Job Overview
We’re 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 or Falmer, East Sussex
Contract: Permanent, Full Time – flexible and part‑time hours may be available if desired.
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.
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, managing agreement of variations, claims and any additional payments. Support the Commercial Manager and MQS delivering work for AMP 8 in clean and wastewater.
Day to Day
* Management of a £40m package of works, including a team of junior QS’ and mentoring their development.
* Providing commercial input including financial and contractual performance forecasts to the management team, helping ensure business targets and KPI's are met or exceeded.
* Working closely with the wider Commercial Team to advise on commercial strategy, ensuring successful conversion of opportunities and profitability of work undertaken.
* Assessing, reviewing and mitigating commercial and contractual risks and implementing Kier Group’s policies for risk management.
* Ensuring robust, accurate and timely cost and value reporting at project level and preparing as well as updating monthly VCRs, cost and value reports, accurate forecasts and budget information.
Qualifications
* 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 procurement team to implement programme and project procurement strategy goals.
We’re all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! Even if you don’t tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.
Rewards and Benefits
We’re proud to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information about 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.
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