Managing Quantity Surveyor

Job Summary by the Career Balance Team:

Kier Group is seeking a Managing Quantity Surveyor to join their North West business in Lancaster on a full-time, permanent basis. The successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing the commercial team and managing their own workload to ensure cost and risk mitigation for a £100 million project. Key responsibilities include advising on project feasibility, organizing procurement, assessing subcontractors, monitoring expenditure, and managing team workloads. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in a senior commercial position within the main contracting environment and strong contractual knowledge.

Job Description:

We have an excellent opportunity for a Managing Quantity Surveyor to join our North West business in a key role that will be aligned with a £100M in Lancaster 

 

Location: Lancaster, Manchester 

Contract: Full Time, Permanent 

 

What will you be responsible for?

As Managing Quantity Surveyor you will take day to day oversight of the commercial team as well as managing your own workload to manage and mitigate cost and risk of the project, while still achieving the required legal standards and quality under the specific agreed contract conditions.

 

Your day to day will include:

 

• Advising on financial feasibility of projects at early stages
• Organising the division of projects into component work packages for procurement.
• Assessing returns from sub-contractors and awarding work packages and negotiating with sub-contractor supply chain to achieve best value
• Monitoring and measuring actual expenditure against budgeted project expenditure in the form of CVR (Cost Value Reconciliation Reports
• Managing team workloads
• Checking and collating commercial information from team

 

What are we looking for?

This role of Managing Quantity Surveyor is great if you : 

• Have significant experience working within the main contracting environment in senior commercial position. 
• You are able to manage team resources and guide and mentor commercial staff at various levels 
• You have strong contractual knowledge  having delivered under NEC and JCT conditions 

 

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 an Enhanced Level 1 (EL1) 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 join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier

Location: Salford, Lancashire