Quantity Surveyor

Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity? Join Persimmon Homes as a Quantity Surveyor and step into a role where your success is celebrated, your growth supported, and your work truly matters.

Persimmon Homes is one of the UK's largest and most established housebuilders, listed on the FTSE 100, with 29 regional offices and thousands of quality homes built every year.

At Persimmon, we don't just build homes - we build careers. When you Persimmon, you'll benefit from:

Benefits:

• Competitive Salary: Circa £50,000 to £70,000, depending on experience.
• Company Car or Car Allowance: A company car or car allowance.
• Healthcare: Access to healthcare benefits.
• Life Cover and Contributory Pension: Benefits including life cover and a contributory pension.
• Bonus: Access to a bonus.
• Employee Benefits Platform: Access to high-street discounts, wellbeing support and more.
• 5 Housebuilder: Be part of a company that consistently delivers quality homes and outstanding customer satisfaction.
• Diversity and Inclusion: Join an organisation committed to diversity, inclusion and empowering your development.

The Role

This is an opportunity to join Persimmon Homes as a Quantity Surveyor, responsible for the financial management of sites across the South East region, based at our Maidstone office. Through effective and efficient financial controls, you will produce reports that enable senior management to establish the financial status of each site.

Responsibilities as a Quantity Surveyor:

• Site and Budget Management: Take responsibility for up to three or four sites of varying complexity, setting up budgets, producing bi-monthly valuations (CVRs), appointing subcontractors and processing subcontractor payments to maintain close cost control and support management decisions.
• Payments and Cost Control: Ensure weekly and monthly payments are processed efficiently and disputed items are resolved, allowing site works to proceed unhindered and providing an accurate picture of each site's financial status.
• Financial Reporting and Valuations: Produce site valuations on a bi-monthly basis and present them to the Board of Directors, highlighting any variations from budgeted figures.
• Subcontractor Negotiations: Negotiate to obtain optimum rates for subcontract appointments and maximise margins.
• Budgeting and Forecasting: Use the Persimmon Group COINS system to set up new sites, establish budgets and predict site profitability for financial planning verification.
• Departmental Liaison: Work with Construction, Sales, Customer Care and Accounts to ensure sites run efficiently.
• Health, Safety and Environment: Comply with the responsibilities set out in the Group's Health, Safety & Environment Policy and ensure the team complies with the same requirements, promoting safety in the way projects are built.
• Team Support and Quality Control: When deputising for the Manager, allocate tasks to the team and verify the quality of work to ensure it meets company guidelines and required standards.
• Mentoring and Training: Where experience permits, mentor and train junior team members, developing their skills so they can take on more responsibility, add value to the team and improve regional productivity.
• Commercial Support: Assist the Commercial Manager with key business decisions when required and attend regular regional meetings as the relevant subject expert.

Required Skills and Qualifications

To succeed as a Quantity Surveyor, you will need relevant construction-related qualifications, experience in the UK residential housebuilding sector and the ability to manage multiple projects effectively.

• Qualifications: Minimum of HND/HNC in building-related studies.
• Industry Experience: Previous experience in the UK residential housebuilding sector.
• Microsoft Office Skills: Fully conversant with Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Driving Licence: Full UK driving licence.
• Project Management: Ability to oversee several projects at different stages of development.
• Organisation and Time Management: Exceptional project management and time management skills.

Apply today to join Persimmon Homes as a Quantity Surveyor in Maidstone. If you have experience in residential housebuilding, strong commercial skills and the ability to manage site finances effectively, this is an opportunity to take on responsibility across multiple developments in the South East while benefiting from a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.