Senior Quantity Surveyor

1. Role purpose

Provide senior commercial leadership on allocated residential projects and support consistent standards across the surveying team. Control cost, risk, procurement, payment and final accounts to protect sustainable profit and cash while ensuring commercial decisions uphold health and safety, statutory compliance and quality.

2. Key responsibilities

• Take senior commercial responsibility for allocated projects from pre-contract review through construction and final account.
• Prepare and maintain robust project budgets, cost plans, forecasts and monthly cost value reconciliations.
• Analyse actual, committed and forecast costs against budget and explain movements, risks, opportunities and cash effects.
• Develop and maintain procurement schedules aligned with the approved construction programme and available design information.
• Prepare and review tender enquiries, tender comparisons, recommendations and subcontract documentation.
• Assess subcontractor applications, variations, contra-charges and final accounts fairly, accurately and on time.
• Maintain clear records of instructions, site events, measurement, quotations, approvals and commercial correspondence.
• Manage commercial risk and opportunity registers and implement agreed mitigation or recovery actions.
• Monitor subcontractor financial and operational performance and escalation emerging capacity, quality or delivery concerns.
• Work with Production and Technical teams to test buildability, sequencing, information release and the commercial effect of programme change.
• Lead value-engineering reviews that protect health and safety, statutory compliance, design intent, specification and residential quality.
• Support cash-flow forecasting by maintaining credible payment, liability and recovery profiles.
• Drive subcontract final accounts and project commercial close-out, including outstanding credits, warranties and records relevant to the commercial account.
• Mentor Quantity Surveyors, Project Surveyors, Assistant Surveyors and trainees, reviewing work in proportion to their competence.
• Contribute benchmark rates, procurement intelligence and lessons learned to future developments.
• Escalate material adverse change, unsupported exposure and matters outside approved delegations promptly.

3. Reporting outputs

• Monthly project cost value reconciliation with forecast, variance, risk, opportunity and cash commentary.
• Procurement schedule and package-status report linked to the current construction and design programmes.
• Subcontract payment, variation and final-account tracker.
• Project commercial risk and opportunity register with actions, owners and review dates.
• Commercial close-out and lessons-learned report for allocated projects.

4. Performance measures

• Accurate, timely and evidence-based project forecasts and cost value reconciliations.
• Sustainable project profit protected and forecast value converted into cash through disciplined administration.
• Procurement supports the approved programme without compromising health and safety, compliance or quality.
• Payments, variations and final accounts are assessed fairly and progressed without avoidable delay.
• Commercial risks and opportunities are identified early and actively managed.
• Project records provide a complete and retrievable audit trail.
• Junior surveyors receive effective review, coaching and progressively appropriate responsibility.

5. Required competence and experience

• Extensive quantity-surveying experience on housebuilding or residential-development projects in Ireland or the UK.
• Strong capability in cost planning, procurement, measurement, valuation, forecasting and final accounts.
• Sound working knowledge of relevant construction contracts and subcontract administration.
• Ability to interpret drawings, specifications, programmes and technical information and assess their commercial effect.
• Practical understanding of construction health and safety, statutory compliance, quality and handover requirements.
• Strong negotiation, analytical, mentoring and stakeholder-management skills.
• High standards of accuracy, integrity, evidence management and commercial judgement.

6. Authority and boundaries

• May lead day-to-day commercial management of allocated projects and direct junior surveying work within agreed assignments.
• May negotiate and recommend procurement, valuation and final-account positions, but commitments and settlements remain subject to approved delegations.
• Must refer material forecast changes, disputes, legal or contractual risk and matters outside delegated aut