Quantity Surveyor

Kier Construction; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Kier Construction is seeking a Quantity Surveyor to join its Transportation team based in Manchester/Penrith. The role involves managing costs and maximizing value on various contracts while ensuring quality and safety. Candidates should have a degree in Quantity Surveying and experience in the construction sector.

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar role in the Construction/Highways industry.
• Experience with NEC contracts.

Responsibilities

• Manage commercial resources of the project to maximise gross margin.
• Provide commercial expertise, valuations, claims, and budget monitoring.
• Procurement and management of sub-contract orders.

Skills

Communication skills

Flexibility

Education

Degree in Quantity Surveying

Job description

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We're looking for a Quantity Surveyor to join our Transportation team based in Manchester/Penrith to assist with the control of costs, maximising value, minimising future liabilities and maintaining the required standard of quality and safety on a range of contracts. You must be flexible in hours of work and travel. A driving licence is an essential requirement for this role.

Can you imagine a world without transportation links via land, sea or air? Nor can we! Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Transportation and make a difference. Supporting the movement of people, goods and equipment.

Location: Manchester/Penrith - site based with remote working

Contract: Permanent Fulltime

Salary: £40,000 - £50,000 + £5k car allowance + benefits

Responsibilities

As Quantity Surveyor, you'll manage the commercial resources (finance) of the assigned project (or section) to maximise planned gross margin through the placement and control of contracts and subcontracts

Your Day To Day Will Include

• Provide commercial expertise to contracts, to include the production and submission of valuations, claims, budget monitoring, and contract/workstream performance data
• Procurement and management of Sub-Contract order in line with Kier Commercial Standards
• Maximise cash flow through the control, measurement (including quality) and valuation of work, and the invoicing of customers and payment of suppliers
• Implement all of Kier Groups policies including those for SHE and risk management
• Promote Kier Group's values towards its customers in order to meet or exceed their expectations
  
  

What are we looking for?

This Role Of Quantity Surveyor Is Great If You

• Experience within a similar role in the Construction/Highways industry
• Experience with NEC contracts
• Excellent Communication skills both written and verbal
• A degree or professional qualification in Quantity Surveying
  
  

Rewards And Benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Construction

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