Quantity Surveyor

We're looking for a Quantity Surveyor to join our Residential Solutions contract based in Essex.

Location: Rainham, Essex

What will you be responsible for?

As a Quantity Surveyor, you'll be working within the Residential Solutions team, supporting them in managing the commercial resources aspects of the assigned project (or section) to maximise planned gross margin through the placement and control of contracts and subcontracts

Your day to day will include:

• Comply with corporate governance, standards, and procedures.
• To maximise the planned gross margin on projects and support the achievement of the project's budgeted profitability.
• Tender, evaluate, recommend, and appoint consultants, subcontractors and to place orders for materials and plant all within delegated authorities.
• To identify/ evaluate, communicate negotiate and agree variations to contracts with customers and suppliers within delegated authorities and requirements of the contract.
• To implement policies for price, costs and gross margins

What are we looking for?

This role of Quantity Surveyor is great for you if:

• Diverse and clear communication skills with experience of effective communication with multidisciplinary teams, client teams, sub-contractors, and the wider supply chain
• Holds the relevant qualifications (Degree or HNC in Quantity Surveying desirable).
• Experience within a similar role
• Have experience in being the lead and taking ownership of projects where required
• Represent the business at in-person client and supply chain meetings where required

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

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 initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

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.

We look forward to seeing your application to

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