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Quantity Surveyor
June 10, 2022 | Comments Off on Quantity Surveyor
Maintaining the homes of the nation, making a daily difference. Be a Quantity Surveyor with Kier & carve a career you have control over.
Quantity Surveyor
Location: Flexible working available, where you will be based out of our Walsall office with home working available and some travel to other offices and sites in Walsall
Business Area: Kier Housing Maintenance - Walsall Housing Group
Contract & hours: Permanent, full time
Salary: competitive salary + car/allowance, and an outstanding rewards & benefits package
Kier Places are recruiting now for a Quantity Surveyor to join our commercial team in upholding and maintaining the commercial wellbeing of our Walsall Housing Group contract, which delivers essential housing repairs and maintenance, void services, planned works, compliance work, project work, and fire safety to our clients, and to reduce cost, increase value, drive revenue/profits and mitigate against risk in a safe and ethical manner.
Key Responsibilities
As a Quantity Surveyor, we will look to you to develop and manage all commercial aspects of projects including budgets and forecasts to ensure the governance and profitability of allocated contracts; develop, manage and extend commercial relationships with both new and existing clients and supply chain; maximise profitability of all allocated contracts and work packages; and provide accurate commercial reporting to allow effective management of your projects.
This includes projects for maintaining fire safety systems (i.e. fire doors, fire stopping & sprinkler systems), kitchen & bathroom replacements, and refurbishment of occupied properties.
What do we need from you?
As a commercially focused, self-motivated Quantity Surveyor, you'll have strong experience with Housing Maintenance contracts relating to Decent Homes and Social Housing - Fire Risk/Safety/FRA works exposure would be desirable; good demonstrable SOR & VCR/CVR knowledge; and relevant academic qualifications & Chartered membership.
Joining this fast paced, growing & expanding department, we need you to be a team player, to promote, follow and influence good project governance through the implementation of Kier policies and procedures.
Due to the nature of this role, you should have a full driving licence, and be comfortable travelling across the area to sites & offices.
Who are we?
Kier Housing Maintenance is a home-from-home for people with top housing maintenance and repairs skills. Thousands of homes across the country rely on us to maintain the place they live day-in-day-out. Join us to play a valued role in the success of the wider Kier Places team.
Find out more here about the great we offer our employees.
Delivering contracts. Creating communities. Developing careers. Join us today as a Quantity Surveyor.
Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with criminal convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's criminal record or the details of any offences disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.
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. Take a look here 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 InclusiveRecruitment@kier.co.uk.
Closing date: 9th July 2022
Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.
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