Quantity Surveyor
- Mechanical & Electrical (M&E)
- Senior level
- Barrow-in-Furness (Mixture of home, office and client sites)
- Permanent
- Full time – with flexible working and core hours
Gleeds is a leading global property and construction consultancy. Independent since 1885, we are proud to deliver award-winning projects around the world. We are a Great Place to Work certified employer, with our people at the heart of everything we do.
Climate change and Sustainability is at the top of our agenda, we have been established within the energy sector for the past 40 years and have achieved significant growth in the past years as we contribute to a sector that will have trillions of pounds of investment over the next decade. Our teams are at the forefront of the change, managing life changing projects in Solar, Hydrogen, Nuclear, Renewables and Defence, and we want you to be part of that too.
At Gleeds, our projects take us across the globe, giving you opportunities to travel or to remain at the office base you choose.
We are looking to recruit a highly motivated Quantity Surveyor with a background or interest in mechanical and electrical services to join our team in Barrow-in-Furness on a permanent basis. In this role you will be closely supporting the team leaders in people and client development and management alongside your day to day role.
Your day to day could sometimes involve:
- Contract Administration
- Ensure adherence to processes and procedures for issuing works in line with contracts.
- Optimise value for money by facilitating improved contractor performance management.
- Contract advice, ensuring obligations under contract are met;
- Challenge and manage scope changes, highlighting any commercial impact.
- Monitor and validate supplier performance against contracts via KPI mechanisms
- Oversee application for payment in line with undertaken activities
- Align financial reports to the requirements of the business.
- Validate impact of changes to scope, ensuring compliance to contract.
- Advise client on contractual matters and implications of actions on contract.
- Identifying, analysing and developing responses to commercial risk.
- Oversee validation of estimates.
However no two days are the same, we are a flexible team that support each other’s projects as well as getting in involved with wider business activities and we believe that variety is key to your development.