Assistant Quantity Surveyor
Job Description
Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity? Join Persimmon Homes as Assistant Quantity Surveyor and step into a role where your success is celebrated, your growth supported, and your work truly matters.
Why Persimmon Homes?We're one of the UK's largest and most established housebuilders - FTSE 100 listed, with 29 regional offices and thousands of quality homes built every year.
At Persimmon, we don't just build homes - we build careers. When you join us as Assistant Quantity Surveyor, you'll benefit from:
- 5 housebuilder - Be part of a company that consistently delivers quality homes and outstanding customer satisfaction
- Life Cover & Contributory Pension
- Health Care
- Bonus
- Employee Benefits Platform - giving you access to high-street discounts, wellbeing support, and more
- Committed to diversity, inclusion, and empowering your development
We are now looking to recruit an Assistant Quantity Surveyor to join the Commercial Team. This role typically reports to the Chief Quantity Surveyor, Commercial Manager, Head of Commercial, Commercial Director.
The purpose of the role is to support all commercial and financial aspects of assigned projects and contracts to ensure completion is on time, within budget and to legal and quality assurance requirements and regulations.
The role will include:- Providing support on various studies and assist with the estimation of materials, time and labour costs, to ensure costs can be established and controlled and projects complete on time and within budget.
- Working cohesively with other departments across the Operating Company to ensure achievement of targets. Supporting the production of accurate and timely valuation reports and management information to enable the Commercial management team to make informed business decisions.
- Complying with the Group Health, Safety and Environment Policy to ensure health and safety standards are met.
- Experience within the house building industry is beneficial
- Fully conversant with Microsoft Package, including Excel and Word
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Relevant Apprenticeship/Undergraduate/Postgraduate or working towards equivalent qualifications