Quantity Surveyor
About the role
The Role
We're looking for a Quantity Surveyor to join our team at Unite Group and help deliver a range of exciting capital projects, from cladding remediation to estate improvements.
Reporting to the Head of Commercial, you'll play a key role in managing project costs, budgets, contractor relationships and procurement, ensuring projects are delivered efficiently and offer value for money.
This is a great opportunity to use your commercial expertise, work with a variety of stakeholders and make a real difference to the quality, safety and future of our estate.
What You'll Be Doing
- Providing initial cost advice on potential opportunities and new projects.
- Preparing cost plans and setting project budgets.
- Managing project costs from the early planning stages through to completion.
- Identifying and managing risks, ensuring costs are accurate to support funding requests.
- Managing on-site project costs, including reporting, cost control, cash flow, value engineering and final accounts.
- Preparing tender documents and managing contractor and supplier relationships.
- Negotiating construction contracts and overseeing contractual documents, including bonds, warranties and retentions.
- Agreeing final accounts within approved budgets.
- Supporting cost benchmarking to improve value for money across projects.
- Helping resolve existing issues, defects and claims.
- Demonstrating Unite's values and supporting key business initiatives, including net zero carbon, diversity and inclusion, and Homes for Success.
What We're Looking For In You
- Experience in a Quantity Surveying role, ideally within student accommodation or the Build to Rent sector.
- RICS or CIOB qualified, or working towards a qualification (desirable).
- Strong communication, negotiation and influencing skills, with confidence presenting in meetings.
- Good numerical skills and IT proficiency.
- Able to manage competing priorities, work at pace and maintain accuracy and attention to detail.
- A positive, flexible and collaborative approach, with a focus on delivering excellent customer and stakeholder experiences.
- Self-motivated, with the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Willingness to learn, develop new skills and take on new challenges.
- Strong relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence internal and external stakeholders.
- Willingness to travel across the UK and hold a full driving licence.
What You'll Get In Return
- A discretionary annual bonus so you can share in the company's success
- 25 days' paid holiday and an annual holiday buying scheme, with 5 additional days awarded for long service
- A generous pension scheme – employer contributions between 5% and 11% depending on how much you save
- Various benefits to support your health and wellbeing including a Healthcare Cash Plan, an Employee Assistance Programme, a Wellbeing platform and a Gym benefit that you can share with your family and friends
- Enhanced Family Leave including 18 weeks full pay for birthing parents and 4 weeks for non-birthing parents
- Lots of other great benefits including an annual ShareSave scheme, Employee Life Assurance, a discounts portal and more!
About Unite Students
Founded in 1991, Unite Students is the UK`s largest provider of purpose-built student accommodation. You can find us in 23 leading university towns and cities, with over 70,000 students calling US home! We are driven by our values, culture, and a commitment to develop diverse and inclusive teams, filled with positive energy and new ideas.
Instinctive inclusion.
We know that to create and maintain a happy healthy organisation, we have to work hard to ensure inclusion isn`t just what we do but who we are.
People make Unite Students.
Employees, students, and neighbours all contribute to building environments where we can all thrive.
Room for Everyone
We`re proud to be an employer that
embraces individuality
, and we`re passionate about building inclusive teams. We focus on creating a collaborative culture where you can be you, where your voice is heard, and where you can truly belong. We take great pride in being rated Gold Investors in People and are constantly striving to provide the highest standard of learning and development opportunities and professional pathways for our people. Building a
home for success
, for both our employees and students, requires exceptional people with passion. Join us as we build better experiences for students that live with us.
