Senior Quantity Surveyor

  • Job Reference: 2223
  • Date Posted: 29 March 2024
  • Location: Sheffield - Thorncliffe Park, Unit 5, Newton Business Centre, Thorncliffe Park Estate, Newton Chambe
  • Salary: On Application
  • Job Type: Permanent

Job Description

We're looking for a Senior 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 Severn Trent sites across the midlands.

Location: Working from home and reporting to the Sheffield office, with travel across the midlands

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

Responsibilities

As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you'll be working within the Natural Resources team supporting them in managing the commercial aspects of schemes between £5m-£20m in value on both clean and dirty water treatment plants. These projects are of a civils / MEICA nature, looking at upgrade and resilience works of these established sites.

Your day to day will include:

  • Managing the commercial resources (people and finance) of assigned projects to maximise planned gross margin through the placement and control of contracts and subcontracts
  • Assessing, reviewing, and mitigating commercial and contractual risks
  • Completing and supporting the authorisation and submission of project variations
  • Maximising cash flow through the control, measurement (including quality) and valuation of work, and the invoicing of customers and payment of suppliers

What are we looking for?

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

  • You hold a degree or equivalent in Quantity Surveying
  • Experience working with complex civil projects within the water industry.

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