.
•Strong leadership and negotiation skills, with a track record of effective subcontractor management.
•Understanding of construction methodologies and health and safety regulations.
•Competence in project management software (e.g., MS Project, Excel).
Desirable:
•Professional qualification (e.g., MRICS/MCIOB).
•Experience in high-end, bespoke interior fit-out projects.
•Familiarity with both NEC and JCT contracts.
Behavioural Competencies
Essential
•People Management and Team Leadership: Actively searching for opportunities and ways to grow both self and others professionally. Improving performance while sharing knowledge and seeking feedback.
•Communication Skills: Expressing and presenting thoughts and complex ideas clearly and succinctly. Adapting language or terminology to the characteristics and needs of the audience.
•Client Focus: Establishing a positive relationship with clients/ customers, anticipating their needs and responding quickly to requests to develop better ways to deliver value to them.
•Planning and Organising: Using his or her time effectively and efficiently. Concentrating his or her efforts on the most important priorities. Continuously seeking new ways to plan and organise activities effectively.
•Teamwork: Developing cooperation and collaborative work efforts to achieve common goals, obtaining the input of others' and displaying willingness to learn from others.
•Organisational Understanding: Working cooperatively with other departments/ sections to achieve goals.
•Safety Awareness: Possessing general knowledge of safety procedures and abiding by the basic personal safety rules.
•Achieving Goals: Demonstrating energy and enthusiasm in their work, acting with decisiveness and determination to complete tasks. Showing confidence and a positive attitude toward difficulties.
•Flexibility and Reliability: Working effectively with different people and/or teams in a variety of situations. Actively seeking out and carefully considering the merits of new approaches. Delivering complex and articulated outputs within prescribed time, cost and quality standards, taking personal responsibility of all activities.
•IT Skills: Ability to use software but does not maximise use.
•Managing Change and Innovation: Welcoming new ideas and change to improve performance.
•Diversity: Working well with individuals from different backgrounds and understanding the value of diversity in the workplace.

Our Commitment:
At GRAHAM, we are proud to say that we are a committed Equal Opportunities Employer and we aim to be the first choice for people from all backgrounds. We seek to promote respect for the individual and equality of opportunities. We believe that everyone should be treated solely on the basis of personal merit and contribution throughout their GRAHAM career journey and not on the value of artificial barriers, prejudices, or preferences.

If you require any adjustments or accommodations during the application or interview process, please let us know. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

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As a Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role. If you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme, please contact Louise Hunter, Resourcing Manager, at

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• Phone: 07384 916355

We are only able to consider applications from individuals who are eligible to live and work in the UK, as per Home Office regulations. Please check your eligibility with the regulations before applying. Individuals with a current time restricted right to work in the UK, should contact the Human Resources team in the first instance. A basic disclosure may be requested if security clearance is required by 3rd party clients and a criminal record will not necessarily be a bar to obtaining a position. Our Access NI/Vetting and Barring Scheme Policy and Policy on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders is available upon request. GRAHAM reserves the right to carry out checks to ensure the validity of an applicant's experience and/or qualifications and we expect all applicants to comply with any such requests for information. Failure to do so or evidence of any falsification of information will lead to either removal from the recruitment process or if already in employment potential termination of contract through the company disciplinary procedure.