Senior Quantity Surveyor

October 4, 2022 | Comments Off on Senior Quantity Surveyor

We're looking for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our Highways team based in Shrewsbury. Within this role, you can enjoy a fantastic, matched pension scheme, 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family, a competitive annual holiday entitlement, with opportunities to buy/sell leave and even more.

Location: Shrewsbury, Shropshire

Contract: Full time

Responsibilities

As Senior Quantity Surveyor you'll be working within the quantity surveying team, supporting them in, carrying out all aspects of commercial control on the contract, including value engineering, estimating, negotiating prices, identifying and agreeing the value of additional works, interim valuations, final accounts and the production/management of contractual documentation.

Your day to day will include:

  • Proactively inputting to the development of the business team aiding senior management and project teams in the delivery of business objectives and goals, and commercial management of schemes during the construction phase and final account reconciliation
  • Agreeing prices with Shropshire Council, analysing scheme costs and providing commercial guidance and assistance
  • Working closely with operations and design teams ensuring details are accurate and sufficient whilst helping to achieve project delivery forecasts
Who are we looking for?

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

  • Show an industry specific degree or qualification
  • Analyse scheme financial data
  • Demonstrate good leadership and interpersonal skills
We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! So even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat. We want to hear from candidates from all backgrounds and experiences, and we especially encourage those from underrepresented communities to get in touch with us.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at to discuss and arrange these.

Benefits 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. Some of our favourites include:

  • New and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more
  • Share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our sharesave and share incentive plans
  • Kier's Green Car Scheme
  • A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands
And so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website: kier.co.uk/careers/rewards-benefits


Who is Kier?

We're made up of six business units, Group Functions, Construction, Highways, Infrastructure, Utilities and Property, and as a group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK. Take a look at our sustainability objectives: kier.co.uk/sustainability

At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.

Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.

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 (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.

You can see more about our D&I action plan here: kier.co.uk/media/6668/di-roadmap-2021.pdf


Closing date: 1st November 2022

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


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