Assistant Quantity Surveyor

Mears provides temporary accommodation to asylum seekers whilst their claim is being assessed in three regions: Northeast, Yorkshire and Humber, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. At the end of May 2021 Mears had over 19000 service users across the three regions. Mears works in partnership with central and local Government, home office, registered providers, tenants, landlords and investors to find solutions to homelessness, provide more social and affordable housing and create specialist housing for people with care needs.

About the Role:

Due to a contract expansion and recent acquisition wins, we are seeking an Assistant Quantity Surveyor to join our team.

As an Assistant Quantity Surveyor within Mears, you will be working alongside a local team assisting the Commercial & General Manager with commercial control & reporting on high standard Commercial activities to Housing properties, delivering best in class commercial acumen, customer service and satisfying all safety, quality, and cost control standards.

As an Assistant Quantity Surveyor within our Durham and Darlington branch, your main duties will involve communicating with our surveyors, compliance team, contract managers, and supervisors. You will liaise with subcontractors ensuring all work is put through internal systems and payments received. Involvement includes responsive maintenance, voids, electrical testing, gas repairs, and general building work. This will involve cost versus value reconciliation, including usage of the national federation of schedule of rates, pricing schedules provided by building surveyors, reviewing purchase orders, and the day-to-day monitoring of working progress utilizing our internal MCM / MSP systems.

Role Criteria:

• Involvement in responsive maintenance contracts
• An understanding of national federation rates
• IT literate
• Team player
• Ability to negotiate and influence
• Full UK driving license

All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK; Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship.

Benefits we can offer you:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Annual Mears Fun Day - Our annual Fun Day is organized as a massive thank you from the Executive team for all the hard work!
• Volunteering Leave - Mears supports employees to undertake paid volunteering in the community, in support of our social value commitment.
• Staff perks with Mears Rewards - discounts of up to 10% on weekly groceries, holidays, eye test vouchers, Share save scheme, plus much more.

Mears Group is a Disability confident employer and recognizes our people as our greatest asset. We hire individuality, recognizing and valuing everyone as individual and ensuring equal access to opportunities for all regardless of social economic background or individual makeup.

As part of the recruitment process for this role, we will carry out a DBS & BPSS check, as well as Security Clearance. For these checks to be completed, we will require from you the relevant identification, including Proof of Address, References, a valid passport, and proof that you have lived in the UK for the last 5 years.

About the company

Mears Group plc is a housing and social care provider.