Project Director (QS)

Benchmark Property is an Ibstock based, commercial project management and quantity surveying company delivering all types of developments including infrastructure, roads, industrial units, commercial buildings, schools, supermarkets, local centres, residential apartments and very occasionally residential housing all in and around Leicestershire. We have worked with most of our developer clients for many years and one of the interesting aspects of what we do, is that we do everything for them and often even before they know what they need.

We are typically engaged from project or site acquisition focusing at that stage on due diligence and viability including whole development cost estimates and development appraisals. From there we will gather up the consultant team (most of whom are partner consultants), guide the pre-construction process and design, produce the development programmes, move the development through planning, continue with cost estimates and financial reporting, we write the development specifications, we tender, place appointments and contracts and then manage the construction phase delivery including the project management and the quantity surveying.

Where our clients are externally funded, we will deal with the drawdowns; where there are end purchasers or tenants, we will deal with them directly and including the purchase agreements and agreements for leases and leases (with our client's solicitors). Most of our clients have us employ a principal contractor to carry out works on site and on occasion there may be multiple contractors such as where we procure demolition in advance and separate. Some of our other clients are developer / contractors and for them we offer a hybrid in-house quantity surveyor service, where, in addition to the bank drawdowns and monthly site meetings, we also procure their key designing subcontractor packages for them and keep ownership of their CVR reconciliation.

Being a small business, we can be very flexible in terms of remuneration, holidays and suchlike, the employment package for the right person will be mutually agreed and very satisfactory as we are not constrained like larger companies. There is also an excellent opportunity here for expanding your knowledge in areas which you are not already familiar with and given our aim is to find the person who will take this very successful and well thought of company forward and as part of our succession planning. If for example, your experience is mainly post contract to date then we would likely start you with managing the developments already on site and then progressively tutor you in the pre-construction activities and services that we provide until you are able to deliver them comfortably.

The right person should be approachable, knowledgeable in as much of what we do as your previous experience allows, able to cover both the management and surveying aspects of construction and development and have a desire to nurture and grow Benchmark Property and to take it forward with a safe pair of hands. Given the Managing Director has a target exit plan of five years, the aim here is to enable you to grow the business and become progressively able to take on the Managing Director role within that time.

The Project Manager vacancy will be to supplement our small team taking responsibility for selected projects.

Preference for RICS Qualified and also within a reasonable travel distance from LE67 6HP