Start your Quantity Surveying career with Thames Water
Kick‑start your future as a Quantity Surveying Assistant Apprentice, supporting the UK’s largest water and wastewater provider. You’ll gain hands‑on experience across the full project lifecycle—helping deliver projects from conception to handover—while working toward a Level 4 Construction Quantity Surveying Technician qualification.
What you’ll do:
1. Support the commercial delivery of £150k–£5m+ water and wastewater projects.
2. Help keep projects on track by managing milestones, contracts, and commercial processes.
3. Work with the Complex Customer Projects team on cost management, tender reviews, and change control.
4. Assist with reports, dashboards, tender comparisons, valuations, estimates, and final accounts.
5. Carry out research and benchmarking to ensure value for money.
6. Build strong relationships with providers, designers, and commercial teams to help deliver high‑quality outcomes.
Where you will work:
Location: Clearwater Court Reading RG1 8DB- Hybrid
Hours: 36 hours a week across four working days plus one off-the-job training day,
Start date: Sept 2026
Training and qualification: You’ll study with University of Built Environment, one of the UK’s leading quantity surveying training providers via virtual online weekly workshops.
Qualification: Construction quantity surveying technician Level 4 Standard- Certificate of Higher Education Construction and Built Environment
Duration: Permanent contract with a 16–24-month structured programme
What you should bring to the role
7. Has GCSE Maths and English (grade 9-4 / A-C)
8. 64 UCAS points (equivalent to 2x Cs or MM for BTEC)
9. Can manage their time well and stay organised
10. Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
11. Works well in a team but is also confident working independently
12. Is passionate about learning and aligned with Thames Water’s goals for the future
What’s in it for you?
13. Excellent salary: £22,500 annum
14. Annual Leave: 24 days holiday per year increasing to 28 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
15. Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets
16. Generous Pension Scheme through AON
17. Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.