- Are you a Chartered (or senior) Quantity Surveyor?
- Are you looking to take your next step on the career ladder?
- Are you passionate about nurturing talent progress within the team?
Why work with us?
About our team?
The Cost Management team in Winchester employs 16 people and is part of a larger 140-person Cost Management service throughout the UK offices. We’re a social, professional, and supportive team that wants to progress as a group.
Who are we?
Ridge is a built environment consultancy, helping our clients transform the quality and sustainability of the built environment. We are enabled by great people who are inspired and proud of what they do and respected for who they are.
Our people are the foundation of our success, and our greatest asset and what separate us, they drive our vision and embody our values. We offer not just a job, but a journey. We believe in commitment, and the value of a stable, flexible, long-term career path. We challenge our people to be the best they can be and help them grow with the right development.
What's in it for you?
- Growth which fuels ideas and opportunity for all
- Purposeful and meaningful work
- Continual development and mentoring
- Empowerment, inclusivity and respect
- Happiness and enjoyment
- Openness, honesty and integrity
- Acting as one team
- A healthy holiday balance of 25 days, plus bank holidays & the ability to buy / sell to suit you
- 3 days a year to give your time to others, volunteering for great causes
- An inclusive wellbeing offer:
- Financial – Life Assurance, Pension Scheme (3% Employee, 6% Employer), Income Protection, Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme, flexible choice of Critical Illness Insurance
- Physical – Free Private Medical Insurance, Doctor at Hand Private GP, Best Doctors, flexible choice of Dental Plan, Cycle to Work Scheme, GymFlex & Healthcare Cash Plan
- Mental – Mental Health First Aiders, Help@Hand by Unum
- A flexible approach to hybrid working, to suit both you & your team
- Tailored career development – focused on professional, personal and/or educational
A polite note to Recruitment Agencies
We enjoy great relationships with our agency partners within our framework, and fully believe in the value of a blended approach to finding the best talent. However, we are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from agency partners at this time – any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownerships on any introduction that you make for roles that haven’t been briefed & released to you by our Talent Acquisition team.
We are committed to nurturing strong partnerships within our agency framework, but there are occasions where we looking to enlist the help of others. If you would be interested in working with us in the future, please send a message to workwithus@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.
- Manage and lead on aspects of quantity surveying and cost consultancy including pre and post contract duties
- Lead from the front as regards to client facing meetings, dealing with multi-disciplined teams and project delivery
- Produce cost estimates and cost plans
- Prepare tendering documents
- Manage the tender process, review and analyse tender returns and prepare recommendations to the client as well as advice on procurement and contracts
- Attend meetings, prepare financial reports and monitor on the status of projects
- Ensure the project remains on budget from design to completion phase
- Full post contract duties including establishing the effect of variations and evaluating and negotiating final account settlements
- Build and maintain trusted relationships with clients, always maintaining the highest standards of professional competence
- Support and manage junior team members to deliver our cost management service efficiently and effectively
- Contribute to winning new work and/or repeat business
- Manage large scale and/or multiple projects with key clients
- Evaluate costs and advise on alternative proposals
- Provide advice on contract arrangements and conditions under which the project will be delivered
- Advise architects and engineers on the cost implications of different construction methods, alternative choices of materials and size and quality of the project to ensure that each element is reconciled with the cost plan allowance and the overall project remains within budget
- Degree qualification (RICS accredited or equivalent)
- MRICS Chartered
- Experience of high value and complex projects gained in a consultancy environment.
- Residential, education, retail, commercial, and leisure sector experience.
- Natural communicator, capable of establishing and maintaining strong client relationships.
- Commercially aware with excellent negotiation and organisational skills.
- Knowledge and experienced in use of Microsoft Office packages, CAD and measurement software (CostX, Causeway Cato, Bluebeam or similar)