Assistant Quantity Surveyor

We're looking for an Assistant Quantity Surveyor to join our Natural Resources Team working on our Severn Trent framework. With the option to work from home you'll also need to visit our Severn Trent sites in the midlands, with enough sites that we can place you as close to home as possible.

Location: Working from home and reporting to sites in the midlands

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

Responsibilities

As a Assistant Quantity Surveyor, you'll be working within the Natural Resources team supporting the commercial team in managing the commercial aspects of schemes between £5m-£30m (avg. £10m) in value on capital project resilience and upgrades work to both clean and dirty water treatment plants. Sites stretch across the midlands from Birmingham down to Stroud and across to Northampton - so we hope to be able to place you on sites as close to home as possible.

Your Day To Day Will Include

• Assisting with the control of costs, maximising value, minimising future liabilities and maintaining the required standard of quality and safety
• Working within the project teams liaising with the Commercial Lead, Project Engineers, Procurement Coordinators, Planners, Site Team Leaders and Site Managers.
• Assisting in improving cost efficiency and creating an environment of out-performance.
• Assisting in the procurement of subcontractors in line with our commercial standards, ensuring best value for Kier and our client
• Assist in the accurate monthly and quarterly forecasting
  
  
  

What are we looking for?

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

• You hold a degree or equivalent in Quantity Surveying
• Experience working with complex civil projects with NEC contract experience.
  
  
  

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

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.

We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier