Senior Quantity Surveyor

We offer a wide range of employee benefits including:

• Salary Banding: £85,000 - £92,000 per annum. 
• Car Allowance (for eligible roles)
• Competitive pension scheme
• Electric vehicle scheme
• BUPA Healthcare and Cash Plan
• Eyecare vouchers
• Cycle to work scheme
• 25 days Holiday plus Bank Holidays plus Birthday Day off

At Sweet Project Construction Limited, (SPCL), we work with the data, defence, and energy sectors. We are a comprehensive design, construction and engineering provider, offering services spanning site acquisition, architecture, and refurbishment to client occupancy. In our world, there are no simple projects, only specialist needs and clever solutions.

We are a general contracting business, drawing on over forty years of specialised industry experience to provide excellent service, sustain long-term partnerships and achieve the highest quality outcome for key clients, whilst maintaining financial commitments.

This role is to be initially based on our Union Park project in Hayes.  As principal contractor we are constructing 18 Data Halls of approximately 1250m2 each, to be deployed at approximately 24MW of total useable IT power. Part of the development included the construction of an adjacent High Voltage Electrical Compound. This was linked to a Medium Voltage Energy Centre with dual backup power generation. The building mass consists of a series of staggered blocks, surrounded by an internal one-way circulation system with both soft and hard landscaping. 

The MV Energy Centres are located either side of North Hyde Gardens are smaller in scale providing a stepping down appearance towards the Grand Union Canal. The HV Energy Centre is located to the east of the MV Energy Centre to the side of North Hyde Gardens. A single storey Visitor Reception Centre enabling security protocols for visitors and employees is located near North Hyde Gardens.

The Senior Quantity Surveyor leads the commercial management of projects or major work packages, ensuring delivery of agreed margin, cash, cost and contractual outcomes. The role manages complex commercial matters, provides leadership and commercial challenge to project teams and develops the capability of Quantity Surveyors, Assistant Quantity Surveyors and Trainees.

•  Lead commercial management of assigned projects or major work packages from mobilisation through to final account

•  Define and implement commercial strategies to achieve agreed margin, cash flow and cost targets

•  Own and oversee cost value reconciliation, forecasting and commercial reporting

•  Ensure commercial performance is accurately reported and appropriately challenged

•  Identify and implement actions to protect and improve project profitability

•  Lead project commercial reviews, ensuring risks, opportunities and corrective actions are clearly understood and owned

•  Lead subcontractor procurement and negotiation

•  Ensure appropriate value, scope clarity and commercial risk transfer

•  Manage and resolve complex subcontractor accounts

•  Lead negotiation and settlement of final accounts

•  Provide commercial oversight of subcontractor performance and administration

•  Ensure identification, substantiation and recovery of contractual entitlement

•  Lead management of complex variations, claims and contractual issues

•  Identify, assess and manage commercial risks and opportunities

•  Ensure compliance with contractual obligations, notices and governance requirements

•  Support dispute management and resolution where required

•  Ensure all significant notices, records and substantiation are completed within contractual timescales

•  Lead value engineering and cost-optimisation activities

•  Challenge project costs and identify opportunities to improve value

•  Influence Operational and Technical decisions to improve commercial outcomes

•  Support effective management of cost, programme and contractual interfaces

•  Lead, mentor and develop Quantity Surveyors, Assistant Quantity Surveyors and Trainees

•  Support commercial resource planning across assigned projects

•  Provide technical and commercial guidance to junior team members

•  Promote consistent commercial standards and good practice

•  Support succession and capability development

•  Allocate and review commercial activities across junior team members, ensuring appropriate supervision and quality control

•  Provide commercial leadership and challenge to project delivery teams

•  Build effective relationships with clients, consultants and subcontractors

•  Lead commercial negotiations within delegated authority

•  Support the Commercial Manager with reporting and escalation of material commercial risks

•  Leads commercial decision-making for assigned projects or major work packages

•  Recommends subcontractor appointments and approves commercial positions within delegated authority

•  Owns project positions on valuations, variations, claims and final accounts

•  Determines negotiation strategy within agreed commercial parameters

•  Escalates material or strategically significant commercial matters

•  Determines when commercial matters require legal, contractual or 

•  Director-level support

• CSCS card
• CDM awareness
• Company mandatory compliance training
• Internal commercial systems and process training
• Sustainability Essentials training
• Sustainability Supply Chain Essentials training
• Relevant commercial, contractual and leadership CPD

• Strategic commercial thinking
• Commercial judgement and decision-making
• Financial and analytical capability
• Contractual and legal awareness
• Negotiation and influencing
• Risk and opportunity management
• Leadership and people development
• Stakeholder management
• Planning and prioritisation
• Clear and effective communication
• Commercial assurance and review
• Coaching and performance management
• Cash and working-capital management

•  Achievement of project margin, cash flow and cost targets

•  Accuracy and reliability of forecasting and commercial reporting

•  Recovery of contractual entitlement

•  Effective management and resolution of complex commercial matters

•  Capability and development of junior Commercial team members

•  Timely agreement of variations, claims and final accounts

•  Quality and effectiveness of project commercial reviews

•  Cash collection and working-capital performance

The duties listed are not exhaustive and may be varied from time to time as dictated by the changing needs of the Company. The post holder will be expected to undertake other duties as appropriate and as requested by their manager.

The post holder may be required to work at any of the locations at which the business of Sweet Projects is conducted.