Quantity Surveyor

Job Title: Quantity Surveyor

Salary: £53,000

Job Location: Homebased with travel as required.  We would prefer a home location in the north of England, this includes Northwest, Northeast and Yorkshire/Lincolnshire.

About Us

We are the largest not-for-profit provider of housing and care for older people in England. We manage 60,000 homes for people in later life across almost 1,700 sites and operate in over 85% of local councils in England. Helping people enjoy later life is our passion. It has been for nearly 60 years. And today, in an ageing society, our housing, care and support is needed more than ever.

As England’s largest provider of specialist housing and care for those in later life, we’re committed to creating choice and opportunity for everyone. We put our residents at the heart of everything we do, listening carefully and shaping our homes and services around them.

And we’re proudly not-for-profit, which means every penny we make is reinvested into our properties and services, building more and innovating for the future so that people can have a home where they love living in later life.

Why Join the Property Delivery Team?

We are diverse team of over 100 colleagues delivering resident focused property solutions. We operate through a team of 50 surveyors each with a defined group of locations and each surveyor is responsible for between 30 and 40 locations.

This is an exciting time to join us as we conclude procurement of 15-year, £1.7bn contracts. The 8 new contracts will provide a transformational approach to how we deliver services to our residents and realise efficiencies for Anchor. To equip Anchor with the skills and capacity to realise the benefits of these contracts we are recruiting to various new roles!

If you are as passionate as we are about making a positive impact, value holistic property management, and want to contribute to the well-being of older people, now is the time to join our team.

The Role

As a Quantity Surveyor, you will provide effective commercial and contract management arrangements, focusing on NEC and/or JCT contracts. Your responsibilities will encompass ensuring that the commercial interests, contract management requirements, and contractual obligations of Anchor are safeguarded for repairs, investment, and M&E services across our portfolio of Housing and Care properties.

Key Accountabilities will include:

• Developing robust financial forecasting and cost analysis to support the procurement team and contract delivery team.
• Collaborating with finance colleagues to ensure a clear understanding of current costs and commercial models and to establish effective payment and financial forecast mechanisms.
• Managing the financial performance of contracts, ensuring accurate financial forecasting.
• Overseeing the timely updating of all financial systems.
• Taking responsibility for cost-saving initiatives through collaboration with contractors, undertaking cost value reconciliation, and certification of payments.
• Pricing works from first principles and benchmark costs using market data to inform procurement and efficient delivery.
• Undertaking audits of commercial and contract management arrangements with project surveyors, repairs surveyors, and compliance leads.
• Ensuring commercial contractual requirements are adhered to, including payment notices, change notices, indexation requests, and variation management.

About You:

To be successful in this role we’d like you to have:

Qualifications

• Minimum degree qualification in Quantity Surveying or appropriate relevant experience (essential).
• MRICS status (desirable).

Experience

• 3-5 years of post-qualification experience as a Quantity Surveyor.
• Recent experience in commercial and contract management of NEC and/or JCT contracts.
• Knowledge of NHF Schedule of Rates.
• Experience in open-book cost management and planning, particularly in housing maintenance.
• Proven commercial experience working within the social housing maintenance and planned investment sector, either on the contractor or client side.
• Ability to interpret complex commercial and operational data to inform savings planning.
• Knowledge and experience of commercial and contract management of NEC and/or JCT contracts.
• Experience in cost-planned investment, compliance services, and/or reactive maintenance work.
• Familiarity with current market costs in the social housing sector.
• Ensure cost and contract-related contractual notices are issued in a timely manner.

Anchor – a great place to work

Anchor is England’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.

We’re not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.

A rewarding environment

From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.

Health & happiness

• Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
• Mental health support
• Flexible working options
• Access to online GP appointments

Finance

• Pension plan – contribute between 4% and 8% and we’ll match it or better
• Quick and easy pension transfer service
• Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
• Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more

Career

• Ongoing personal and professional development programme
• Leadership Pathways online learning resources
• Career progression and promotion opportunities

To see our full range of benefits, check out our dedicated being well website Please follow the link or copy and paste https://anchorbeingwell.co.uk/ into your browser 

Celebrating diversity, celebrating you

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.  

We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members.  We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.

We are a Gold Standard Inclusive Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Menopause Friendly and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant, HouseProud Pledge and Age Friendly Employer Pledge schemes.