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We're looking for a Quantity Surveyor to join our Natural Resources Team. In this role you'll provide commercial support to the project teams on our 7-year, c£1bn framework with Southern Water.

Location: Working from home and site/offices in Chatham, Kent or Falmer, East Sussex (ideally weekly visits to Falmer initially) 

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 water frameworks responsible for assisting with control of costs, maximising value, minimising future liabilities, and maintaining the required safety and quality standards. The QS will also work with a variety of managers and other teams to assist Kier in increasing cost efficiency and creating a high-performing environment.   

Your day to day will include:

• Administer and enforce business commercial procedures; measuring works carried out and reconciling Target Cost.
• Preparing Monthly and final applications for payment including VOWD, ETC and EAC reporting.
• Accurately monitoring, forecasting and reporting project cost and value.
• Assessment and payment of sub-contract applications for payment in line with contractual, industry and business requirements (including the issuing of notifications).  
• Ability to interrogate cost reports and interpret financial data reconciling cost and recognising value.
  
  

What are we looking for?

This Quantity Surveyor is great for you if you have:

• Experience on NEC contracts with Target Costs and
• Excellent IT skills including the use of the Microsoft business suite particularly Microsoft Excel.
• Good communication skills with Client facing attributes
• Knowledge in understanding and preparing cash flow forecasts.
• Excellent numeric and literacy skills with knowledge in interpreting and collating financial data.

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.

If you would like to explore more about the incredible growth and scale of our water business, dive into our diverse project portfolios, and uncover both current and future career opportunities. You can see more information about our water business here.

There's never been a better time to get involved, register your interest today and take the first step toward a rewarding career with us!

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 #LI-CH1

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.