About the role
Balfour Beatty Homes has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our regional house building business unit in Kettering.
Role Purpose:
- Controlling and reporting on Balfour Beatty Homes expenditure from procurement to final account.
- The commercial department is responsible for monitoring and controlling on all of the divisional developments by controlling the “cost pf sales”, as well as ensuring that all commercial policies and procedures are adhered to.
- You will also be responsible for procurement in line with programme, preparation of budgets, payments, cost value reconciliations and the administration of H & S procedures.
What you'll be doing
You will have the following accountabilities:
- Prepare subcontract Enquiry List for approval by Head of Commercial and Operations
Manager
- Prepare full enquiry packs and collate all tender information
- Analyse tenders upon return
- Prepare tender analysis, comparing individual tenders against each other, previous
developments and budget
- Issue Health and Safety Contractor checklists for new contractors, ensuring they
conform to BBH policies and procedures
- Assemble Health and Safety Policies, Method Statements and Risk Assessments
- Compile subcontract Orders / appointments
- Prepare customer extras schedule for Head of Commercial to agree with Sales
Director
- Price agreed customer extras schedule with final sub-contractors
2. Payments
- Analyse sub-contractor invoices/applications
- Prepare interim payments for approval by Head of Commercial
- Issue contra charges as appropriate
- Keep Payment Record Sheets up-to-date following completion of each payment run
3. Cost / Value Reconciliations
- Agree and input progress
- Prepare subcontract accruals
- Produce Valuation Breakdown Reconciliation
- Assist in carrying out cost and value reconciliation on all items
Other responsibilities, but not limited to
- Issue Variation Orders as appropriate
- Attend site based project meetings and verify contractor claims
- Ensure familiarity with Balfour Beatty Home’s Health, Safety and Environmental
policies and comply with employee responsibilities
- Comply with company policies, procedures and instructions at all times
- Implement new ideas and methods whilst continuing to seek ways of improving both
- Contributing to the organisation’s goals and enhancing the reputation of the company
Who we're looking for
You will have the following qualities and experience:
- Qualified to a minimum level of HNC in Quantity Surveying
- High level of expertise working on residential projects ideally with a contractor or a developer
- Self-motivated and well organised with ability to operate efficiently with minimal supervision
- Strong analytical skills
- Commitment to Balfour Beatty Investment Information Security Policy
- Commitment to Balfour Beatty Values of Integrity, Teamwork, Excellence and Respect.
- Commitment to Balfour Beatty Zero Harm Agenda.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.
lf you are still interested, then come and become colleagues with 26,000 staff and join a business which recorded 8.6bn in revenues last year, achieved industry leading customer satisfaction scores and has unrivalled employee engagement statistics.
An excellent range of benefits awaits the successful candidate: -
- An attractive / negotiated salary
- Company Car or Car Allowance (£5,400 p.a.)
- Balfour Beatty Homes Kettering base location
- 25 days annual holidays
- 37.5 hours per week
- Pension savings schemes
- Bonus scheme of up to 10%
- WFO/WFH flex (upon completion of probationary period)
- A whole host of other BB staff employee bens (discounts, special offers etc)
About us
Balfour Beatty Investments develops, finances, manages and operates public and private infrastructure projects. They are responsible for raising and structuring finance to help customers achieve goals that might otherwise be unattainable. They also invest directly in infrastructure assets, particularly where there are opportunities to manage the project upon completion and enhance operational efficiency.
The Investments SBU also has a successful business in the US which includes Balfour Beatty Communities, a subsidiary dedicated to developing and operating privatised military housing, and multifamily housing, as well as Balfour Beatty Campus Solutions, a leading provider of large capital project financing, development and construction solutions for the higher education market.
At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.
Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
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Job Reference: BBUK02283