Senior Quantity Surveyor

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

We are seeking an Senior Cost Consultant/ Quantity Surveyor to work in a multi-disciplinary team on major commercial, residential (all classes) and mixed-use developments. Our ideal candidate will be responsible managing all pre and post contract commercial aspects of a project, ensuring that budgets are considered and maintained as design and project aspirations are developed. The pre-contract service delivery will include team leadership, producing estimates, cost benchmarking reports and cost plans and undertaking due diligence through to tendering and contract collation and execution. Post contract, you will be required to undertake project contract administration, financial reporting and control and final account agreements.

The role will include working in a specialist property team, and the successful candidate will be fully supported and trained where necessary. This is a great opportunity for an

individual looking to progress their career and work on some of the largest residential-led and commercial projects in London and the Southeast with nationally recognised developers.

Role accountabilities:

Responsibility for full or part delivery of cost consultancy services (prime and affordable residential all classes, hotels, office, commercial, sports and leisure, retrofit, etc.) to budget, quality and time metrics through all RIBA stages including:

– Pre-contract cost and viability advice

– Post contract valuations, change control and cost reporting

– Cost planning, estimating and final account negotiations

– Procurement and contract advice

– Claims analysis

· Undertake timely and accurate data collection, support analysis and preparation of reports;

· Work within established financial systems and project objectives to prepare cost schedules and track budgets, highlighting variances in order to manage and control project delivery targets;

· Management of any project cost risks or issues to ensure the project is not adversely impacted;

· Support analysis and review a range of data to identify key themes and trends and use the outputs to produce recommendations that support project decision-making;

· Interact effectively across the organisation, completing professional level tasks for others to ensure projects/programmes can be delivered to meet client expectations.

Qualifications & Experience:

Relevant experience including cost management of projects or aspects of projects ranging from £40m to £80m+;

· Industry relevant degree or qualification;

· MRICS;

· Knowledge of the JCT suite of contracts;

· Understanding of the NEC suite of contracts preferable;

· Good communication skills, including the ability to liaise with peers and senior colleagues and build and maintain relationships;

· A logical approach to co-ordinate multi-faceted aspects of projects;

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.