Quantity Surveyor (Social Housing) - #1717393

Permanent, Fixed Term Contract

Here at Stonewater, we are seeking a Quantity Surveyor (known internally as Cost Manager) to lead on commercial negotiations of all new and existing Homes contracts, in collaboration with Operational and Procurement Teams, ensuring effective and commercial cost control. You willidentifyimproved, innovative, and more economical ways of delivering services whilst preventing waste and manage and foster long term strategic partnerships with the supply chain with key partners and suppliers.

You will lead on the management of cost control, reviewing multiple national contracts and projects (circa £30m p/a)in order toinfluence and drive commercial change in efficient delivery. You willmonitorcontract / project costs, making recommendations on removing / preventing waste and better, more economical ways of delivering contract services, and lead on cost benchmarking / development, proactively challenging through value engineering and effective project reviews. The Cost Manager will also act as Homes Lead on new contract negotiations with Procurement, to add value and drive efficiencies, and support Operations colleagues with the valuation of contract variations and claims.

So, if you are interested in contributing to the delivery of our corporate and assets strategy, we would be delighted to hear from you!

The Ideal Candidate Will

• Be educated to HND level (or equivalent) or have a professional qualification in construction, housing, management, or property.
• Have several years experience working as a QS or Cost Manager, either client or contractor side for a large organisation.
• Have a good working knowledge of NHF rates
• Have a good working knowledge of PAS2035, Retrofit & Best Practice
• Experience of delivering grant funded programmes of work, including monitoring and reporting to funding partners.?
• Have knowledge of repairs price per property and/or price per void type contracts and planned works.
• Have proven experience of driving costs down whilst improving economic and social value.
• Havea track recordof achieving measurable and significant savings and performance improvements.
• Have proven experience of developing long term strategic partnerships and embedding key values with stakeholders.
• Have proven experience of working with national multi-disciplined teams and supply chain across a wide geographical area.
• Have highly developed communication skills, able to speak articulately and confidently.
• Be able to employ software to analyse information and use data effectively to inform decision making, specifically using Microsoft Excel formulas and tools.
• Be able to resolve conflict successfully.
• Havea high levelof influencing and negotiating skills.
• Be skilled infinancial managementinvolving budgeting and costings.
• Have excellent planning and organisational abilities.
• Have excellent networking and collaboration skills.
• Have knowledge of building law, regulation, building contracts, contract law and health & safety legislation and best practice.
  
  

Due to the nature of the role, we also ask that you are flexible and able to travel as and when required by the business.

Appointment to this role will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check, satisfactoryreferencesand possession of a valid Right to Work document.

Discover Stonewater

Stonewater is a leading housing provider. We manage around 40,000 homes, serving 93,000 customers across our portfolio of affordable properties for general rent, sharedownershipand sale, alongside specialist accommodation, with an ambitious house-building programme.

Our mission is to provide quality homes and services for people whose needs are not met by the open market.

Werelooking for like-minded people to join our team of over 900 talented colleagues who embody our values of being ethical, ambitious, passionate,agileand commercial, as well as people who want to make a difference and transform peoples lives.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and working towards accreditation for becoming a Disability Confident Leader, which allows us to record and report on disability, mentalhealthand wellbeing in the workplace to better support our colleagues. We have also achieved accreditation for being an Advanced Employer for Investing in Ethnicity Maturity Matrix. We are committed to being a Menopause Friendly employer and working towards accreditation our Menopause Friendly accreditation.

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Stonewater reserve the right to bring the closing date forward should enough quality applications be received prior to the current closing date.