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What You'll Be Doing Quantity Surveyor
We are recruiting a highly skilled Senior Quantity Surveyor specialising in Mechanical Services to lead commercial management across Southwark Councils major Individual and District Heating contracts, Water Hygiene and Building Energy Management Systems, managing over 8,000 jobs per month. This is a specialist, high-value, high-complexity role, central to the delivery of safe, compliant and resilient heating and water services for thousands of residents.
This position covers some of the Councils largest contracts, where annual contract values exceed 20m and involve complex technical and statutory requirements. We're looking for someone who can confidently navigate major mechanical services contracts and bring rigorous commercial assurance to mission-critical infrastructure.
You will:
- Lead commercial control across all heating and water contracts, ensuring accuracy, value for money and compliance
- Review contract documentation and support the tendering of district heating schemes
- Prepare budget forecasts and monthly financial reporting
- Undertake monthly valuations, including verification of Prime Cost sums
- Review dayworks, manual orders and schedule of rates compliance
- Monitor Planned Preventative Maintenance costs
- Conduct post-inspection reviews and adjust contractor valuations where required
- Reconcile historic accounts and maintain audit-ready documentation
- Issue certificates, pay less notices and valuation reports on a strict monthly timetable
- Negotiate firmly and confidently with contractors, ensuring valuations, variations and wider commercial positions are rigorously tested and stand up to scrutiny
- Provide forensic QS support where required
- Contribute to staff development as part of the councils social value commitments
This is an opportunity to lead commercial assurance on some of the Councils most specialist, high-impact contracts – critical to resident safety and service reliability.
Quantity Surveyor We are looking for a seasoned quantity surveyor who can operate confidently in highly technical M&E environments.
You will bring: Quantity Surveyor
- Strong understanding of mechanical services, district heating or other complex M&E systems
- Demonstrable experience managing high-value, multi-contract portfolios
- Exceptional attention to detail and strong commercial rigour
- Ability to manage structured monthly valuation cycles with a high level of accuracy
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to work closely with engineers, technical teams and contractors
- Confidence in challenging valuations, interrogating variations and maintaining robust commercial positions
- Strong financial and reporting capability, with the ability to manage records, forecasts and supporting documentation effectively
To apply for this job please visit www.reed.co.uk.
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