Assistant Quantity Surveyor — Sterling Services - for all your construction & maintenance needs

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Assistant Quantity Surveyor

Sterling Services (Northern) Ltd is based in Knowsley, and St Helens and works all over the UK. Founded in 1985, we’ve grown to a multimillion pound construction company supporting clients in sectors including education, local government, housing associations, retail, health care and energy. This is spread across 4 divisions from major projects in the principal contractor role, small works (under £100,000), electrical division and our cleaning division. Sterling is truly a dynamic, exciting and fast growing construction company with a very healthy future ahead.

Our Culture is all about our people. We have a talented team and our future depends on the right people being in our business that has the same core beliefs as we do.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to be part of our successful business and growing commercial team. We are seeking an enthusiastic and ambitious Assistant Quantity Surveyor to continue to facilitate the successful financial delivery of work, including Education, Health Service and Registered Provider refurbishment and construction work across Merseyside and the wider Northwest

Benefits;

Competitive salary (£28,000 - £33,000)
26 Days Hols & Bank holidays
Car Allowance
Continued Professional Development
Two day’s paid volunteering per year
Length of service awards

Summary – Assistant Quantity Surveyor

The role is to support the bidding and winning of identified target tenders and directly negotiated work opportunities and to play your part within the projects delivery team to procure the required subcontractors and suppliers, to ensure that the works are delivered safely and to the quality expected by our clients and end users, whilst ensuring timely applications for payment, the fair valuation of subcontract applications and the management of cash and scheme profitability.

Working on a broad range of works including Education, Health Service and Registered Provider refurbishment and construction work you will be expected to build trusting relationships based on “open partnering principles” to secure long term and repeat business relationships.

The position will be based at our Knowsley head office, although it will be necessary to work from site / visit the sites in and around Merseyside and the Northwest on a regular basis.

Key Responsibilities – Assistant Quantity Surveyor

Typically, the assistant, under the direction of the Commercial Director will be expected to assist with the following:

Assist in the preparation and pricing of estimates, bids and tenders.
Assist in the development of the procurement programme & procurement schedule
Place timely, value for money subcontract agreements and orders.
Prepare and update cashflow forecasts and monitor cash flow.
Prepare and submit monthly applications for payment to the Client/Client’s representative.
Prepare cost value reports for the monthly management meetings.

Value and authorise payments to sub-contractors.
Attend and contribute to value engineering and risk reduction meetings with work colleagues and Clients/Customers, building relationships and demonstrating excellent communication skills.
Assist in the control of individual contract budgets.

Key skills and Qualifications

Quantity Surveying degree qualified with work experience (preferred but not essential.)
Experience of working with the public sector on refurbishment projects (preferred but not essential.)
Confident IT skills, proficient in the use of MS Office.
Must be flexible in hours of work and travel and hold a Full UK Driving Licence

At Sterling Services, we value people, and are committed to building an agile, inclusive and diverse workplace that enables our people to benefit from realising their full potential. We understand for many reasons, that people very rarely meet all the criteria laid out in the job advert, so, we encourage you to apply to the role even if you do not meet all the criteria or hold all the qualifications.

Please note that we do not require recruitment agency support with this role and speculative CVs will be treated as a direct application.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Schedule:

Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

Knowsley

Education:

BSc in Quantity Surveying (preferred)

Experience:

Quantity surveying: +1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

Driving Licence (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Knowsley

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £28,000.00-£33,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Company pension
On-site parking