Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council’s Urban Design & Building Services team is looking to employ a permanent principal lead quantity surveyor. You will be working alongside a creative, innovative, multi-disciplinary and self-motivated team of 68 professionals comprising architects, landscape architects, structural engineers, building surveyors, property surveyors, mechanical and electrical engineers and associated co-ordination staff.

You will be required to lead and take management responsibility for delivering construction related quantity surveying services to multiple areas of the council, managing people and other resources in order to deliver priorities and objectives of the council’s ‘Vision 2030 Sandwell’ commitments. You will also be required to identify and develop business opportunities ensuring commercial best value.

You will lead a team comprising of 1 chartered QS, 2 none chartered QS’s, 1 trainee QS, 3 clerks of works, 2 finance officers and 2 FM management officers. Urban Design & Building Services deliver a full range of construction related services on a variety of new build, re-modelling and refurbishment projects on behalf of the council’s internal and external clients, including housing, education, leisure and adult services schemes ranging from £10k to £15m. 

We offer flexible working hours to help maintain a good work life balance.

This current vacancy is available to a suitably qualified person.  The minimum requirement is you must be a chartered quantity surveyor with either MRICS or FRICS or educated to relevant degree standard with a minimum of 5 years’ post qualification experience of working within a complex environment and must commit to obtain chartered status of the RICS within a reasonable period of time after appointment.

For an informal chat, please contact Tony Farnsworth, Principal Lead Quantity Surveyor on 0121 569 4581 or 07769 935150 or email: tony_farnsworth@sandwell.gov.uk.

Our Values; Trust, Unity and Progress make us unique, they define how we do things and are reflected in the way we behave. They are important to us, guiding and shaping our organisational culture. Our values are key to us achieving Sandwell’s Vision 2030 and also guide us when we recruit.

Hours

37 hours per week

This vacancy and advert will be closed as soon as sufficient applications are received. Therefore, it is strongly advised that you complete and return your application as soon as possible.

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