We're looking for a Quantity Surveyor to join our Natural Resources team, to become a core member in the mobilisation, development and delivery of our Wessex Water AMP8 Capital delivery partnership framework.

 

Location:  Working from home and site/offices in Taunton and surrounding area.  
Contract: Permanent, Full Time – flexible and part time hours may be available if desired, just let us know

 

Responsibilities

We're looking for a Quantity Surveyor to join our NRNN business unit Water business unit. The successful post-holders' prime function is to support the commercial delivery of the Framework. They will manage value, reduce cost, drive profit and manage risk in a safe and ethical manner.

The programme includes a large number of wastewater treatment plant upgrades, various storm water attenuation works, plus other networks solutions. Projects will include the construction of new assets, refurbishment, modifications, and maintenance for both above and below ground infrastructure.   

 

Your day to day will include:

Procurement of subcontractors in line with our commercial standards, ensuring best value for Kier and our client. Subcontract preparation, measurement of interim payments, administration of change and disputes and preparation of final accounts. Ensuring subcontract, labour, plant, and materials costs are within allowance and correctly paid and recorded. Ensuring all cost and financial information is received, collated, saved and retrievable upon request as may be required by audit (both internal and external). Submission of change management notifications in accordance with the NEC forms of contract.

What are we looking for?

This Quantity Surveyor is great for you if you have:

A degree or equivalent in Quantity Surveying along with experience working with NEC form of contracts. Excellent IT skills, particularly Excel and excellent numeric and literacy skills A background in the Civils / Water infrastructure or a transferable industry.

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 join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier #LI-CH1