Job Description
Assistant Quantity Surveyor
Location: Farringdon, London
Salary: Up to £50,000 depending on experience, plus excellent performance-related bonus
An Assistant Quantity Surveyor role for someone who has done enough shadowing and wants to run their own jobs. You’ll lead projects under £1m with a Commercial Manager behind you, at a profitable, growing contractor where good work gets noticed, bonuses are earned and people get moved up quickly.
About the company
A London fit-out and construction contractor with about 25 staff, turnover over £20m and growing. They want steady growth done properly, not growth for the sake of it. The business has always been profitable, carries no debt and hasn’t had a loss-making job this year.
Most of their work is repeat business from long-standing clients, with around six projects live at any one time across fit-out, refurbishment and building works. They’ve just moved into a new office in Farringdon.
It’s a busy, fast-paced place. They’re big enough to have a steady pipeline and proper commercial support, and small enough that the people making the decisions are the people you work with every day.
The role
You’ll join a commercial team of three QSs, led by the Commercial Director, and look after the commercial side of your own projects, typically up to £1m, from start to final account. Smaller jobs are priced and delivered in-house, and bigger schemes come through the estimating and pre-construction team.
Your Commercial Manager will support you, check your work and help you develop, but they want someone who can handle around 80% of it on their own. It suits an Assistant Quantity Surveyor who wants real ownership now and a fast-track route to Quantity Surveyor.
Key responsibilities:
To apply or find out more, send your CV or get in touch for a confidential conversation.
Location: Farringdon, London
Salary: Up to £50,000 depending on experience, plus excellent performance-related bonus
An Assistant Quantity Surveyor role for someone who has done enough shadowing and wants to run their own jobs. You’ll lead projects under £1m with a Commercial Manager behind you, at a profitable, growing contractor where good work gets noticed, bonuses are earned and people get moved up quickly.
About the company
A London fit-out and construction contractor with about 25 staff, turnover over £20m and growing. They want steady growth done properly, not growth for the sake of it. The business has always been profitable, carries no debt and hasn’t had a loss-making job this year.
Most of their work is repeat business from long-standing clients, with around six projects live at any one time across fit-out, refurbishment and building works. They’ve just moved into a new office in Farringdon.
It’s a busy, fast-paced place. They’re big enough to have a steady pipeline and proper commercial support, and small enough that the people making the decisions are the people you work with every day.
The role
You’ll join a commercial team of three QSs, led by the Commercial Director, and look after the commercial side of your own projects, typically up to £1m, from start to final account. Smaller jobs are priced and delivered in-house, and bigger schemes come through the estimating and pre-construction team.
Your Commercial Manager will support you, check your work and help you develop, but they want someone who can handle around 80% of it on their own. It suits an Assistant Quantity Surveyor who wants real ownership now and a fast-track route to Quantity Surveyor.
Key responsibilities:
- Running the commercial side of fit-out and refurbishment projects up to £1m, from pre-start to final account
- Procuring subcontract packages and preparing subcontract orders
- Valuing subcontractor applications and issuing payment notices
- Preparing monthly valuations and applications to the client
- Producing monthly cost reports and CVRs, and keeping a close eye on margin
- Managing variations and change control, and keeping the paperwork tight
- Agreeing final accounts with subcontractors and the client
- Building good relationships with clients, who keep coming back
- Working closely with the site team so you know what’s actually happening on the job
- An Assistant Quantity Surveyor with solid UK construction experience who is ready to step up
- Confident working on your own on smaller projects, and sensible enough to know when to ask
- Main contractor or subcontractor background, both welcome. Subbie QSs who know packages inside out often do well here
- Good working knowledge of valuations, variations and cost reporting
- Good with clients. Relationships matter here, as most of the work is repeat business
- Happy to roll your sleeves up and get stuck in, and keen to help build the business rather than just run your own jobs
- A QS degree, or working towards one, is a plus, but experience counts for more
- Salary up to £50,000 depending on experience
- Performance-related bonus, set up by the Commercial Director
- Fast-track salary progression for people who step up
- Your own projects and real responsibility from early on
- Day-to-day support and mentoring from an experienced Commercial Manager
- A clear route to Quantity Surveyor for the right person
- A financially solid, debt-free business with a steady pipeline of repeat work
- A new office in Farringdon and a small, close team where your work is seen and counts
To apply or find out more, send your CV or get in touch for a confidential conversation.