Quantity Surveyor

Quantity Surveyor

We're looking for a Quantity Surveyor to join our Raigmore Hospital team based in Inverness.

Location: Raigmore Hospital, Inverness

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

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

As a leading Tier 1 Construction contractor, Kier Construction enjoys excellent client relationships and delivers high value, technically complex projects. You'll be joining our team delivering ongoing works at Raigmore Hospital, working closely with the project team and client to deliver a long-term programme of upgrades, improvements and refurbishments on an extensive healthcare facility. This is an opportunity to contribute effectively to the management and mitigation of cost and risk whilst enhancing value for money and achieving required legal standards and quality.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Quantity Surveyor, you'll be working within the Raigmore Hospital team, supporting them in delivering a long-term programme of upgrades, improvements and refurbishments. Your day to day will include:

• Organising projects into component work packages for procurement and assessing returns from sub-contractors
• Negotiating with the sub-contractor supply chain to achieve best value
• Monitoring and measuring actual expenditure against budgeted project expenditure through Cost Value Reconciliation Reports
• Managing applications for payment from sub-contractors and preparation of applications for payment to clients
• Ensuring the financial position of projects is accurately assessed, reported and controlled

What are we looking for?

This role of Quantity Surveyor is great for you if:

• You have demonstrable experience in a quantity surveying capacity within a main contractor environment
• You possess strong knowledge of construction work packages and project commercial management principles
• You have a solid understanding of NEC / JCT Contracts
• You hold a relevant academic qualification – Degree / HND or equivalent in Quantity Surveying
• You hold a Full driving licence

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.

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.