Senior Quantity Surveyor

We're looking for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our Shared Services team based in Heigham, Norwich.

Location: Heigham, Norwich
Hours: 45 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 commercial and cost management performance of an embedded alliance programme within our Shared Services. You'll provide robust, independent cost leadership from planning through delivery and close-out, ensuring accurate forecasting, transparent reporting and strong commercial governance. This is a key leadership role where you'll embed commercial best practice across the alliance and promote collaborative, efficient and compliant cost management.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you'll be working within the Shared Services team, supporting them in delivering commercial excellence and cost assurance across alliance programmes. Your day to day will include:

• Providing strategic cost management leadership, ensuring accurate cost forecasting, reporting and financial assurance
• Acting as the principal commercial advisor to delivery teams and stakeholders, supporting sound commercial decisions
• Leading cost planning, estimating, change control and final account settlement in line with NEC contracts
• Monitoring and managing commercial risk, implementing effective mitigation strategies and ensuring early identification
• Leading and developing high-performing commercial teams, embedding a strong cost-conscious and collaborative culture

What are we looking for?

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

• You hold a degree in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Construction or Finance
• You have proven experience in a senior commercial, cost management or client-facing role within infrastructure or utilities
• You have knowledge of NEC contracts and construction/commercial law
• You're a confident leader with strong stakeholder management and advisory skills
• 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.