Quantity Surveyor
- Recruiter
- Confidential
- Location
- Basingstoke
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 20 Sep 2021
- Closes
- 18 Oct 2021
- Sectors
- Construction & Skilled Trades, Surveying
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Title: Quantity Surveyor
Salary: Circa GBP45k
Location: Basingstoke
Business Unit: Telecoms
Contract: Permanent
From Telecoms to Power, from Lands' End to John O'Groats.
Kier Group is one of the Top 3 utility providers here in the UK - helping connect, heat and power the country from Lands' End to John O'Groats. Our sector expertise stretches across telecoms, gas and water, working with emerging technologies to the most exacting standards of safety and quality. What does it take to join this team that keeps water running for over 15 million homes and businesses, maintaining 65km of gas pipes and installing one million metres of fibre optic cable every year? It takes people like you.
It's taken a great deal for Kier Group to become one of the UK's Top 3 utility providers. It's taken people like you. Professionals who can help connect, heat and power over 15 million homes and businesses - in a team that works with emerging technologies to maintain 65km of gas pipes and install one million metres of fibre optic cable every year.
Key Responsibilities
Reporting into the Managing Quantity Surveyor/Senior Quantity Surveyor, the Quantity Surveyor has responsibility for the back-office support function, evaluation, negotiation, management and mitigation of commercial and contractual risks for the contracts within the Commercial team of our Telecoms division.
As a Quantity Surveyor your role will be providing commercial input, advice on commercial opportunities and savings to the management and project teams to maximize commercial benefit of all contracts. You will be managing and securing payment for contract variations, bonus target payments and contractual claims ensuring that timely and appropriate contract notices and correspondence are issued, project risk management and review of contract documentation as well as post contract commercial and contractual correspondence for individual contracts.
You will ensuring that commercial, bonus schemes and administrative systems, budgets and cost control procedures are in place and operated correctly across all contract operations and all managers, key interface areas within the business are briefed and have sufficient support to monitor and react to budget variances. Production of weekly costs if required as well as production of monthly costs; build database, print records, complete cost comparison for each cost code, highlight errors and monitor corrective action. Complete cost reconciliations when required. There will also be monthly checking of Head Office Accruals to see if they relate to current contract, whether they are already accrued for on Siteman and so in GRN/PRN figure.
Your duties will also include planning, forecasting, submission and agreement of applications and subsequently reporting contract commercial performance. CVR reporting for incorporation into monthly management accounts. You will also manage all necessary support functions in line with company processes and procedures, producing relevant information with emphasis on commercial.
Management skills are key as you will be managing commercial aspects of sub-contract accounts from procurement to interim and final account agreement. Also, drafting of sub-contractor, major supply and professional services agreements and settling final accounts subject to agreed sign-off levels
What do we need from you?
To be successful in this role you will need to be commercially aware with knowledge in procurement, be customer aware and innovative, be capable of maximising contract benefits for mutual and longer-term benefit. You must be able to lead, set up and manage site-based commercial and reporting systems. Have strong analytical skills, highly organised, excellent attention to detail and effective written communication. You will be an expert in problem solving, a skilled communicator and a competent negotiator.
You will be IT literate with experience of working with MS office applications and Cost Control systems (eg Siteman). Have a good understanding of internal/external systems along with a hands-on approach with proven ability to run own jobs. Ideally you will have a Degree/HND or equivalent, member of RICS or working towards and experience of working in a utility environment. Valid UK full driving license.
What will you receive?
You can expect a competitive salary and an outstanding package that includes a company car or allowance, private healthcare, eligibility to a discretionary bonus plan, a matched pension scheme up to 7.5%, 26 days' annual leave + bank holidays (with the opportunity to buy or sell holiday) together with two employee Share Scheme options (Sharesave and Share Incentive Plan). To find out more about the rewards and benefits at Kier, please contact one of our recruiters.
Flexible/Agile Working
At Kier we believe that - wherever we can, whether office or site-based - we should embrace an agile/flexible approach to working. We are proud to offer our employees the opportunity, where we can, to do this. Please don't hesitate to ask during the recruitment process around agile working and flexibility - We'll do our best to support you.
Make the journey. Leave a legacy.
Being part of Kier means living our values of being Collaborative, Trusted and Focused. We all have the potential to shape our world, and it's through these values that we will leave a lasting legacy. Bring your talent and ambition to Kier and you will be given the scope and opportunity to invest in your own future, to build your expertise and contribute to a rich and diverse culture.
Kier is committed to creating supportive and inclusive opportunities for all of our applicants and employees. We appreciate applicants from all backgrounds and we specifically encourage those from underrepresented communities to apply. If you'd like to learn more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion at Kier, you can contact the team by emailing
If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process please let us know so we can discuss and arrange these.
Closing Date: 1st September 2021
Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.
Recruitment Agencies - opportunities at Kier are managed by our internal recruitment team. We are unable to accept unsolicited CVs and communications from external recruiters. If there is a specific business need a member of the recruitment team will engage with agencies who have signed up to our PSL to ensure all CV's are uploaded onto our portal to be considered. For further information, visit our Careers Help page
Salary: Circa GBP45k
Location: Basingstoke
Business Unit: Telecoms
Contract: Permanent
From Telecoms to Power, from Lands' End to John O'Groats.
Kier Group is one of the Top 3 utility providers here in the UK - helping connect, heat and power the country from Lands' End to John O'Groats. Our sector expertise stretches across telecoms, gas and water, working with emerging technologies to the most exacting standards of safety and quality. What does it take to join this team that keeps water running for over 15 million homes and businesses, maintaining 65km of gas pipes and installing one million metres of fibre optic cable every year? It takes people like you.
It's taken a great deal for Kier Group to become one of the UK's Top 3 utility providers. It's taken people like you. Professionals who can help connect, heat and power over 15 million homes and businesses - in a team that works with emerging technologies to maintain 65km of gas pipes and install one million metres of fibre optic cable every year.
Key Responsibilities
Reporting into the Managing Quantity Surveyor/Senior Quantity Surveyor, the Quantity Surveyor has responsibility for the back-office support function, evaluation, negotiation, management and mitigation of commercial and contractual risks for the contracts within the Commercial team of our Telecoms division.
As a Quantity Surveyor your role will be providing commercial input, advice on commercial opportunities and savings to the management and project teams to maximize commercial benefit of all contracts. You will be managing and securing payment for contract variations, bonus target payments and contractual claims ensuring that timely and appropriate contract notices and correspondence are issued, project risk management and review of contract documentation as well as post contract commercial and contractual correspondence for individual contracts.
You will ensuring that commercial, bonus schemes and administrative systems, budgets and cost control procedures are in place and operated correctly across all contract operations and all managers, key interface areas within the business are briefed and have sufficient support to monitor and react to budget variances. Production of weekly costs if required as well as production of monthly costs; build database, print records, complete cost comparison for each cost code, highlight errors and monitor corrective action. Complete cost reconciliations when required. There will also be monthly checking of Head Office Accruals to see if they relate to current contract, whether they are already accrued for on Siteman and so in GRN/PRN figure.
Your duties will also include planning, forecasting, submission and agreement of applications and subsequently reporting contract commercial performance. CVR reporting for incorporation into monthly management accounts. You will also manage all necessary support functions in line with company processes and procedures, producing relevant information with emphasis on commercial.
Management skills are key as you will be managing commercial aspects of sub-contract accounts from procurement to interim and final account agreement. Also, drafting of sub-contractor, major supply and professional services agreements and settling final accounts subject to agreed sign-off levels
What do we need from you?
To be successful in this role you will need to be commercially aware with knowledge in procurement, be customer aware and innovative, be capable of maximising contract benefits for mutual and longer-term benefit. You must be able to lead, set up and manage site-based commercial and reporting systems. Have strong analytical skills, highly organised, excellent attention to detail and effective written communication. You will be an expert in problem solving, a skilled communicator and a competent negotiator.
You will be IT literate with experience of working with MS office applications and Cost Control systems (eg Siteman). Have a good understanding of internal/external systems along with a hands-on approach with proven ability to run own jobs. Ideally you will have a Degree/HND or equivalent, member of RICS or working towards and experience of working in a utility environment. Valid UK full driving license.
What will you receive?
You can expect a competitive salary and an outstanding package that includes a company car or allowance, private healthcare, eligibility to a discretionary bonus plan, a matched pension scheme up to 7.5%, 26 days' annual leave + bank holidays (with the opportunity to buy or sell holiday) together with two employee Share Scheme options (Sharesave and Share Incentive Plan). To find out more about the rewards and benefits at Kier, please contact one of our recruiters.
Flexible/Agile Working
At Kier we believe that - wherever we can, whether office or site-based - we should embrace an agile/flexible approach to working. We are proud to offer our employees the opportunity, where we can, to do this. Please don't hesitate to ask during the recruitment process around agile working and flexibility - We'll do our best to support you.
Make the journey. Leave a legacy.
Being part of Kier means living our values of being Collaborative, Trusted and Focused. We all have the potential to shape our world, and it's through these values that we will leave a lasting legacy. Bring your talent and ambition to Kier and you will be given the scope and opportunity to invest in your own future, to build your expertise and contribute to a rich and diverse culture.
Kier is committed to creating supportive and inclusive opportunities for all of our applicants and employees. We appreciate applicants from all backgrounds and we specifically encourage those from underrepresented communities to apply. If you'd like to learn more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion at Kier, you can contact the team by emailing
If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process please let us know so we can discuss and arrange these.
Closing Date: 1st September 2021
Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.
Recruitment Agencies - opportunities at Kier are managed by our internal recruitment team. We are unable to accept unsolicited CVs and communications from external recruiters. If there is a specific business need a member of the recruitment team will engage with agencies who have signed up to our PSL to ensure all CV's are uploaded onto our portal to be considered. For further information, visit our Careers Help page