Senior Quantity Surveyor

Kier Group; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction firm is seeking an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor in Liverpool to take the commercial lead on a major highways project. This role emphasizes managing commercial aspects, maximizing margins, and requires strong communication and IT skills, particularly in Excel. Flexibility and a UK driving license are essential. The company offers a wide range of benefits and values diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Benefits

Wide variety of benefits

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar role focusing on highways, construction, or infrastructure.
• Ability to manage commercial aspects such as valuations and claims.
• Strong IT skills, particularly in MS Excel.

Responsibilities

• Manage commercial aspects to maximise gross margin.
• Provide commercial expertise to contracts and produce valued claims.
• Control and measure work to maximise cash flow and ensure invoicing.

Skills

Experience within Highways/Construction/Infrastructure

Excellent communication skills

Proficient in MS Office (Excel)

Job description

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We're looking for an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our Transportation team based in Liverpool and the Northwest.In this role, you'll take the commercial lead on a newly secured project focused on the replacement of a significant number of highway bridges for a key client. You'll also provide support across a range of existing legacy schemes within the business. Could this be you?

Flexibility in working hours and travel is essential, and a full UK driving licence is required 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: Liverpool / Northwest - site based with some remote working

Responsibilities

As Senior Quantity Surveyor, you'll manage the commercial aspects of packages of work within the project to maximise planned gross margin through the production of estimates, 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
• Assess, review and mitigate commercial and contractual risks and implement Kier Group's policies for risk management
• Maximise cash flow through the control, measurement (including quality) and valuation of work, and the invoicing of customers and payment of suppliers
• Promote Kier Group's values towards its customers in order to meet or exceed their expectations

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Quantity Surveyor is great if you:

• Experience within a similar role in Highways/Construction/Infrastructure
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Confident IT skills, proficient in the use of MS Office in particular Excel

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