Trainee/Assistant Quantity Surveyor

City, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Solutions Recruitment

Solutions Recruitment currently looking to speak to a Trainee/Assistant Quantity Surveyor for a client in Newcastle Upon Tyne region.

Following several successful project awards, our client are looking to recruit an enthusiastic Trainee / Assistant Quantity Surveyor. You will be based from our Head office in North Tyneside and will assist on number of projects, from a variety of sectors inclusive of: High end residential developments, Student accommodation, Commercial, Industrial, Hotels & Leisure, Education and Historic / Listed Building Works. Our client will undertake a variety of New Build and Refurbishment Works ranging in value from £50,000.00 to £15.0 million.

You will ideally currently either have recently completed or be working towards a higher education qualification and have some industry experience.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Procurement
• Review tender and construction drawings
• Produce enquiries for subcontract and supplier packages
• Review quotations and tender returns with the project manager and Senior Quantity Surveyor
• Produce comparisons following receipt of subcontractor quotations for review with the Senior Quantity Surveyor
• Formulate subcontract orders for review with the Senior Quantity Surveyor
• Ensure that subcontractor orders and warranty documents are signed and returned in a timely manner.

Valuations / Applications for Payment and Variations

• Attend site on a regular basis, participate in design team meetings.
• Produce monthly project valuations / applications for payment
• Record, monitor and value change both regards to time and cost. Submit to the Commercial Manager for Review.
• Accurately keep up to date project risk registers, risk and opportunity schedules and the like

Reporting, Monitoring, Evaluating

• Assisting the Senior Quantity Surveyor with the production and updating of cash flow forecasts.
• Assist the Senior Quantity Surveyor with the production of monthly CVR’s (cost, value, reconciliation reports)
• Monitor progress on site, update internal progress trackers

Key and relevant skills

• A level of contract awareness JCT, NEC, Etc
• Experience of working in a construction environment
• Full UK Driving license
• Excellent organisation, planning and communication skills
• Excellent MS-Office skills
• knowledge of Electronic Document Management Systems (e.g. viewpoint, Microsoft Dynamix)

Salary: Flexible Dependant on level of applicant + package