We're looking for a Quantity Surveyor to join our Kier Design team. In this role you'll manage all aspects of pre-contract and post-contract commercial activities across Kier Design. Within this role, you can enjoy competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy leave, a fantastic, matched pension scheme, a share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans and even more
Location: Nationwide – remote working with travel to the offices required
Hours: 40 hours per week, some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us
Salary: £40,000 - £50,000 per annum + private healthcare + £5,000 annual car allowance + benefits
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.
What will you be responsible for?
As a Quantity Surveyor, you'll be working within the Commercial team, supporting the Senior Quantity Surveyor in managing all aspects of pre-contract and post-contract commercial activities across Kier Design. Working independently with other Quantity Surveyor's who are embedded on contract delivering projects, achieving cost savings and providing insightful reporting to Senior Management. You'll also be ensuring commercial controls are in place for all work undertaken.
Your Day To Day Will Include
- Overseeing the safe entry into contracts by following Kier's governance protocols and processes (PLM), which include, but are not limited to: permission to proceed – notification (PTPN), permission to proceed – approval (PTPA), SOTC, SAM, delegated authorities, and the review of main contract documents
- Managing procurement across the whole of Kier Design
- Reviewing contract conditions / amendments and providing design teams with guidance on processes / onerous condition
- Forecasting and reporting in accordance with contractual requirements and the commercial standards
- Controlling and managing end-of-life (EOL) project costs, ensuring accurate forecasting and compliance with contractual and regulatory obligations are taking place by the operational teams.
What are we looking for?
This role of Quantity Surveyor, is great for you if:
- You have experience within a similar role in Construction / term service contracts
- Can demonstrate contractual awareness – general principles and NEC contracts
- Hold a good understanding of risk management principles
- Are able to clearly communicate relevant detail
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
