Senior Quantity Surveyor

Kier Construction; Penrith; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction company is seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join their Transportation team in Liverpool/Northwest. The role involves managing commercial aspects of highway bridge projects and requires flexibility in work hours and travel. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in similar roles and strong communication skills, alongside a valid driving license.

Benefits

Private healthcare

Annual car allowance

Various employee benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in Highways/Construction/Infrastructure roles.
• Strong communication and IT skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage commercial aspects of projects to maximize gross margin.
• Provide commercial expertise for contract management.
• Mitigate commercial and contractual risks.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Proficient in MS Office, particularly Excel

Job description

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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 #joinkier

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Construction

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