Senior Quantity Surveyor

We're looking for a Senior Project Quantity Surveyor to commercially lead from pre con through delivery on a 40M education project in Dalkeith

Location: Dalkeith, Midlothian

Hours: 40 Hours Per Week, some flexibility for home working

What will you be responsible for?

As Senior Quantity Surveyor you will take a key role ensuring commercial success of projects, from pre con to final account, overseeing and mentoring more junior commercial staff.

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.
• Negotiating with sub-contractor supply chain to achieve best value, managing applications for payment from sub contractors.
• Ensuring that contract conditions are being followed (NEC / JCT).
• Monitoring and measuring actual expenditure against budgeted project expenditure in the form of CVR (Cost Value Reconciliation Reports).
• Preparation of final accounts.

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Project Quantity Surveyor is great for you if:

• You hold a degree / HND or equivalent level qualification in quantity surveying
• You are able to demonstrate experience working on large 2 stage bids (desired)
• You have appropriate understanding of NEC and JCT contract conditions.
• You have appropriate level of experience of working within Main Contracting organisations.
• You can demonstrate a track record of delivering high value projects - 10M - 100M.

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