Lead Quantity Surveyor and Mentor

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About Us

As a Chartered Surveying Practice established in 1998, we have spent the last 26 years building a wealth of experience across diverse market conditions and challenging projects. This journey has taught us valuable lessons that have shaped our expertise.

At Solomons, we utilise NEC4 to fuel collaboration and achieve successful project outcomes. We have built a strong reputation by supporting clients and delivery partners across major power, energy, infrastructure, construction, engineering, and utilities projects, with project values ranging from £250k to £1.5bn.

Throughout these years, we have consistently invested in our people, focusing on professional development, wellbeing support, and career coaching, ensuring that our team is equipped to for our ever-evolving industry.

The Role

We are seeking a passionate and accomplished Chartered Senior Quantity Surveyor, to support the next generation of QSs to successfully navigate our newly developed QS Training pathway.

This role will require the highest levels of professional competence, in both commercial and contractual elements, alongside the patience and energy required to develop a cohort of 6 QS conversion candidates. Supporting and advising them in their career progression and their project roles, ensuring effective client care and project portfolio delivery.

You will act as trainer, coach and mentor to the next generation of professionals, who are set to join our growing business at the start of 2025.

Helping them to hone their skills in the new world of QSing, and to understand fully elements of construction technology, contract compliance, commercial management. Crucially, you will help hone their skills to optimise effective teamworking, collaboration and communication, to fully support our client project and framework portfolio.

Our goal is to create a high performing QS team, capable of attaining the highest levels of professional competence, and able to act independently in client project roles, to ensure successful project outcomes on behalf of our clients.

Why Apply?

If you are looking for a new and very different challenge, and would like to inspire the next generation of Quantity Surveyors just entering the profession. If you feel passionate about in person people development. If you believe there is a need to create practical, supportive learning cultures, comprised of mentoring, work shadowing opportunities and 'learning in the field'. And, if you are tired of seeing online learning tools stripping away the value of in person, and on the job learning, then this could be just the role for you!

You will manage the team from onboarding, through to successful attainment of their Post Graduate QS qualification, whilst ensuring the highest levels of client service and efficacy are maintained throughout their training journey.

Our cohort will come from a diverse range of backgrounds and experience, and as such you will need to be adaptable and approachable in your training and development strategies, to get the very best from every member the team, and to create an effective shared learning culture.

You will be supported by the People & Performance Team, and the Board of Directors, to ensure effective and comprehensive training plans and programmes are in place, which will ensure a rigorous and agile approach to personal professional development is maintained throughout the programme pathway - it will be our joint mission to get the very best from the cohort, and to ensure rapid and effective personal professional development.

Requirements

• You should hold as a minimum MRICS accreditation or higher (similar or equivalent designations will be considered) in order to support candidates through to chartership
• You will ideally hold supplementary qualifications or accreditations in contract law and/or professional practice
• You should have a demonstrable track record in people management and development
• A working knowledge of the NEC4 suite of contracts is required in order to provide practical insight and support the team in their client roles
• You will have an engaging, inspiring and inclusive approach to team management and leadership, and strive for the highest professional standards at all times

Rewards and Benefits Include

Salary - Excellent Salary Package
Core benefits - Flexible benefits including company health cash-plan, life and health cover. Other benefits also apply, including use of staff holiday lodge in the Lake District for up to one week per year.
Flexible benefits - Including holiday buy/sell, EV Scheme, matching contributory pension up to 8% of salary
Bonus Scheme - Company bonus scheme of up to 10% of salary, depending on company and personal performance
Holidays - 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays

Requirements

If you would like to inspire the next generation of Quantity Surveying professionals, and feel passionate about people development. If you would like to support the next generation of professionals to become the best they can be, then we would like to talk to you.

Get in touch with our People & Performance Team to discuss this role, your ideas and your key skills and take the first step to working with us to create a learning legacy for the future...

Dawn Powell on 07864 397292
Victoria Clements on 07825 959257