JN Bentley

My role as a quantity surveyor involves cost control and change management in the civil engineering industry.

- Applications for Payment - Certifying Payments - Assessing Forecasts and current commercial positions - Reviewing forecasted opportunities and Risks - Assessing future workload - Commercial Valuation - Communicating daily with the Contract Manager a...

Going out to sites and completing health and safety audits. ensuring everyone is compliant with the operational safety standards

Managing costs for construction projects and dealing with procurement, forecasts and accounts.

My Role is great, it involves paying, managing and forecasting all costs of a construction project. This includes plant, materials, staff and subcontracts. It also gives me a good opportunity to understand construction law at a much higher standard.

I liaise with the Client and subcontractors while communicating with site team to ensure works are completed. I make payments and issue orders. I manage risk on the project and the contractual requirements. I manage costs and update/maintain cashflow fore...

My role as an apprentice quantity surveyor on a day-to-day basis involves managing the commercial side of construction project (specifically the construction of sewage treatment works). Internally I interact with my colleague who I work alongside with who...

My working day starts at 7 in the morning. The morning briefing takes place, where I learn what is going on for site on that day, and where I can learn what I need to do on that day. This involves setting out, surveys and setting levels.

I am required to set out all assets required to be inputted which providing the correct levels and making sure everything is to the drawing

Setting out, material ordering, quality checking, completing inspections on materials and phases of work

Very fast Paced at the beginning. I was put onto a site that was nearing deadline Where there as a lot going on and not enough time for the people I was shadowing to properly show me what to do. However it gave me the opportunity to quickly learn the basi...

I am a QS and control commercial activities on clean water schemes

My role as a Quantity Surveyor changes each day. I manage forecasts, payments, value and change reporting under the NEC4 suite of contracts.

Managing the contractual and commercial side of projects. This includes forecasting for the month, paying subcontractors and general commercial admin.

Day-to-day site duties include: setting out, ordering low cost materials, creating as-builts, supervising operatives, setting heights on laser level, using AutoCAD, attending site management meetings etc.

Working with fellow quantity surveyors on my projects and liaising with subcontractors to ensure they are paid on time

Management of project costs, schedules and sub-contractors. I work in a hybrid model - home, office and site based on needs. I am responsible for payments, forecasting and managing the budget of a project.

Managing all commercial aspects of design jobs all the way through to completion on site.

I am an assistant quantity surveyor - I work within a team, working within procurement, cost forecasting, programme control, working with our Client