Assistant Quantity Surveyor in Glasgow

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working? At M Group Highways, we’re supporting the safe transportation and movement of people across the UK. We don’t just build roads and bridges - we’re building a better future, creating lasting social value that gives back to the communities in which we work. You’ll be joining our Highways maintenance team, as the UK’s number one highway maintenance contractor, our teams use the latest innovations to create effective solutions. We offer a range of services including planned and reactive maintenance and highway improvement schemes.

What will you be doing? You'll be working with the Quantity Surveyors and supporting them with the day-to-day role. You'll be agreeing sub-contract applications, preparation and submission of client billing and identifying contract variations. We'll ask you to support with cost and value reconciliations on complete works and works in progress. You'll support with compiling quotations for new work and keeping appropriate records and schedules in all activities when processing invoices, compiling invoices and updating spreadsheets. Reporting of monthly figures to senior management and monitoring project costs and feeding back cost value information to the site team. You'll be analysing tender allowances before sub-contractors are rewarded specific jobs meeting with the client to understand client budgets and maintaining constant dialogue to reach year-end targets. Implement commercial processes to ensure contractual entitlement is realised. You'll work within strict deadlines required under the contract and required by the company. Assisting in the collection of data/facts with respect of all variations to the works in conjunction with other teams.

What you’ll bring: HNC or equivalent in Quantity Surveying or relevant construction related discipline would be ideal but not necessary. Experience within highways maintenance preferred. Good numeracy skills. Good verbal and written communication skills. Self-motivated and confident. Commercial/Financially acumen. Capacity to meet tight deadlines. Confident IT skills, proficient in the use of MS Office in particular Excel.

What’s in it for you? We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include:

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme

In addition, this role offers:

• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend - get rewarded for introducing people to us!
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Personal Accident Cover

About us: We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs. Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours. We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet. We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations. We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life.

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development. It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered. For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.