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Quantity Surveyor

April 24, 2023 | Comments Off on Quantity Surveyor

We're looking for a Quantity Surveyor to join our Highways team based in Wymondham. Kier Highways Solutions provides a one-stop-shop end to end works management and delivery from carriageway treatment design, product manufacture, installation, temporary traffic Management through to civils, patching & road markings. Kier Highways Solutions have national coverage for the supply and installation of carriageway surface dressing and carriageway patching and have national traffic management delivery capability as well as a team of CAD designers providing traffic management design solutions. KHS also manufacture and sell bituminous road emulsions as well as bespoke bituminous products and roofing products. Within this role, you can enjoy 26 days holiday plus bank holiday with the option to buy/sell, fantastic, matched pension scheme and even more.

Can you imagine a world without roads or bridges? Nor can we! Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Highways and make a difference. Connecting roads, connecting people.



Location: Wymondham, Norfolk

Contract: Permanent, full time, part time and flexible

Salary: £Competitive Salary + benefits + pension



Responsibilities

As Quantity Surveyor you'll be working within the commercial team, supporting colleagues and the operational teams ensuring correct and accurate recovery of value, improving cost reduction, while still maintaining safety standards, drive to increase profitability of the business unit and manage risk in a safe and ethical manner on the contracts you are working on.

Your day to day will include:

  • Providing commercial input, including financial and contractual performance forecasts to the management team, helping to ensure that business targets and KPI's are exceeded
  • Preparing monthly cost / value reports for the area, reviewing results and consideration of trends with other contract team members, assessing, reviewing and mitigating commercial and contractual risks
  • Dealing with client applications for payment, including variations and scope changes
  • Agreeing of certification and payment of subcontractor accounts and monitoring of such accounts against forecasts
  • Carrying out all commercial functions associated with our self-delivery activities for various contacts.
Who are we looking for?

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

  • Demonstrate qualifications in a relevant subject or field
  • Have a track record of presenting reports and findings to senior stakeholders
  • Show commercial awareness having worked in similar environments
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.

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: 19 May 2023

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

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