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As our Senior Quantity Surveyor, you will will work within our wider Commercial, Estimating and Buying team, you will be responsible for supervising, managing and advising on the financial and contractual aspects of multiple construction projects. You will take responsibility for the execution of the Quantity Surveying function on allocated contract/s, in order to fulfil the requirements of the Company in maximising quality of service and profitability. You will provide a range of cost control and financial reporting duties across all aspects of construction work undertaken by the company.\nWe value in-person collaboration and team culture, but we’re also committed to supporting flexible working where possible. We encourage you to raise any specific requirements during the interview process so we can explore how this could be accommodated.\nLet’s cut to the chase, what’s in it for you…\nCompetitive basic salary and annual bonus\nCompany car, car allowance or travel allowance\nUp to 39 days annual leave plus bank holidays\n2 Volunteering days per annum\nPrivate medical insurance, with employee paid cover\nEnhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave (\nCompetitive pension scheme through salary sacrifice\nLife assurance at 4 x your annual salary\nShare save and share incentive schemes\nChristmas company shutdown\nEmployee rewards portal with many more benefits…\nIn return, what we would like from you…\nBehave in line with our company values - Integrity, Caring and Quality\nHNC / HND in Surveying or equivalent\nProven experience as a PQS / SQS / Commercial lead working within a residential house builder (dependent on position level)\nExperience maybe gained from a similar position or promotion\nA good understanding or building regulations and legal obligations\nA good knowledge or construction methods and materials\nStrong mathematical and IT ability\nAbility to assess and analyse information\nGood business sense\nGood understanding of budget management\nNegotiating and networking skills\nExcellent communications skills\nAble to work under pressure, and accept criticism of work\nGood team working skills\nAccurate with an eye for detail\nA methodical approach\nDesirable…\nDegree in Surveying or similar\nWorking towards being a Member of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), or Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)\nMore about the Senior Quantity Surveyor role…\nWorking closely with other departments, including Land, Development and Construction, you will attend design meetings to advise on all areas that may have a cost implication\nRecognise and advise Site Managers on delays, extensions of time and loss and/or expense and ensuring relevant notices are issued.\nAttend development meetings when appropriate, contract pre-start and subcontract package review meetings\nUpon receipt of Contract Documentation, you will be responsible for checking all contract drawings to identify errors, omissions, anomalies and areas where unnecessary cost may arise\nReceive initial tender information and assist in the preparation of the proposed tender lists and updating of subsequent procurement programmes\nDistribute design information packages and tender drawings, whilst preparing all tender documentation and letters including carrying out preliminary checks on subcontractors\nPreparing construction cost analysis, which includes analysis of quotations resulting from the tender enquiry, requesting additional and outstanding information as required\nAssess site staffing levels and build programmes with the Construction Director to ascertain preliminary costs, including collating all cost information and preparing the start on site budget\nArrange and adjudicate budget settlement meetings, with the support of the wider Commercial team\nPrepare stage payment schedules to assist in the financing of the works\n Carry out pre-order meetings including all necessary Health & Safety requirements, finalising a tender sum and agreeing a stage payment schedule for payment purposes before preparing all contract documentation and placing the order\nPlace subcontractor orders, including interviews and checking references on selected subcontractors. You will then negotiate the contract sum within the budget, including finalising costs to cover all late variations\nIssue variation orders and development changes alongside providing cost advice on major variations prior to issue. You will issue revised contract drawings to subcontractors; negotiating the cost of variations including liaising between Buyers and Build Managers. You will provide a full range of pricing information for purchaser’s extras\nCheck all costs posted to each contract, collate and reconcile all costs resulting from subcontract works, variation orders, site instructions, material order and preliminary / running costs. This will include providing monthly analysis of costs and identify possible areas of over expenditure at future dates\nCheck and arrange subcontractor payments, obtaining necessary authorisation for passing payments for all elements of subcontractor works. You will agree final accounts with subcontractors, ensuring all works have been carried out within budget and analysing costs to assist on future estimates\nTake responsibility for the preparation of documents for the basis of external valuation with the client’s agent (CSA, Stage payment schedule, Tick offs)\nKeep the RAMS schedule updated and issued to all relevant parties\nPreparation of financial reports including:Internal Valuations/CVRs and subcontract liability reports in accordance with schedule of accounting period end dates and deadlines\nMargin Analysis reports.\nCommercial Analysis (final margin) forecasts and Cost to Complete forecasts\nCash Flow forecasts\nTurnover forecasts\nDe-brief reports\n\nPlace and issue sub-contract orders in accordance with Group Policy and Commercial Best Practice to budget and within programme requirements. \nAttend and minute all sub-contract order adjudication meetings.\nCompile reports on contract letting vs. estimate for each site periodically, as required.\nLiaise with build department on sub-contractors’ performance and compliance with order conditions.\nAbility to deal with complex consortium sites and attend relevant meetings.\nAttend and project team meetings as required.\nComplete sub-contract orders to accord with site programmed build requirements in accordance with Group Policy and Group Rebate schemes and fully adjudicate prior to issue of documentation.\nSet up and regularly review with the site management team the PPQA tick sheet to facilitate sub-contract contract work payment.\nTo liaise with company management and provide all necessary forecast and site budget information to meet the business’s reporting requirements.\nControl and report post contract cost movements per development every month. Update CV1 and CV2 site specific reports and provide details of all “unscheduled” and “scheduled” order revisions i.e. Site Instructions and site purchase orders. To provide such monthly reporting as required by the Commercial Manager.\nReview professional fee provisions and statutory service cost, and credits, with the technical department.\nEnsure invoices/applications for payments are processed in accordance with Vistry Group Standard Terms and Conditions of Contract.\nIssue Payment Withhold Notices, where a contractor application, or part thereof, is in dispute in accordance with Construction Act.\nImmediately advise management of notification of impending claim or legal action arising from a disputed claim or payment from a Sub-Contractor/service provider.\nWhere necessary, determine a sub-contract order in accordance with Standard Terms and Conditions of Employment and liaise with Build Department in this respect.\nDiligently use the Vistry Group construction system to manage site project administration, including orders, variations, valuations, etc.\nAssist in the regular review of materials on-site and material valuations.\nAgree and process all sales variation requests, including works to show homes, stock plots and sales incentive works in accordance with group procedures.\nProperly categorise on the construction system “unscheduled” and “scheduled” order amendments.\nSettle all variation invoices/applications for payment in accordance with Vistry Group Standard Terms and Conditions of Contract.\nEnsure the collection of retention against all sub-contract orders in accordance with Group Policy. Manage and certify retention releases on completion of the development.\nComplete and agree sub-contract final accounts within 6 months of the last legal completion on-site and prior to the first release of retention to the individual sub-contractors.\nComplete formal site closedown procedure in accordance with Group Policy.\nInform the management team of any abnormal cost or circumstances which will have a significant effect on cost or have long term cost implications.\nEnsure Quantity Surveyors are pro-active on sites within their daily control, advice and discuss any operation or method where cost savings could be achieved.\nFinally, let’s tell you a bit more about us…\nWe build more than homes, we’re making Vistry. Being a responsible developer and award-winning employer means we live each day through our ethos - doing the right thing. Our behaviours reflect this, as well as our values of integrity, caring and quality. Shaping all we do; they empower us to develop sustainable communities across affordable and private housing. We work in a partnership-led way, and you’ll recognise our renowned brands Bovis Homes, Linden Homes and Countryside Homes. Together with Vistry Works, our manufacturing operation, and the functional support of Vistry Services, we’re a proud UK Green Building Council member, UK top five housebuilder with a five-star House Builders Federation (HBF) customer satisfaction rating, and winner of many awards including Top Employer, Global Top Inspiring Workplaces, and Best for Talent Attraction and Outreach.\nJoin us in making Vistry.","description_format":"text","description_chars":10183,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"phd","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Annual leave","Flexible schedule","Health insurance"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-15T01:33:40Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":95,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.946,"p_room":1,"age_days":5,"expected_fill_days":38,"reasons":["conf:2","wave","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-20T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/vistrycareers-senior-quantity-surveyor","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/vistrycareers-senior-quantity-surveyor.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-20T21:37:02Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":25167,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4423459},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4423459"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fvistrycareers-senior-quantity-surveyor"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fvistrycareers-senior-quantity-surveyor"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fvistrycareers-senior-quantity-surveyor"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/vistrycareers-senior-quantity-surveyor\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fvistrycareers-senior-quantity-surveyor"}]}