Quantity Surveyor

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 + £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 and wider commercial function, taking ownership of commercial processes, subcontractor procurement / management, and project financial governance.

Your day to day will include:

• Monthly project reviews with Project Leads to monitor financial performance, risk, opportunity and change management, preparing and submitting accurate client applications for payment
• Managing project change control — collaborating with the wider team, to agree variations and validate associated costs, forecasting and reporting in line with the commercial standards
• Leading subcontractor procurement, including tendering, scope definition, analysis and appointment, managing subcontractor performance, change, and payment assessments throughout the project lifecycle
• Reviewing client contracts, amendments and commercial terms, advising design teams on obligations and risks, ensuring safe entry into contracts in line with Kier governance (PTPN, PTPA, SOTC, SAM, Delegated Authorities)
• Monitoring utilisation and non‑billable hours, supporting reductions in overhead where possible

What are we looking for?

This role of Quantity Surveyor, is great for you if:

• You have proven experience as a Quantity Surveyor within construction, consultancy, design, or term‑service environments working with NEC contracts, demonstrable experience in subcontractor procurement and subcontractor management
• Experience in contract review, including identifying risk, constraints and onerous terms, practical knowledge of client application processes, project forecasting and commercial reporting
• Working knowledge of change control, including evaluating variations, assessing costs and managing risk/opportunity, strong understanding of commercial governance frameworks and compliance processes

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

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