Assistant Quantity Surveyor

✨ Assistant Quantity Surveyor ✨
📍 Central Bedfordshire
🏘️ Social Housing Repairs & Maintenance

🔹 Looking to grow your QS career in social housing?
We're recruiting an Assistant Quantity Surveyor to support the commercial management of responsive repairs and maintenance contracts across Central Bedfordshire. This is a great opportunity to work alongside an experienced surveyor team and play a key role in delivering compliant, cost‑effective services.

🛠️ The Role

You'll assist with the measurement, pricing, and valuation of works using NHF Schedule of Rates, ensuring client contract compliance and strong commercial performance across social housing maintenance contracts.

✅ Key Responsibilities

📐 NHF SOR Application

• Accurately measure completed repairs and maintenance works
• Apply the correct NHF SOR codes to maximise revenue and ensure compliance

💷 Valuations & Variations

• Support interim and final monthly valuations for client approval
• Process variations and additional works in line with contract requirements

🔧 Subcontractor Management

• Assist with managing subcontractors
• Review payment applications against site progress and NHF SOR rates

📊 Performance Monitoring

• Track productivity, labour costs, and material usage
• Help ensure jobs are profitable and appropriately resourced

📈 Reporting & Commercial Support

• Support CVR reports, forecasting, and commercial analysis
• Assist the senior commercial team with accurate financial reporting

🎯 What We're Looking For

👷 Experience

• Previous experience in a Quantity Surveying role
• Social housing or maintenance experience preferred

📚 SOR Knowledge

• Strong working knowledge of NHF SOR (v7, v8, or similar)

💻 Technical Skills

• Confident user of Microsoft Excel

🌟 Personal Attributes

• High attention to detail
• Proactive, organised approach
• Strong communication and teamwork skills

🚀 Why Join?
✅ Excellent career development opportunities
✅ Hands-on exposure to social housing contracts
✅ Supportive commercial team environment
✅ Central Bedfordshire location with varied projects

📩 Interested?
Apply now or get in touch to find out more about this opportunity!

Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant's criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks. 

To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting 

Our commitments:  

WPS is proud to be an employer where anyone can thrive, and we welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds.  We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every requirement, as we value transferable skills and assess all applications fairly.

We don't discriminate based on a criminal record; all applications are reviewed on an individual basis against the requirements of the role. Some roles may require additional checks, due to the nature of the work.  As a Disability Confident Leader, we offer an interview to applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role and opt in to the Disability Confident scheme.  Reasonable adjustments are available, please contact us at wpsrecruitment@wates.co.uk