Senior Quantity Surveyor

Kier Group; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job description

We're looking for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our Natural Resources Team. In this role, you'll provide commercial support to the project teams on our 7-year, cGBP1bn framework with Southern Water.

Location: Working from home and site/offices in Chatham, Kent or Falmer, East Sussex

Contract: Permanent, Full Time - flexible and part time hours may be available if desired, just let us know.

Responsibilities

The successful candidate will provide commercial support to the project teams, maintaining commercial information and ensuring compliance with contractual requirements. Liaising with the customer and third parties on commercial issues, you'll look at agreement of variations, claims, and any additional payments. The role will support the Commercial Manager and MQS delivering work for AMP 8 in clean and wastewater.

Your day-to-day will include:

• Management of a GBP40m package of works, including the management of a team of junior QS' mentoring and nurturing their development to assist with the following tasks where applicable.
• Providing commercial input including financial and contractual performance forecasts to the management team. Help ensure that business targets and KPI's are met/exceeded.
• Working closely with the wider Commercial Team to advise on commercial strategy to ensure successful conversion of opportunities and profitability of work undertaken.
• Assessing, reviewing, and mitigating commercial and contractual risks and implementing Kier Group's policies for risk management.
• Ensuring robust, accurate, and timely cost and value reporting at project level and preparing as well as updating monthly VCR's, cost and producing accurate forecasts and budget information.

What are we looking for? This Senior Quantity Surveyor is great for you if you have:

• A relevant Degree or equivalent in Quantity Surveying.
• Proven experience in a senior commercial capacity managing teams of significant size, preferably in the Water sector and/or within regulated utilities.
• Knowledge and experience of NEC forms of contract as well as current Construction Law.
• Experience in commercial management and procurement of subcontractors, including chairing regular meetings, measurement and control cycle, certificates, and accruals calculations.
• Experience in procurement and working alongside the procurement team to implement programme and project procurement strategy goals.

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

If you would like to explore more about the incredible growth and scale of our water business, dive into our diverse project portfolios, and uncover both current and future career opportunities.

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.

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.

We look forward to seeing your application!