Senior Quantity Surveyor
Meet the recruiter

Laura Shirley-Condren
Benefits
Life assurance
Private medical insurance
Additional holiday purchase opportunities
Matched pension scheme up to 7.5%
Enhanced family leave & policies
Share plan schemes
Free health & wellbeing services
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Green car scheme
Senior Quantity Surveyor
We're looking for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our regional Construction team based in Southampton.
Location: Southampton
Hours: Full Time - 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 play a key role in delivering commercial excellence on exciting multi-million pound projects in our Southern region. This is an opportunity to make a real impact, working alongside a supportive team where your expertise will help shape successful outcomes.
What will you be responsible for?
As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you'll be working within the Commercial team, supporting them in delivering financial and contractual excellence on major projects. Your day to day will include:
- Providing commercial input including financial and contractual performance forecasts to the management team, helping ensure that business targets and KPIs are exceeded
- Preparing monthly cost and value reports, reviewing results and considering trends with other contract team members
- Producing commercial reports and analysing trends with the wider team
- Managing physical measurement of works and reaching agreement with clients and subcontractors
- Overseeing certification and payment of subcontractor accounts, monitoring these against forecasts
What are we looking for?
This role of Senior Quantity Surveyor is great for you if:
- You hold a Full driving licence
- You're educated to Degree level, or have equivalent experience
- You have demonstrable experience within a similar role
- You have confident IT skills, particularly in MS Office and Excel
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.
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Location: Southampton
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Vacancy ID: 12330
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Background check: None
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Closing date: 15 Sep 2026
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Contract type: Permanent
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Working hours: Full Time
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Flexible working: Yes
Flexible working could include part time, job share, condensed hours, or flexible start/end times.
