Managing Quantity Surveyor

We're looking for a Managing Quantity Surveyor in Leeds

Location: Leeds / Yorkshire, working between office and projects with some opportunity for home working

Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday

What will you be responsible for?

As Managing Quantity Surveyor you will take on a key role in the business ensuring commercial success throughout the commercial lifecycle from driving the conversion of stage two bids, successful delivery of high value projects and acting as a manager / mentor to commercial staff in the region.

Your day to day will include:

• Taking commercial lead on PCSA on projects, 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.
• Negotiating with sub-contractor supply chain to achieve best value.
• Preparation of applications for payment to clients.
• Monitoring and measuring actual expenditure against budgeted project expenditure in the form of CVR (Cost Value Reconciliation Reports)
• Preparation of final accounts
• Managing team workloads and ensuring performance across projects
• Checking and collating commercial information from team to report to the regional commercial manager

What are we looking for?

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

• Hold a degree level qualification in Quantity Surveying
• Experience working on large 2 stage bids, leading conversion if PCSA to ensure pipeline progression.
• Strong Knowledge of NEC and JCT Contract forms
• Prior experience of working within the Tier 1 main contracting environment in a senior commercial position
• Ability to manage a varied workload across projects.
• Ability to manage and mentor more junior staff

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.

We look forward to seeing your application to