Description:
As a Graduate Quantity Surveyor at Farrans, you'll collaborate with senior experts to optimise project costs and risks, ensuring top-notch quality and compliance with building regulations. Expect exciting travel opportunities to various construction sites and project locations.
Responsibilities
- Ensure the development and delivery of the project runs in conjunction with business expectations, programme and budget.
- Analyse subcontract quotations.
- Review conditions and/or qualifications assist with drafting and negotiating contract types prior to submission of a tender.
- Ensure the preparation of interim applications, including works executed, materials on site and works by subcontractors is submitted to the Client’s team by agreed deadline.
- Evaluate, measure and recover contract variations.
- Gather records to confirm additional payments where required and defend claims received from subcontractors.
- Review, assess and reduce commercial and contractual risks.
- Assist with the procurement of subcontractors.
- Responsible for effective dispute resolution.
- Generate payments and distribute notices to suppliers and subcontractors, including the measurement of works and differences executed to evaluate final costs and accounts.
- Contribute to the submission of weekly financial forecasting including the assembling of contract costs
- Preparation of estimates and costs of the work and when the project is in progress
- Keeping records of any variations to the contract that may affect costs and create reports to show profitability
Qualifications
- Hold a bachelor’s degree, HNC or HND in an Quantity Surveying discipline.
- Hold a full UK manual driving license.
- Passionate about starting a career in the civils/construction industry.
- High attention to detail coupled with meticulous planning and organisational skills.
- Demonstrate a strong interest in all aspects of engineering and looking for a dynamic workplace that provides an outstanding career opportunity.
- Excellent good communication skills, be able to work flexibly in a team and be a hard worker.