Quantity Surveyor

Working 2 days per week from one of our offices in Newcastle or Durham with Hybrid and Flexible working

Travel on average 1 day per month

Permanent, full time (37.5 hours per week)

Salary circa £44, 000 per annum, plus brilliant benefits including health cash plan!

Home, a place where you belong

Are you an experienced Quantity Surveyor ready to work with purpose and flexibility? Whether it’s a site visit to assess costs, fine-tuning budgets from home, or catching up with the team at one of our offices, this role offers variety and autonomy. You’ll join our Commercial Team in Repairs and Maintenance, where your expertise will help us deliver cost-effective, high-quality repairs for our customers.

And it doesn’t stop there—we’ll invest in your professional development, including funding your RICS accreditation, so you can grow and thrive in your career while making a real impact.

What you’ll do

• Collaborate with trades, managers, subcontractors, and suppliers to deliver high-quality, cost-effective repairs and maintenance.
• Visit sites to measure and value works, negotiate costs, and ensure budgets stay on track.
• Analyse contractor performance, manage relationships, and uphold commercial excellence.
• Use work-order systems to ensure accurate scheduling and data recording.
• Monitor budgets and ensure financial coding is spot-on every month.
• Act as a proactive partner, ensuring customer needs are central to everything we do.

Why choose us?

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers' lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for a top 10 Great Place to Work Employer! With hybrid working, flexible hours close to full-time, and the autonomy to manage your diary, you can achieve balance while making a real impact. Plus, we’ll support your professional development, including funding for RICS accreditation, so you can thrive in your career.

What you’ll bring

• A Quantity Surveying qualification and a sharp commercial mind.
• Knowledge of procurement rules, housing repairs, and relevant legislation.
• Excellent organisation, time management, and communication skills to work effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders.
• Confidence to challenge and support colleagues and contractors in delivering value.
• A current driving licence and access to a vehicle (we’ll cover mileage costs).
• Enthusiasm for learning—we’ll support your RICS accreditation and professional growth.

Our team

Looking for a job where you really belong? Where you can be, well you! Bring your uniqueness, brilliant skills and awesome experience to deliver amazing things for our customers. You’ll join our team, who come from different walks of life and are here to support you as you make yourself at Home.

Job details

• Monday to Friday, flexible working hours. We’re also open to discussing a work pattern with you that is close to full time.
• You’ll manage your own diary.
• This is a hybrid role based from one of our offices Newcastle or Durham (2 days per week), from home
• You’ll initially look after colleagues and stakeholders in the south and will ravel to meet with them on average 1 day per month.

Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role. This remains under regular review.

A place where you belong

Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!

What’s in it for you?

• 34 days leave (includes bank hols and a “me day” to use whenever you fancy) increasing to 39, the option to buy 5 more, and time off for volunteering too!
• Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.
• Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
• Colleagues really matters to us, that’s why we’re the 10^th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them.
• We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
• Generous pension scheme with life insurance of 3x salary.
• Explore our benefits in detail on our website.

Find out more

Click APPLY NOW to see our Quantity Surveyor Job Description, find out about us and for help to apply. Sometimes we close a job early, so don’t delay or you might miss out. Finally, do let us know if there’s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process by making reasonable adjustments at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk