Freelance Senior Quantity Surveyor Stowmarket, Suffolk, UK
I am a Senior Quantity Surveyor with a wealth of experience in connection with most modern forms of construction ranging from listed buildings to major multi million design & build projects.
| Rating: | Unrated (New) |
| Hourly Rate / Cost: | £44.44 per hour |
| Daily Rate / Cost: | £355.56 per day |
| Available From: | Now |
| Seller ID: | 321985 |
CV (Curriculum Vitae) / Résumé
My experience includes marketing, buying, estimating and the financial and contractual management of contracts from their inception through cost planning and up to and including the agreement of final account including where necessary the settlement of commercial claims. I have managed adjudication and dispute resolution matters with some success. I consider myself to be a team player with a clear sense of direction tempered with humour.
Principle Activities
• Marketing submissions and presentations
• Estimating and tender proposals
• Procurement of subcontract works, equipment and services
• Financial management and board reports
• Budget and cash flow controls
• Planning and progress reporting
• Contractual and commercial proposals
• Presentation and negotiation of final accounts
• Valuation of work and authorisation of technical payments
• Dispute resolution, including adjudication
Employment History
(2001 to 2009)
Practising Quantity Surveyor
Client side
Providing commercial support to senior civil & electrical project managers within EDF Energy Group in connection with 132 KV overhead power line installation and design & build £50 million GIS switching substations. Establish and manage design budgets, agree target cost and stage payments, process compensation events and other change orders with framework contractors and international equipment suppliers. Negotiate final accounts and claims management. Framework based on NEC Option 3 or fully bespoke supply contracts.
Processional Quantity surveying offices
Quantity surveyor with EC Harris handling a civil and build packages on £60 multi-million high rise waterside commercial/residential projects in central Ipswich
Quantity surveyor with Edmund Shipway working under NEC contract Option 3 measure value and change order management at the £35 million Centre Parcs development in Suffolk.
Quantity surveyor with private practice PQS and CA in connection with £8 million refurbishment of hospital accommodation into private flats for Persimmon Homes.
Framework Contactor
Cost manager with Amey Mouchel settling major compensation events with Highways Agency on with a £90 million Term Maintenance Highways Contract.
Contractor and Developer
Individual commissions with Developers and Builders involved in new build & refurbishment of housing, education and other commercial & public projects under a variety of contracts. Budgets certification claims and dispute resolution.
(1997 to 2001)
Senior quantity surveyor
Senior quantity surveyor and contracts manager responsible for the commercial and contractual management of a number of simultaneous projects. The work included the planning, pricing and management of a variety of Grade 1 listed buildings within the Trinity College Complex Cambridge in conjunction with other commercial projects.
(1991 to 1997)
General management of a construction consultancy
Private Practice ConsultancyGeneral management of a construction consultancy providing commercial and technical advice as well as dispute resolution to a variety of clients in management contracting and conventional building operations.
(1989 to 1991)
Purchasing Manager
Kier Management Limited
Purchasing Manager with responsibility for all buying involved with a number of projects for a design and build management contractor.
(1987 to 1989)
Commercial Manager
Wimpey Construction Management LimitedCommercial Manager acting as head of procurement for all pre construction activities on a £135 million project in Central London. The assignment involved the preparation of tendering documents, bid analysis negotiations of cost and business terms and placement of orders in conjunction with others in the professional team.
(1985 to 1987)
Chief Surveyor managing
Ashby and Horner LimitedChief Surveyor managing a department of twelve surveyors. Reporting to commercial director and being responsible for estimating briefs, tender bidding, cost plans. Duties included production of monthly budget, turnover and cash flow reports; valuation cost comparison, dispute reconciliation and authorization of sub contract payments.
(1973 to 1985)
Senior Quantity Surveyor
Richard Costain LimitedSenior Quantity Surveyor controlling commercial projects at Heathrow and Gatwick airports involving cost planning, valuations and cost reports to director and managing cash flow balances.
Professional Qualifications
• City and Guilds Advanced Surveying Practice
• Higher National Certificate in Building
• Associate Member Chartered Institute of Building
• Short courses on Legal, Quality Assurance, Man Management, Contract Negotiation and Business Administration.
• National Vocational Qualification in Supervisory Management
Categories & Freelance Skills
Administration Support
Categories
Skills
Engineering & Technical
Categories
Skills
- £50m to £200m (Construction - Building & Construction - Experience - Project Size)
- Commercial Offices (Construction - Building & Construction - Experience)
- Commercial/Finance Management (Construction - Building & Construction - Experience)
- Concrete Frames (Construction - Building & Construction - Experience)
- Construction Accounting (Construction - Building & Construction - Experience)
- Construction Management (Construction - Building & Construction - Experience)
- Construction Planning (Construction - Building & Construction - Experience)
- Contract Administration (Construction - Building & Construction - Experience)
- Education (Construction - Building & Construction - Experience)
- Estimating/Proposals (Construction - Building & Construction - Experience)
- High Rise Projects (Construction - Building & Construction - Experience)
- Historic / Listed Buildings (Construction - Building & Construction - Experience)
- Hotel (Construction - Building & Construction - Experience)
- Housing (Construction - Building & Construction - Experience)
- Infrastructure (Construction - Building & Construction - Experience)
- Land Reclamation/Contaminated Sites (Construction - Building & Construction - Experience)
- New Build Construction (Construction - Building & Construction - Experience)
- Power (Construction - Building & Construction - Experience - Infrastructure)
- Power Stations (Construction - Building & Construction - Experience)
- Procurement/Buying (Construction - Building & Construction - Experience)
- Project Audit (Construction - Building & Construction - Experience - Quantity Surveying/Cost Consulting)
- Project Cost Management (Construction - Building & Construction - Experience - Quantity Surveying/Cost Consulting)
- Project Size (Construction - Building & Construction - Experience)
- Quantity Surveying/Cost Consulting (Construction - Building & Construction - Experience)
- Renovation (Construction - Building & Construction - Experience)
- Residential Housebuilding (Construction - Building & Construction - Experience)
- Residential Multi-storey (Construction - Building & Construction - Experience)
- Retail (Construction - Building & Construction - Experience)
- Social Housing (Construction - Building & Construction - Experience)
- Steel Frames (Construction - Building & Construction - Experience)

