Senior Quantity Surveyor

We are looking for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our Natural Resources Team. In this role, you will 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

Contract: Permanent, Full Time – flexible and part time hours may be available if desired, just let us know.

Responsibilities:

• Provide commercial support to the project teams, maintaining commercial information and ensuring compliance with contractual requirements.
• Liaise with the customer and third parties on commercial issues, looking at agreement of variations, claims, and any additional payments.
• Support the Commercial Manager and MQS delivering work for AMP 8 in clean and wastewater.
• Manage a £40m package of works, including the management of a team of junior QSs, mentoring and nurturing their development.
• Provide commercial input including financial and contractual performance forecasts to the management team.
• Help ensure that business targets and KPIs are met/exceeded.
• Work closely with the wider Commercial Team to advise on commercial strategy to ensure successful conversion of opportunities and profitability of work undertaken.
• Assess, review, and mitigate commercial and contractual risks and implement Kier Group's policies for risk management.
• Ensure robust, accurate, and timely cost and value reporting at project level and prepare as well as update monthly VCRs, cost and produce accurate forecasts and budget information.

What are we looking for?

• A relevant Degree or equivalent in Quantity Surveying.
• Proven experience in a senior commercial capacity managing teams of significant size, preferably in the Water sector and/or within regulated utilities.
• Knowledge and experience of NEC forms of contract as well as current Construction Law.
• Experience in commercial management and procurement of subcontractors, including chairing regular meetings, measurement and control cycle, certificates, and accruals calculations.
• Experience in procurement and working alongside the procurement team to implement programme and project procurement strategy goals.

We are 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.

Rewards and benefits:

We are proud to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.

Diversity and inclusion:

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We are proud of the steps we have 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.

We look forward to seeing your application to join Kier.

Benefits include: Matched pension scheme up to 7.5%, Life Assurance, Enhanced Family Friendly Policies, Discounts on go-to brands, Free Health and wellbeing services, Training and development schemes, Electric Vehicle Leasing, Paid volunteering leave.