Quantity Surveyor in Salford

We're looking to recruit a Quantity Surveyor for our Kier Transportation Rail business to help the commercial team on several exciting and challenging rail related projects across the Greater Manchester region.

Can you imagine a world without transportation links via land, sea, or air? Nor can we! Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Transportation and make a difference. Supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.

Location: Greater Manchester, Lancashire

Business Area: Kier Transportation, Rail

Contract: Full Time, Permanent

What will your responsibilities be?

As a Quantity Surveyor, you'll be working within the Kier Rail team, supporting them with the commercial aspects on a wide range of rail infrastructure projects for a diverse customer base. Our projects range from major improvements to complete construction of new stations, with specialist teams, we manage complex works from conception through to delivery.

Your day to day will include:

• Support the commercial teams in securing maximum sustainable value from contracts, and in managing subcontractors firmly and fairly.
• Compile monthly application for payment to Client and track the certification.
• Prepare monthly regional CV and forecast reports.
• Compile, submit and agree the financial effects of variations.
• Compile Project specific commercial issues for reporting and presentation at Client progress meetings

What are we looking for?

This role of Quantity Surveyor is great for you if:

• Holds the relevant qualifications (e.g., Degree in Quantity Surveying)
• You have experience within the rail, construction or civils industry.
• Experience within a similar role
• Experience of identifying and managing commercial risks and opportunities

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 use. 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 join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier