Project Quantity Surveyor

Company Description

Avidity Hotels is a privately owned and operated Hotel development and management company (https://www.avidityhotels.com/). Avidity currently own and operate three hotels across the UK and have two consented projects which we are looking to build out in 2027 and 2028. One project in Edinburgh and one project in Milton Keynes. We also have a further project we are looking to build out in 2028/29, also located in Edinburgh. We continue to actively look for other opportunities.

At Avidity Hotels, we deliver our projects in house. By this we mean that we sit in the role of main contractor, managing the tender process, project timeline, delivery and overall management of our projects. We do this to control the costs management and procurement process of our projects and as such ensure our projects budget are utilised to their best.

Role Description

Avidity Hotels are looking for a driven and experienced Quantity Surveyor who has a solid knowledge base in the contracting sector and has ideally worked across the delivery of hotel projects, although broader sector experience will be considered.

Such a person will be expected to be hands on in supporting our Senior Project Team, who together with being responsible for the main delivery of our projects. We expect the person who joins us to be able to manage our tender and procurement processes and consistently work closely with our project team to manage the overall project budget on a week to week, month to month basis, ensuring we are on time and on track to deliver our projects.

As such we expect the right person to have a level of good self drive an autonomy with good reporting backgrounds to be able to feed directly back to our Senior Project Team and our Ownership Team

The role is a full-time / project focused role based in Edinburgh with a hybrid working arrangement, combining on-site presence with some work from home.

Qualifications

• Preparing tender and contract documents for each project
• Proactively estimating quantities, costs and time scales for material and labour on site
• Identifying and weighing up the commercial risks for each project
• Assigning works and packages to subcontractors and awarding these via legally binding contracts with defined scope
• Regularly valuing completed works undertaken by those subcontractors, managing overall budgets and leasing with accounts to oversee payments
• Ensuring projects meet the required legal and quality standards as set by British Building Regulations and other such standards
• Advising on the maintenance costs of specific items as and when specified and ordered
• Liaising with Senior Project Manager and daily site team to identify their needs and forecast ahead
• Submitting high level weekly updates to senior ownership team with a more formal monthly budget report to highlight progress and cost to date
• Procuring FF&E, site materials and other such items direct and managing the order form and delivery process to ensure all arrives on schedule

Competitive salary with bonus structure available, commensurate with this role and responsibilities.