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Managing Quantity Surveyor
February 24, 2023 | Comments Off on Managing Quantity Surveyor
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire
Business area: Kier Construction - Build Northern & Scotland
Contract: Full time, permanent, Monday to Friday - We're able to consider part time working, please state in your application.
Benefits: You can expect a competitive salary and an outstanding package that includes a company car or allowance, private healthcare, a matched pension scheme up to 7.5%, 26 days' annual leave + bank holidays (with the opportunity to buy or sell holiday) together with two employee Share Scheme options (Sharesave and Share Incentive Plan). To find out more about the rewards and benefits at Kier, click here.
Kier isn't just built on success. We're built on people. With our expertise and ambition to lead the way, there has never been a better time to be a part of our story.
As a Managing Quantity Surveyor, you will be overseeing the commercial resources and project teams on the assigned project, using your commercial expertise and wealth of knowledge you will maximise the cashflow and margin as well as assessing, reviewing and mitigating commercial and contractual risks, implementing Kier Group's policies for risk management.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage and develop the commercial team, ensuring workload is covered effectively and to ensure compliance and processes are being followed
- Ensure that commercial and administrative systems, budgets and cost control procedures are utilised
- Maximise cash flow through the control, measurement and valuation of work, and the invoicing of customers and payment of suppliers
- Produce/ compile accurate forecasts/ budget information and produce accurate reports to client, maintaining and improving client relations as well as ensuring full entitlement under the contract is achieved
- Ensure contract commercial deliverables and timescales are met
- Assess, review and mitigate commercial and contractual risks
- Responsible for ensuring works are valued, including any variation thereto, in accordance with the contract and analyses to determine the project True Value.
Working on education, commercial, leisure, healthcare, MOD and mixed-use projects valued up to £60m, we are looking for like for like industry experience.? We will also need you to be educated to degree level, or equivalent experience, have proven experience in a similar role and be an excellent communicator. The Managing Quantity Surveyor will need to have demonstrable experience working on 2 Stage Bids and be able to be involved from project inception to completion.
Who is Kier?
As a leading UK infrastructure services, construction and property group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK.
Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We take pride in bringing specialist knowledge, sector leading experience and fresh thinking to all that we do.
We are collaborative, trusted and focused, and we will empower you to achieve your career goals, and listen to your thoughts, ideas and challenges.
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.
Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.