Assistant Quantity Surveyor 31Jan PH

Assistant Quantity Surveyor

Rate of Pay: from ?15.78 up to ?18.00

Hours: 37 hours

Location: Operations and Development Centre, Roway Lane, Oldbury B69 3DE

Start Date: ASAP

Contract type: Temporary - 12 weeks

Job Description and Personnel Specification are attached, which also provides more information above the role.

Brief description:

Within the Housing and Communities area of the Neighbourhoods Directorate, on a day to day basis we operationally deliver 130,000 repairs to Council homes, undertake over ?50m of internal and external refurbishments including day to day repairs to our properties, deal with on average 8,000 reports of anti-social behaviour and make 20 million waste collections.

As an Assistant Quantity Surveyor within the Asset Management and Maintenance area of the Housing and Communities function, you will be a key part of the Investment Team responsible for assisting with the commercial management of the Housing Revenue Account Investment Programme.

As an Assistant Quantity Surveyor your work will involve:

• oAssisting with day to day commercial and contract activities
• oAssisting with the measurement and preparation of valuations
• oAssist with preparing and agreeing interim valuations and final accounts
• oRecord, monitor and review the financial performance of contracts
• oManage financial accounts and report to senior management on performance
• oPricing and agreement of non-standard rates
• oAssisting in the development of appropriate contract documentation
• oProcurement of goods, services and works contracts

We would love to hear from applicants who can demonstrate:

• oExcellent commercial awareness
• oAn analytical approach to problem solving
• oExperience in Housing Refurbishment and Maintenance
• oKnowledge of relevant forms of Building contract, health and safety legislation and rules of measurement
• oExperience of using standard office software including spreadsheets, word processing and data base
• oAbility to work under pressure, organise your own workload and meet deadlines

You must have a HNC/D or equivalent qualification in Quantity Surveying/Building Studies.

This is an important role for Sandwell and if you are up for the challenge of improving our Asset Management capability we would love to hear from you.

Please can the agencies send over a CV, 2x up to date references and a copy of Terms and Conditions. You will also need to include your agency on cost details to each submission. Stated rates must be inclusive of all known costs.

No DBS is required for this role.

This role is inside IR35.

Please note this advert is also out with our Master Vendor

You will receive further information regarding invoice terms if your candidate is appointed to this role. Invoices must be sent electronically on a weekly basis to templink_1@sandwell.gov.uk along with your workers authorised timesheet supplied by your agency. P...

Additional information:

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Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No