Senior Quantity Surveyor

We're looking for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our Regional Construction team based in Stepps, Scotland.

Location: Stepps, Scotland
Hours: Monday to Friday - 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.

Our Regional Construction unit in Scotland delivers an impressive range of projects, with a strong presence in education, heritage, healthcare, leisure, and government sectors. As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you'll play a vital role in ensuring the commercial success of projects from tender through to completion, working collaboratively with teams to provide expert commercial guidance and support.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you'll be working within the Regional Construction team, supporting them in delivering commercially successful projects. Your day to day will include:

• Advising on financial feasibility of projects at early stages and contributing to tenders through cost planning and procurement
• Assessing returns from sub-contractors, negotiating to achieve best value, and awarding work packages
• Taking commercial lead on live projects, ensuring effective cashflow management and contract compliance
• Managing projects under NEC/JCT contracts, recognising and mitigating risks while realising commercial opportunities
• Monitoring actual expenditure against budgets and creating detailed commercial reports for senior stakeholders

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 working on large two-stage bids
• You possess expert knowledge of NEC and JCT contract conditions
• You have proven experience acting as commercial lead on high value construction projects
• 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