Senior Quantity Surveyor

We're seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our Rail team in Birmingham. In this role, you'll be responsible for delivering the Quantity Surveying function on assigned projects, within the framework set by the Commercial Manager.

Can you imagine a world without transportation links via land, sea or air? Nor can we! Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Transportation and make a difference. Supporting the movement of people, goods and equipment.

Location: Birmingham- office based with some remote working

Hours: 42 hours per week

Salary: £60,000 - £70,000 + £6.7k annual car allowance + private healthcare + benefits

Responsibilities

As Senior Quantity Surveyor, working within the Quantity Surveying team, responsible for the execution of the Quantity Surveying function on allocated project(s), within limits defined by the Commercial Manager, in order to fulfil the requirements of Kier in maximising quality of service and profitability, meeting all relevant company procedures and group standards are met.

Your day to day will include:

• Maintaining strong working relationships and collaborating with the project team(s), clients and supply chain, delivering profitability whilst maintaining quality and customer satisfaction, leading on cost control and support junior members of the commercial team and wider project team on cost control and commercial issues
• Procurement of subcontract packages and key material orders to budgets and programme timescales, negotiating subcontracts with support of the Commercial Manager
• Minimising risk to Kier, management and administration of subcontract accounts through to final account, including payment and change through to final account, maintaining accurate and complete records in accordance with commercial standards
• Compiling and submitting interim payment applications, identifying, notifying and closing of change events in accordance with contractual timescales and in accordance with company commercial procedures
• Identifying and managing contractual and commercial risk and opportunities, inputting into internal and external monthly and quarterly forecasting and reporting

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Quantity Surveyor is great if you:

• BSc / MSc in Quantity Surveying
• Experience working with NEC contracts in a main contracting organisation
• Previous experience of working on multidisciplinary Rail projects

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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