Senior Quantity Surveyor

Kier Group; Liverpool City Region; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Kier Group is seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor for the Transportation team in Liverpool. This role involves managing commercial contracts for highway bridge projects and requires strong expertise in risk management and communication. Successful candidates will possess experience in Highways or Construction and proficiency in MS Office. The position comes with a competitive salary range, annual car allowance, and benefits.

Benefits

Annual car allowance

Private healthcare

Tailored benefits

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Manage the commercial aspects of projects to maximise gross margin.
• Produce and submit valuations, claims, and monitor budgets.
• Assess and manage commercial and contractual risks.

Skills

Communication

Commercial Expertise

Risk Management

Negotiation

MS Office

Job description

We're looking for an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our Transportation team in Liverpool/Northwest. You'll be working on a newly secured project to replace a substantial number of highway bridges in the region for a key client, while also providing support across several legacy schemes within the business. 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: Liverpool / Northwest - site based with some remote working

Contract: Permanent Fulltime

Salary: 55,000 - 70,000 + 6.7k annual car allowance + private healthcare + benefits

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