Quantity Surveyor

July 9, 2023 | Comments Off on Quantity Surveyor

We have an excellent opportunity for a Quantity Surveyor to join our commercial team based in Newcastle. Within this role, you can enjoy you can enjoy remote working, flexible hours and the opportunity to work on a wide range of projects of all sizes and complexities and even more.

Location: Newcastle - working between site, office and home

Contract: Permanent, full time, Monday to Friday

Responsibilities

Our North East business is thriving with Kier Construction delivering high value new build projects across education, healthcare, higher education, MOD and MOJ sectors.

As a Quantity Surveyor you'll be working within the Commercial team in supporting them in building projects that support and develop the local communities, you will be involved in the commercial Management of projects from the main contracting perspective, ensuring that commercial risks and opportunities are managed effectively to ensure profitability on key projects that can range in value from £10M - £80M

Your day to day will include:

  • Assess, review and mitigate commercial and contractual risks and implement Kier Groups policies for risk management
  • Prepare and present monthly cost reports, value works executed by Sub-Contractors and certify interim and final payments.
  • Assist the team with commercial and contractual expertise - NEC / JCT Conditions
Who are we looking for?

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

  • Proven experience in managing the commercials over the full project lifecycle in education, commercial, leisure, healthcare, Ministry of Defence, and mixed-use projects
  • Experience in Tier 1 main contractor environments
  • Experience in both JCT & NEC forms of contracts

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
  • Green Car scheme
  • A free healthcare app, giving you access to clinicians and experts on fertility, pregnancy and baby, menopause and men's health
  • Matched pension scheme up to 7.5%
  • 26 days' annual leave + bank holidays (with the opportunity to buy or sell holiday)
And so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website:



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:

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:

Closing Date: 1st August 2023



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