Quantity Surveyor Ascent Homes

Salary: £38,000 - £55,000

About Advance Northumberland

Advance Northumberland is a “place shaping” one stop shop focused almost exclusively on regenerating Northumberland. Our people are our core competence, with a diverse skills mix, they form several discrete specialised business units, enabling us to deliver some of the most visionary and transformational projects.

Whether its support and funding for new and developing businesses, the remediation of challenging brownfield sites, building of large-scale manufacturing units, delivering new purpose-built offices, delivery of major town centre redevelopments, including complex retail developments, leisure facilities or the delivery of high-quality market sale and affordable housing it can all be found in this unique regeneration company.

We work collaboratively with stakeholders and partners, delivering positive physical and economic development.  Focusing on the needs and aspirations of the county, addressing economic, housing and infrastructure challenges whilst capitalising on Northumberland’s significant assets and opportunities. We deliver a comprehensive regeneration capability to improve the County’s economic prosperity, regenerate communities, improve liveability and create a more connected and aspirational County.

In doing so, we will support a broader county-wide assets-based approach to promote economic growth and an improved quality of life for its communities. Building on the opportunities emerging from North of the Tyne and Borderlands initiatives to enhance its regeneration impact, taking its lead from Northumberland County Council, and working in collaboration with key partners.

Your key duties & responsibilities will be:

As part of Commercial Team in Ascent Homes, working as a Quantity Surveyor, you will have responsibility for specific construction sites and all associated contractual and financial management of projects.

Your Day to Day will Include

• Organising component work packages for procurement and assessing returns from sub-contractors and awarding work packages.
• Negotiating with sub-contractor supply chain to achieve best value.
• Managing applications for payment from sub-contractors and preparation of applications for payment.
• Monitoring and measuring actual expenditure against budgeted project expenditure in the form of CVR (Cost Value Reconciliation Reports)
• Preparation of final accounts
• Working with the wider Ascent Homes team to ensure we deliver a commercially viable product.

This is an exciting time to join our Commercial Team, as we introduce a new Head of Department and continuing the implementation of our new software (Coins).

To apply:

Please send a letter of application saying why you want to work for us and what you’d bring to the role, together with your and the completed application form included in this pack. Please send these to: workforus@advancenorthumberland.co.uk

For an informal discussion, please contact: Paul Errington, Director of Ascent Homes on 07971 114833

Closing date for applications – 3^rd December 2024 at 10.00am

Interviews will be held on the 10^th December 2024

We may close this role early if we receive sufficient applications.

If you wish to withdraw your consent for us to process your application, please email us at: workforus@advancenorthumberland.co.uk

 No agencies please

Application Pack: Quantity Surveyor Application Pack