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We're looking for a Quantity Surveyor to join our Transportation team, based at either Picketts Lock or Wraysbury. In this role, you'll be responsible for managing commercial resources effectively, maximising planned gross margins through the procurement, placement, and control of contracts and subcontractors.

Can you imagine a world without transportation links via land, sea or air? Nor can we! Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Transportation and make a difference. Supporting the movement of people, goods and equipment. 

Location: Picketts Lock and/or Wraysbury depots (limited remote working will be considered to suit individual cases)

Hours: Permanent Fulltime 40 hours per week – some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us

Salary: £50,000 - £55,000 per year + £5k annual car allowance + benefits

What will you be responsible for?

As a Quantity Surveyor, you'll work closely with the Contract Commercial Manager and the wider commercial team to ensure all commercial activities are effectively managed and completed. You'll be responsible for maintaining accurate and up-to-date records across both client IT systems and internal Kier platforms, supporting the successful commercial delivery of the contract.

Your day to day will include:

• Using contract SOR's to price Task Orders raised by the Client within Contractual timescales
• Ensuring the Subcontractors have Task Orders in place to facilitate works delivery
• Subcontractor payments are checked and processed in line with the commercial timetable
• Ensuring all client systems are up to date with information that allows the client to process monthly valuations and final accounts
• Supporting the Commercial Manager in analysing contract data and contract documents in order to improve the contract outputs and produce month-end analysis.

What are we looking for?

This role of Quantity Surveyor is great if you have:

• Previous surveying or experience of working within a commercially focused environment, preferably in Highways
• Ability to use a range of IT packages including Microsoft Office and bespoke packages
• Good organisational skills and the ability to prioritise due to high volume of orders

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.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

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