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We're looking for a Clerk of Works  to join our Consultancy Project Services team based in Lincoln. Within this role, you can enjoy competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave, a fantastic, matched pension scheme, a share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans and even more

Location: Lincoln, Lincolnshire

Hours: 30 hours per week 

What will you be responsible for?

As a Clerk of Works you'll be working as an integral part of a multi-disciplinary design team specialising in the delivery aspect of building construction programmes. producing high quality, comprehensive reports, checking of drawings and specifications which will enable projects to be completed within agreed cost and budget parameters, providing technical and practical support to the multi-disciplinary teams. Acting as contract administrator on smaller building projects properly authorising change control approvals and actively working in preventing any contractor or client claims arising from DaBS service delivery, regularly liaising with other disciplines and teams to ensure successful project delivery.

Your day to day will include:

• Inspection and reporting of contractors performance, ensuring compliance with all contract documentation, assessing what surveys are required before work can start and making sure they are undertaken and carrying out basic measured surveys as directed
• Preparing and presenting detailed reports using relevant computer programmes, participating in the detailed design process and the co-ordination of design information
• Liaising with appropriate authorities / client representatives in a professional manner, contributing to design risk assessment
• Administering contracts and visit sites as required
• Supporting local and national sales and bids as appropriate

What are we looking for?

This role of Clerk of Works is great for you if:

• Membership of the Institute of Clerk of Works and Construction Inspectorate of Great Britain, drive and hold a full driving licence 
• Extensive relevant knowledge on building projects at a variety of contract values up to £20M, with previous experience in a Clerk of Works or similar role
• Able to demonstrate an excellent understanding of building construction with an ability to analyse work by designer's and give guidance on best  practice, whilst showing a great awareness of the impact on other  disciplines

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 #joinkier

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