Key Responsibilities
Main Purpose of Job
• Supporting more senior staff to provide the full range of Quantity Surveying services, both pre
and post contract, including: budget estimates, cost plans, measurement, valuing works onsite,
cost reports and agreeing Final Accounts.
- To assist the technical team to deliver the following accountabilities and responsibilities:
o Ensure project work meets all relevant technical and professional standards on a consistent
basis.
o Deliver work to meet/exceed clients’ expectations in terms of brief, service innovation, overall
quality of work, value for money and delivery to planned timescales.
o Achieve a continuous improvement in the technical quality and innovation of the work
o produced.
o Ensure that work is performed in compliance with relevant Health and Safety Legislation.
o Promotion of the client pledge with customers to ensure timely payment of invoices.
o Ensure that the Business Management System and the Quality Management System is followed
so that professional Project Management and Quality Assurance plans and processes are
adopted and used by technical staff.
- Actively participate in training plans.
- Contribute to the maximisation of the value generated to Frankham by managing all projects to
achieve or exceed the gross margin targets.
- Putting into practice ideas to improve the performance of the team, the Profit Centre, the Division,
and the Group.
- Become fully conversant with Workbench.
Key Skills and Tasks
Technical
- To develop sufficient breadth of technical knowledge and experience to be able to assist with
effective technical delivery, compliance with the quality assurance of work and to be credible in
the eyes of the client and the team.
- Ensure project work meets all relevant technical and professional standards on a consistent basis.
- Be able to understand the technical and design requirements of projects and ensure compliance
with the relevant technical, health, safety, and environmental standards.
- To assist and input in the technical nature of the work.
- To ensure that full understanding of the brief and how agreed services are to be delivered.
- To be able to play an active role in the delivery of the technical work.
- Full understanding of how to use Workbench ensuring you fully account for the time you log.
- To be able to use Microsoft Word, Excel and Power Point to aid the management and
administration of the business and delivery of projects. To be able to apply yourself and learn how
to use new software appropriate to your role, such as CATO, CADMeasure and BIMMeasure.
- Develop an understanding of the Business Management System and the Quality Management
System and professional Project Management / Quality Assurance plans and processes.
- Develop a working knowledge of the Frankham Consultancy Group policies, procedures and
working practices.
- To be able to read and understand various Forms of Contract including JCT and NEC.
Management
- To actively contribute and co-operate with the management team.
Assistant Quantity Surveyor
