Senior Quantity Surveyor

We're looking for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our team based in Stepps / Moredun.

Location: Stepps / Moredun
Hours: 40 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you'll lead the day-to-day commercial management of an £85M retrofit project in Moredun, involving the upgrade of multiple high-rise towers to bring them up to energy efficiency and safety standards. Working from feasibility and market testing stage through delivery and completion, you'll oversee project commercial staff and ensure that Kier commercial targets are maintained whilst managing cost, risk, and value for money.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you'll be working within the team, supporting them in achieving commercial results for the business unit. Your day to day will include:

• Organising the division of projects into component work packages for procurement and assessing returns from sub-contractors
• Negotiating with the sub-contractor supply chain to achieve best value and maintaining strong relationships
• Ensuring that measures are accurate to reflect works completed and managing cash flow effectively
• Monitoring and measuring actual expenditure against budgeted project expenditure through CVR reports
• Ensuring financial positions of projects are accurately assessed, reported, and controlled with up-to-date commercial information

What are we looking for?

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

• You have a relevant academic qualification – Degree, HND or equivalent in Quantity Surveying
• You have demonstrable experience in Senior Quantity Surveying positions within the construction main contracting environment
• You possess strong knowledge of NEC and JCT conditions and procurement and sub-contractor management
• You have experience working in small works and residential programmes delivering high volume activity
• You hold a Full driving licence

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. 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.