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The Vacancy
Welcome to Wates Smartspace-a place where innovation meets impact. We're the go-to experts in fit-out, refurbishment, and maintenance services across the UK. From modern office spaces to cutting-edge retail environments, we bring spaces to life with creativity, sustainability, and flair. Here, you're not just part of a team; you're part of a movement that's reimagining places for people to thrive.
Right now we are looking for talented individuals to join our team as an Assistant Surveyor, to support our projects across the Northern region.
ABOUT THE ROLE
As our Assistant Quantity Surveyor, you'll be diving into the heart of our projects, supporting our wider Commercial Team to keep everything on track- both in budget and quality. If you're all about the details, love numbers, and are curious about how the built world works, this is the role for you.
You will be responsible for:
* Cost Estimation: Assist in preparing detailed cost estimates, budgets, and tender documents to ensure projects are financially viable.
* Subcontractor Management: Support the management of subcontractor accounts, including valuations, payments, and negotiations.
* Cost Monitoring: Track project costs, identifying any financial risks or opportunities to keep projects on budget.
* Reporting: Contribute to the preparation and analysis of cost reports and forecasts, ensuring accurate financial tracking.
* Site Visits: Participate in site visits to monitor progress and ensure compliance with contract requirements.
* Final Accounts: Assist in preparing final accounts, including cost reconciliation and settlement of any contractual claims.
* Collaboration: Work closely with project teams to ensure smooth project delivery, sharing insights and solutions as needed.
WHAT WE OFFER
* Competitive salary & profit share scheme
* Flexible working
* Car Allowance / Company Car *
* Travel covered to any of our sites*
* Extensive corporate benefits including, Private Medical, Pension 8% employers contribution, Health and Wellness programme, 26 days holidays + bank holidays and much more...
* One of the best learning and development programmes which is customizable to support your career progression goals. (c.7000 training sessions delivered year to date across the WATES Group)
* Industry leading family leave benefits to included 26 weeks fully paid maternity, 12 weeks fully paid paternity.
(*Subject to role.......)
To find out more about LIFE AT WATES please click on the following link https://www.wates.co.uk/careers/
We are always looking for a variety of new talent to join our teams, to help us grow and innovate as a business. Although you may not have all of the skills listed, many of them may be transferable to other roles within the WATES Group.
If you would like clarity on any of our vacancies or to discuss career opportunities in strict confidence, please contact our In-House Recruitment Team directly via recruitment@wates.co.uk and one of us will get in touch as soon as possible.
As a responsible and inclusive employer, we are committed to equality and are proud to have been recognised for this through a range of accolades including gold accreditation with Investors in People, we are also a Disability Confident employer. Being a family owned, business means we understand and value long term relationships.
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Work for Wates
Wates is one of the UK's leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies. Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.
We are driven by our purpose, 'reimagining places for people to thrive' and our three promises:
Thriving places - working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
Thriving planet - protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
Thriving people - creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in, and treated with care.
We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer. We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.
Company
We employ almost 4,000 people, working with a range of clients and partners from across the public and private sectors.
At Wates, we are driven by our purpose of working together to inspire better ways of creating the places, communities, and businesses of tomorrow. We need the right people from whatever background to help us make this happen and we are always looking for talented people from all walks of life to reflect the diverse communities where we work.
There’s a huge variety of job opportunities across our businesses, working on challenging and exciting projects for customers across both the public and the private sector. No two days are ever the same.
By joining Wates, you’ll be working for an organisation which invests in your continued professional development, regardless of which stage you might be at in your career.To discover what it is like to work for Wates, click below.
Working for Wates
There’s a huge variety of job opportunities across our businesses, working on challenging and exciting projects for customers across both the public and the private sector. No two days are ever the same.
By joining Wates, you’ll be working for an organisation which invests in your continued professional development, regardless of which stage you might be at in your career.
Our Guiding Framework
Our Guiding Framework shapes everything we do. It incorporates our driving purpose, it outlines the behaviours we work by, and the goals we are all working together to achieve. These are our values and vision.
As a family-owned business, we know it’s our people who make us successful. And just as in a family, everyone should feel welcome, included, and connected at Wates. We strive to be an organisation where everyone loves to work and to provide a safe space where everyone can be themselves.
Wates Together
Our Diversity and Inclusion plan is our long-term blueprint to create a business where everyone is welcomed, included and connected. We call this #WatesTogether.
Inclusion and Diversity
We are committed to building an organisation which is more representative of the communities we serve, offering equality of opportunities to diverse talent and an inclusive work environment where this talent thrives. We have set ourselves bold targets that will take time to achieve, but we are moving in the right direction and we are committed to achieving sustainable change.Find out more about our inclusion and diversity strategy
Social Value
Our approach to social value is rooted in our belief that how we do business, is as important as what we do. Our programmes and activities are focused on creating work and training opportunities, particularly for people furthest away from the workforce, such as care leavers, ex-offenders and ex Services personnel; building sustainable communities through employment, skills and awareness, and advocacy of trade with the social enterprise sector.
Environmental Sustainability
The Wates Group is committed to the long-term sustainability of the built environment and we’re working to eliminate carbon from our operations by 2025.
We’re committed to having a workforce that more accurately reflects society and providing an environment that positively encourages flexible working through working arrangements and benefits. Following the introduction of sector-leadingFamily Leave Policies in 2020, we have become one of the first construction companies to support flexible working across every part of our business, including for site-based employees. By 2025, we intend all our roles to be flexible, and we already advertise all new vacancies as flexible.Our six flexible working principles are designed to allow our colleagues and teams to develop working patterns that take into account individual preferences, allowing everyone to perform at their best.
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