Senior Quantity Surveyor

Posted 1 day 8 hours ago by Kier Group

Permanent
Full Time
Other
Gloucestershire, Gloucester, United Kingdom, GL1 1UB
Job Description

A fantastic opportunity for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our Transportation team in Gloucester, working on the A417 missing link road project. You'll support the Commercial function within the Roadworks teams. A full UK driving licence is essential for this position.

With this role you can expect a competitive salary, car allowance, private health care plus benefits.

Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.

Location: Gloucester - some remote working available, with travel to the office required

Contract: Permanent Fulltime

Responsibilities

As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you'll be responsible for assisting with the control of costs, maximising value, minimising future liabilities and maintaining the required standard of quality and safety on a range of contracts.

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
  • Support the authorisation and submission of project variations. To authorise the placement of contracts, subcontracts, material, and plant orders
  • Negotiating with sub-contractor supply chain to achieve best value
  • Implement all of Kier Group's policies including those for SHE and risk management

What are we looking for?

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

  • Relevant degree or HNC qualifications
  • Experience within a similar role in the Construction/Highways Industry
  • Experience working on a major project
  • Experience working for a tier 1 Contractor
  • NEC experience

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 .

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

We look forward to seeing your application to join the