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Position: Assistant Quantity Surveyor
Location: HM Naval Base - Plymouth - Devonport Royal Dockyard
Role: Full Time, Monday to Friday
We have an excellent opportunity for an ambitious and detail-focused Assistant Quantity Surveyor to join our projects and facilities management team, supporting the delivery of a diverse range of works across a secure estate!
Job objectives and responsibilities
Pre-Construction
1. Prepare and issue tender enquiries for projects and billable works
2. Assess tender returns for completeness, accuracy, value for money, and compliance
3. Prepare rough order of costs (ROCs) for proposed works and client budget purposes
4. Assist in developing activity schedules, scope documents and pricing templates
5. Liaise with the supply chain to ensure competitive, compliant, and timely tender responses
Commercial Reporting & Risk Management
6. Assist in preparing monthly cost reports and forecasts for review with the Commercial Manager
7. Monitor budget variances, escalate issues, and propose corrective actions
8. Maintain and update risk registers with commercial input
9. Participate in post-project reviews to identify process improvements
Live Project Delivery & Commercial Management
10. Contribute to the delivery of projects from contract award through to completion, working alongside project managers and site teams
11. Prepare and submit interim applications for payment in accordance with contract terms
12. Manage change control processes, ensuring all variations are valued, recorded, and submitted promptly
13. Draft, review, and place subcontract orders, ensuring terms and scopes are clear and robust
14. Track project costs and budgets and produce cash-flows to ensure financial targets are achieved and value for money is maintained
15. Identify and propose cost-saving initiatives to improve project margins
16. Maintain accurate commercial records in relevant systems (e.g. Maximo, Coupa, internal trackers)
What we are looking for:
Essential
17. Experience in a QS, commercial, procurement or project support role (FM, construction, or MOD desirable)
18. Understanding of tendering processes and commercial documentation
19. Confident communicator, able to liaise effectively with suppliers, clients, and internal teams
20. Good numeracy, attention to detail, and ability to work with budgets and cost data
21. Organised, able to prioritise workload and meet deadlines
22. Proficient in MS Excel, Word, and familiar with CAFM or commercial management system
Desirable
23. Experience working on MOD contracts or secure environments
24. Familiarity with NEC or JCT forms of contract
25. Willingness to take on small project management responsibilities
26. Studying towards or interested in pursuing formal QS qualifications (HNC, degree, or RICS pathway)
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Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Jessica Mercel at .