Senior Quantity Surveyor

We're seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our Transportation team in Twyford, Buckinghamshire. In this role, you'll take the lead on the commercial administration of utility diversion projects for HS2 across the C2 and C3 sectors, spanning from Aylesbury to Warwick. You'll be responsible for managing multiple projects simultaneously (typically 3–4), with values ranging from £0.1m to £3m.

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: Twyford, Buckinghamshire - travel to the office required with remote working available

Hours: Permanent Fulltime 45 hours per week – some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us

Salary: £55,200 - £73,200 per year + £5.9k annual car allowance + private healthcare + benefits

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Quantity Surveyor, you'll be responsible for maximising value, controlling costs, optimising profit, and managing risk, all while ensuring work is carried out safely and in line with ethical standards for the contracts you are working on.

Your day to day will include:

• Manage the commercial resources (finance) of the assigned project (or section) to maximise planned gross margin through the placement and control of contracts and subcontracts
• Provide commercial expertise to contracts, to include the production and submission of valuations, claims, budget monitoring, and contract/workstream performance data
• Assess, review and mitigate commercial and contractual risks and implement Kier Group's policies for risk management
• Maximise cash flow through the control, measurement (including quality) and valuation of work, and the invoicing of customers and payment of suppliers
• Manage and develop more junior members of the team

What are we looking for?

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

• A degree or professional qualification in Quantity Surveying
• Experience within a similar role in the Construction/Highways Industry
• Excellent Communication skills both written and verbally

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