Quantity Surveyor

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £55k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Stonewater

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2015

🏗️ Construction

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Construction • Healthcare • Logistics

Stonewater is a registered social landlord and housing association that provides safe, affordable homes across the UK, offering rental, shared ownership and purchase options. It also operates specialised services including retirement and supported living schemes, domestic abuse refuges, LGBTQ+ safe spaces, and young people’s foyers, with a mission focused on enabling people to have a place they can call home. Stonewater emphasizes employee development and inclusive culture as part of its organizational values.

📋 Description

• Take commercial and cost management responsibility across contracts and workstreams, particularly high-volume responsive repairs, empty homes, gas and electrical works • Review and challenge contractor costs at job and line-item level • Scrutinise Schedule of Rates pricing, variations, applications and supporting evidence • Monitor expenditure and identify cost trends, risks, inefficiencies and savings opportunities • Lead and support cost benchmarking, value engineering and commercial reviews • Provide commercial advice and constructive challenge to operational and procurement colleagues • Assess contract variations, claims and other commercial matters • Support contract negotiations and new commercial arrangements • Identify and manage contractual and financial risks • Build effective contractor relationships while maintaining strong commercial challenge • Use data and commercial insight to improve services and contractual arrangements • Develop smarter and more innovative approaches to strengthen commercial control • Help deliver efficient, high-quality services and positive outcomes for Stonewater customers

🎯 Requirements

• Significant Quantity Surveying experience within a large or complex organisation; social housing experience particularly welcomed • Strong knowledge of the NHF Schedule of Rates (SOR) • Experience reviewing contractor costs across high-volume repairs and maintenance workstreams • Track record of delivering measurable savings, efficiencies and performance improvements • Strong financial management, budgeting and costing experience • Excellent analytical skills and confidence using data to inform decisions • Strong Excel capability, including PivotTables, lookup formulas and graphs • Excellent influencing, negotiation and communication skills • Ability to challenge constructively, resolve conflict and build effective long-term partnerships • HND, relevant professional qualification or equivalent experience within construction, housing, property or Quantity Surveying • Full UK driving licence and ability to drive when required • Knowledge of building and contract law, building regulations and health and safety legislation advantageous • Satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check, if applicable • Satisfactory references • Valid Right to Work document • May require specific qualifications, skills, knowledge and behaviours to meet the Competence and Conduct Standard for Social Housing

🏖️ Benefits

• Salary of £55,000 per year • Full-time employment • 37.5 hours per week • Potential opportunity to study towards a professional qualification if not already qualified • Disability Confident Employer workplace support • Employer commitment to supporting disability, mental health and wellbeing in the workplace