Senior Quantity Surveyor - Fixed term up to 12 months

Are you an experienced Quantity Surveyor, who is agile, accurate, organised, takes pride in their work, delivers high standards, and wants to use their skills to benefit Vico Homes communities and the local area? If so, this role could be for you!

The Capital Works team are looking for someone to manage a team of Quantity Surveyors to ensure the delivery of Vico Home’s capital reinvestment programme by arranging the procurement and contract management activities for each construction project.

What you’ll do

In this role you will ensure team members collate financial and operational performance monitoring information relating to the delivery of the capital reinvestment programme, and associated planned property maintenance projects, for reporting and governance purposes in accordance with set budgets and key performance indicators (KPIs).

You will be expected to work across various work environments, including home, office, and construction sites to help and support the teams across the department and ensure services deliver value for money.

What we’re looking for

• A qualification at Level 5 of the Framework for Higher Education Qualification, such as a First Degree, Award, Certificate or Diploma at level 5 or equivalent
• Experience in the management and monitoring of financial information associated to the delivery of planned property maintenance and/or capital reinvestment programmes
• Experience in the management of procurement activities, with good communication and negotiation skills
• Experience of working with construction related contracts such as JCT 2011, JCT 2016, etc
• Proven track record in a similar position in the construction sector, or Property Services department of a large Registered Provider(RP) or local authority
  
  

For more details on what we’re looking for in this role, please see the Job Description below.

For more information or an informal chat about the role or working for Vico Homes, please contact Rebecca Wardlaw Pearson, Commercial Manager – Capital Works on 07825 112066.

Working for Vico Homes

Want to work in a place that values you? Where you’re offered a competitive salary and a great pension? And where you can make a real difference? You’re in the right place!

We have a strong and inclusive culture and we’re always on the lookout for talented and dedicated people to be part of our teams. You spend a lot of your waking hours at work, so we offer a workplace where you can really be yourself, feel valued and access opportunities to progress and develop. We are recognised as a disability confident employer and have the Investors in People accreditation.

Working at Vico Homes brings lots of great benefits, including:

• Holidays - 26 days holiday (rising to 31 after five years' service) and an extra day off on your birthday, plus bank holidays and an Annual Leave Purchase Scheme
• Pension - generous employer pension contribution
• Flexible working - we’re happy to talk flexible working, including our WorkSmart approach to hybrid working, reduced hours, compressed hours or other flexible working patterns
• Vico Homes Rewards - a fantastic range of lifestyle savings and salary sacrifice schemes including cycle to work, home electronics and our car benefit scheme
• Colleague wellbeing - a range of initiatives to support our people including an Employee Assistance Programme, Volunteering Scheme and dedicated Wellbeing Champions
• Colleague development – a range of initiatives to support personal development including training, support with professional membership fees, internal and external qualifications, mentoring and personal coaching

How to apply and what happens next

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all.

• Read the job description, person specification and guidance notes below
• Complete the supporting information form below with details of how you meet the person specification
• We also encourage you to provide your CV if you have one but please remove any information that identifies you (e.g. your name and address)
• Email your supporting information form, and CV if you have one, to [email protected] before the closing date. Applications close at midnight on the closing date specified
• You'll receive an automatic reply to let you know we've received your application
• We'll then score all the applications against the person specification and contact you to let you know if we're inviting you to interview

If you have any questions about a career at Vico Homes, you can contact us by email on [email protected].