Senior Quantity Surveyor – Maidenhead Full Time

Senior Quantity Surveyor – Maidenhead

Persimmon Homes North London has a vacancy for an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor to join their successful and growing team. This role will be working on projects across the Northern Home Counties and the office is based in Maidenhead.

Who are we?

Building around 16,500 beautifully designed new homes a year in more than 350 prime locations nationwide; Persimmon is one of the UK’s leading house-builders, committed to the highest standards of design, construction and service. We believe our quality really differentiates us from the competition. In fact, our reputation is built on quality. We build quickly and efficiently and expect a lot from our office and site teams, however in turn we’ll reward you for your commitment and hard work and recognise your contribution to the business.

As a Senior Quantity Surveyor you will be responsible for overseeing the commercial management of various small and large housing projects. You will report to the Head of Commercial and work within a close knit team of surveyors, often mentoring junior members of staff. The Head of Commercial will support and develop you in the way Persimmon operate, empowering you to run with projects, but always on hand to discuss areas for improvement. They will give you clear objectives. You will need to be adaptable and strong in your management style with a consistent approach with the site teams and subcontractors.

If this sounds appealing to you we will require:

Confident commercial management and the ability to value engineer subcontractor packages, whilst protecting the interests of the team and regional office. It’s likely that you have worked on residential projects previously, this would be a distinct advantage. We use COINS to administer our payments so previous experience in this system would be beneficial, otherwise training can be provided. We will consider surveying experience from the building contracting sector. The housing industry certainly has a lot to offer at the moment, its growing and Persimmon can offer consistency in future projects.

It is desirable that you have a relevant Surveying qualification, either an HND or degree or equivalent.

What’s in it for you?

A competitive salary and benefits package including a pension, life insurance, company car or car allowance, healthcare and generous bonus. Above all an honest and driven approach which offers the chance to work with some great people!

Persimmon offer flexible working hour arrangements with the agreement of the Head of Department

Persimmon has a Hybrid Working Policy for core roles in the business allowing staff on completion of probation to apply for home working up to 2/3 days per week.

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