Company: Rowfield Commercial  

Role:  Quantity Surveyor

Basic Salary:  PAYE

Location:  UK South

Reports to: Associate Director

Rowfield Ltd is a firm of Chartered Quantity Surveyors and Project Managers that specialise in providing commercial management, dispute resolution and project support services to the construction industry. We are headquartered in Cardiff, with offices in London and provide our services to clients throughout the UK.   

Our commercial services are designed to reduce risk and increase profitability on projects. We help to realise additional value through our in-depth understanding of the opportunities that each individual construction contract presents. We also provide project support services which specialise in the New Engineering Contract (NEC), Engineer and Construct Contract (ECC). We provide NEC ECC expert Project Managers and Quantity Surveyors and have a particular specialism in the electricity transmission industry.  

We also have a team of dual-qualified Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) consultants, all elected Members (or Fellows) of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the Charted Institute of Arbitrators. This allows us to deal with every aspect of the dispute resolution process, from assisting in negotiations to managing more formal processes such as mediation, adjudication and arbitration. We can act as your advocate or provide testimony in adjudication, arbitration or litigation proceedings as an independent expert witness. 

Rowfield is a Corporate Member of the Association of Project Managers and regulated by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. 

General Accountability:  

Reporting to the Associate Director, the Quantity Surveyor will support the business in serving its client organisations and will be competent in managing all commercial aspects of the project lifecycle.  The successful candidate should demonstrate the ability to manage stakeholders of all levels, have a track record of meeting time and budgetary requirements.  

Rowfield it strongly committed to the development of its people. Staff will be supported to progress to a level consistent with their own aspiration, by both inhouse mentoring and approved external academic and professional courses. 

Primary Responsibilities:  

• Support the effective project delivery to budget, time and quality specific to client’s goals and objectives 
• Responsible for producing commercial reports and on-going status of the project’s financial health 
• Manage cost and value reporting, project change (compensation events), risk/early warning registers, defects and other commercial matters as they arise 
• Administer NEC 3/4 contracts competently with the support of your line manger 
• Maintain positive working relationships with the client and all stakeholders 
• Identify commercial risks and ensure operational impacts are minimised   

Education and Experience:

• Minimum of B.S. degree in Quantity Surveying or related subject    
• Member of RICS, or working towards that (with which you will be supported by Rowfield) 
• 5+ years of Quantity Surveying experience  
• Strong track record of NEC 3/4 contract management 
• Strong track record of successfully managing commercial aspects of projects 
• Experience in projects £1M to £30M plus 

Package: 

• Competitive Salary 
• Pension
• Bonus
• Development support
• Private health, dental and optical
• Employee benefits platform

Apply here and a member of the team will be in touch.