Assistant Quantity Surveyor

Widford, Essex
Bennett and Game Recruitment LTD

Position: Assistant Quantity Surveyor

Location: Chelmsford, Essex

Salary: 50,000 – 60,000

We are pleased to be working with a dynamic and rapidly growing remediation and recladding specialist based in Chelmsford that’s expanding fast across London. The business is part of a well-established fa ade & building-envelope group with nearly 50 years’ heritage and employing in the region of 50-60 staff in this division alone, and with turnover more than 25 million and ambition to scale significantly.

This is a superb opportunity for a driven Quantity Surveyor to join a high-performing commercial team delivering vital remediation and recladding schemes across London. You will play a pivotal role in a company with a clear vision, strong culture and ambition to lead the market, earning genuine responsibility, progression and exposure within major large-scale projects.

Assistant Quantity Surveyor Salary & Benefits

• Salary: 50,000 – 60,000 (dependant on experience)
• Company-wide bonus scheme
• Health care cash plan
• Pension scheme
• Free parking
• EV car scheme
• Company events
• Hybrid working available following onboarding

Assistant Quantity Surveyor Job Overview

• Partner with the Divisional Commercial Director to manage all commercial elements of high-value remediation/recladding projects across London.
• Administer project contractual requirements, including Applications for Payment, Contractual Notices, Variations and Loss & Expense claims.
• Maintain and manage accurate project records.
• Produce monthly financial reports: Cost Value Reconciliation (CVR), risk & opportunity registers, ISV forecasting.
• Lead the procurement process: prepare procurement plans, engage the project team, conduct tenders, analyze supplier quotations and place project package orders.
• Administer supplier contracts, agree payments, variations, claims and manage final accounts.
• Ensure final account agreement with clients.
• Operate in a high-energy, professional and fast-paced environment, working closely with both office and site teams.
• Drive improvements to commercial performance, support business growth and deliver projects “right first time”.

Assistant Quantity Surveyor Job Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years’ relevant experience in a commercial/quantity surveyor role within the Fa ade sector
• Strong communication and team working skills, effective at all levels and comfortable engaging with both site and supply chain teams.
• High attention to detail, excellent accuracy and integrity in commercial reporting and negotiation.
• Driven, solutions-oriented with a focus on improving GP margins and achieving results.
• Sound contractual and commercial expertise, business acumen and negotiation ability.
• Proven ability to manage client relationships, cost recovery, dispute avoidance and timely project outcomes.
• Comfortable working on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel to London sites as required.

Desirable:

• Experience in remediation or recladding markets, fa ade refurbishment.
• Degree or HNC/HND in Construction Management, Quantity Surveying or related discipline.
• Accredited CSCS card, SMSTS.

Bennett & Game Recruitment are acting as a Recruitment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Bennett and Game Recruitment are a multi-disciplined technical recruitment agency based in Chichester, West Sussex operating across the UK with specialist teams covering a range of industries.

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