Quantity Surveyor

Curo Enterprise, a multiple award-winning residential developer based in Bath, is seeking a Quantity Surveyor with experience in the housing sector. This is an exciting opportunity to join a culture led and values led company with a great pipeline of developments located within an hour’s travel of Bath.

Why join Curo Enterprise?

Curo Enterprise are the commercial house building division of Curo, a leading not-for-profit Housing Association in Bath. Our values—Care, Respect, Openness, Fairness, and Trust—shape everything we do. We create thoughtfully designed communities where connections matter, and where our customers are at the heart of every development. Customers choosing a Curo home, are investing in a community where people come first.

As a business with social objectives, we reinvest all profits into our mission: creating Homes for Good. We also prioritise our employees' growth, offering training and development to continually improve the service we deliver.

What you’ll be doing

As the Quantity Surveyor, reporting directly to the Commercial Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring the success of our construction projects by taking responsibility for commercial management of projects from viability procurement, through to delivery and completion. You’ll use your commercial and procurement experience to focus on budget management, supply chain performance and risk management, thus, resulting in providing quality development projects we can be proud of.

You will significantly contribute to value management, value engineering studies and provide cost advice. You will lead on all sub-contractor supply chain procurement matters at project level and assist with the identification and assessment of sub-contractors.

More about you

You’ll demonstrate your ability to successfully deliver customer-focused services in a complex and challenging environment. With excellent project management skills, you’ll work in an organised and methodical manner while multitasking efficiently. Proactive and determined, you’ll be capable of meeting tight deadlines, have a keen eye for detail, and maintain a pleasant, personable demeanor, thriving in a collaborative team environment.

You’ll bring strong procurement and administrative expertise, with substantial experience in construction procurement and proficiency in COINs software. Your IT skills, combined with first-rate communication and negotiation abilities, will enable you to collaborate effectively with suppliers and colleagues.

Additionally, you’ll demonstrate strong numerical and analytical skills, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and adapt quickly to change. As a team player, you’ll support both team and corporate objectives, while having the confidence to challenge the status quo, continuously improve, and learn along the way.

When and where you'll be doing it

Your office base will be at The Hub at Mulberry Park in Bath but with flexibility to work from home 2 days a week. You will be required to attend site meetings on sites which are located within approx. 1 hour from Bath so a driving license and your own car is essential.

What you’ll get in return

• A dynamic and collaborative work environment.
• A culture-led and values driven company.
• An excellent pipeline of work.
• Flexible working options for all staff members centred around 3 days office, 2 days WFH.
• Opportunity to work for an innovative and forward-thinking House Builder and Housing Association.

We think you’ll have a job that makes you feel good about what you’re doing and help us to make a difference to our customers’ lives every day.

So, in return for all your hard work, not only do you get a great salary, but we also offer our Quantity Surveyor:

• 26 days annual leave (plus public holidays) rising to 29 days after 3 years’ service.
• An additional day’s leave on your birthday.
• Contributory (Salary Sacrifice) Pension Scheme matched by CURO up to 10%.
• Annual bonus.
• Life Assurance Policy (up to 6x your annual salary).
• Flexible Benefits including the ability to buy up to 5 days additional annual leave, gym membership, Health Cash Plan, Computer Scheme, Green Cars, Cycle to Work.
• ‘Perks at Work’ – access to 1000’s of discounts online and in-store.
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) – providing friendly impartial advice on financial, health, work or mental wellbeing.
• Free Parking at many of our Offices.

For an informal discussion about the role please call: Stuart Smith 07989 669 931.

We will be closing applications on 17th November; however, we will be reviewing applications as they come in and may close the vacancy earlier should we find the right applicant. So, if you think you’re the person for this job, please don’t delay and apply today.

Curo is an organisation with social purpose at its heart. We provide affordable homes that help people find security and stability and a positive future. We’re one of the largest housing associations in the South West and an expanding house builder, using our profits to create more affordable housing in our communities.

Our values are at the core of how we work. We care about our colleagues and their wellbeing and recognise their sense of pride in the work they do to support our customers.

We’re proud to say that since 2016 we have been ranked by Best Companies as being in the UK's top 75 Large Companies to work for. We're also listed in the top 10 best housing associations to work for in the country, and among the top 25 best companies to work for in the South West!

One more thing

We provide homes and services to a community that is diverse. We recognise that we need to do more to ensure that the colleagues in our organisation better reflect and understand the community we serve and for that reason we particularly welcome applications from any diverse background and abilities. We are also a recognised ‘disability confident’ employer. If you think you are right for this role, we encourage you to apply!

If you need support to assist you to make an application or attend an interview, then please email our recruitment team at recruitment@curo-group.co.uk and we will be happy to help.