Senior Quantity Surveyor

May 23, 2022 | Comments Off on Senior Quantity Surveyor

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Job Title: Senior Quantity Surveyor

Location: Flexible within Cornwall & Devon

Business Area: Kier Utilities- South West Water

Contract: Permanent- Full Time

We are Kier, one of the UK's leading construction and infrastructure services and we are now recruiting a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our Utilities team working for our client South West Water

As Senior Quantity Surveyor, your prime responsibilities will be to increase value, reduce cost and manage risk in a safe and ethical manner.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Ensure cash flow is maximised, provide commercial input including financial and contractual performance forecasts to the management team, as well as be involved in physical measurements of works
  • Prepare monthly cost/ value reports together with review of results and consideration of trends
  • Manage subcontractors, collating prices, comparing with tender, negotiation, order placement and agreement of account & payment
What do we need from you?

  • Hold a Degree in Quantity Surveying or equivalent
  • Hold experience of working with NEC suite of contracts along with sound commercial and business knowledge
  • A full driving licence as travel to surrounding sites/ offices will be required
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 benefits include:

  • New and enhanced family friendly policies with 8 weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave and important guidance on the menopause and the support we can offer
  • A competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave.
  • Option of a company car or cash allowance
  • A fantastic matched pension scheme
  • Share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our sharesave and share incentive plans.
  • 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family
  • Kier's Green Car Scheme
  • A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands
  • And many many more!
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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 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 .

Closing Date: 20th June 2022

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

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