Senior Quantity Surveyor

Kier Group; East Malling; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Kier Group is seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join the Construction team based in Stansted, Essex. The role involves managing commercial resources to maximise gross margin, appointing contractors, and ensuring cash flow through accurate valuation of work and cost control.

You will lead a multidisciplinary team, support project variations and work closely with customers, contractors and subcontractors across education, health, defence and aviation sectors.

Qualifications

• Experience in a senior quantity surveying role.
• Highly organised with the ability to prioritise and meet deadlines.
• Excellent communication with multidisciplinary teams and clients.

Responsibilities

• Manage commercial resources to maximise project profitability.
• Appoint contractors and subcontractors and place orders for materials and plant.
• Measure and value work to support invoicing and payments.
• Lead and motivate the project's commercial staff to ensure collaboration.
• Assess and mitigate commercial and contractual risks across the project.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

IT skills

Education

Quantity Surveying degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

We're looking for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our Construction team based in Stansted, Essex.

Location: Stansted is the office location. The initial project is in Cheshunt
Hours: Full-time - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

This is an exciting opportunity to manage the commercial resources of an assigned project, maximising planned gross margin through effective contract placement and control. You'll play a key role in assessing and mitigating commercial risks, supporting project variations, and ensuring positive cash flow through quality control and valuation of work. Working within our Construction team, you'll help deliver major regional projects while building strong relationships with customers, contractors and subcontractors.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you'll be working within the Construction team, supporting them in delivering successful projects across the education, health, defence and aviation sectors. Your day to day will include:

• Managing commercial resources to maximise planned gross margin and project profitability
• Appointing contractors and subcontractors, and placing orders for materials and plant
• Measuring and valuing work to support customer invoicing and supplier payments
• Leading and motivating the project's commercial staff to ensure collaborative working relationships
• Assessing, controlling and mitigating commercial and contractual risks across the project

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Quantity Surveyor is great for you if:

• You have strong communication skills and experience working with multidisciplinary teams, clients and the wider supply chain
• You hold relevant qualifications in Quantity Surveying
• You have demonstrable experience within a similar role
• You're highly organised with the ability to prioritise and work to deadlines
• You're confident using IT packages including Microsoft Office and bespoke systems

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.

Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.