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Quantity Surveyor

July 27, 2022 | Comments Off on Quantity Surveyor

Job Title: Quantity Surveyor
Location: Basingstoke (Flexible/Agile Working Option is available with this position)
Business Area: Telecoms
Salary: £40 - £45k doe +benefits

Join Kier, connect to your future.

We are Kier, one of the UK's leading construction and infrastructure services, working on projects such as BT and Virgin Media. As a Quantity Surveyor your skills and expertise will be utilised to positively impact people, communities, and the environment for generations.????

Kier Utilities keep our telecoms clients' customers connected to superfast broadband, digital TV and the latest full-fibre gigabit internet services through the design and construction of new fibre networks as well as the maintenance of existing HFC networks.

With a nationwide 5G fibre build planned over the next 10-15 years, it's a great time to work in Telecoms. Working for Kier you'll be at the forefront of this growing market, providing you with opportunity to expand your skills and achieve your career ambitions within a dynamic and passionate team.

Your role as Quantity Surveyor

Reporting into the Managing Quantity Surveyor/Senior Quantity Surveyor, as Quantity Surveyor you will be responsible for the back-office support function. Evaluation, negotiation, management, and mitigation of commercial and contractual risks for the contracts within the Commercial team of our Telecoms division.

Key Responsibilities as a Quantity Surveyor

  • Providing commercial input, advice on commercial opportunities and savings to the management and project teams to maximize commercial benefit of all contracts
  • Managing and securing payment for contract variations, bonus target payments and contractual claims ensuring that timely and appropriate contract notices and correspondence are issued
  • Project risk management and review of contract documentation
  • Post contract commercial and contractual correspondence for individual contracts
  • Ensuring that commercial, bonus schemes and administrative systems, budgets and cost control procedures are in place and operated correctly across all contract operations
  • Ensure all managers, key interface areas within the business are briefed and have sufficient support to monitor and react to budget variances
  • Planning, forecasting, submission, and agreement of applications and subsequently reporting contract commercial performance
  • Managing commercial aspects of sub-contract accounts from procurement to interim and final account agreement.
  • Drafting of sub-contractor, major supply and professional services agreements and settling final accounts to agreed sign-off levels
To be a successful Quantity Surveyor we need from you:

  • Commercially aware with knowledge in procurement
  • Understanding and experience of working with internal/external systems
  • Customer aware and innovative, capable of maximising contract benefits for mutual and longer-term benefit
  • Ability to identify and resolve problems at an early stage
  • Able to lead, set up and manage site-based commercial and reporting systems
  • A hands-on approach with proven ability to run own jobs
  • Accurate with good attention to detail and highly organised
  • A competent negotiator, skilled communicator
  • IT literate and experience in working with MS office Applications and Cost Control systems
  • Valid UK driving license
What we can offer you:

At Kier, we're proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.

  • New and enhanced family friendly policies with 8 weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave and important guidance on the menopause and the support we can offer
  • Competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave
  • Fantastic, matched pension scheme
  • Share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans
  • 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family
  • Kier's Green Car Scheme
  • Huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands
  • Many many more! Find out more at
Kier is committed to creating supportive and inclusive opportunities for all our applicants and employees. We appreciate applicants from all backgrounds, and we specifically encourage those from underrepresented communities to apply. Look to learn more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion. If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please let us know so we can discuss and arrange these by emailing .

Closing Date 28th August 2022

Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.

Recruitment agencies - we are unable to accept unsolicited CVs and communications from external recruiters. The recruitment team will engage with agencies who have signed up to our PSL should we require assistance. For further information, visit our .
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