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Closing Date
2025-09-05
Job Title: Quantity Surveyors
Location: Falmer (Hybrid Working)
Salary: Salary and package are to be discussed at the screening stage.
Kickstart your career in Quantity Surveying with Southern Water. We’re growing our commercial team and are excited to offer opportunities for Junior Quantity Surveyors to join us. This is a fantastic chance to learn from experienced professionals, gain exposure to major infrastructure projects, and build a strong foundation in commercial management.
Please note internally you will be known as Assistant Commercial Managers.
Job Overview
You’ll support our Commercial Managers in delivering Southern Water’s most ambitious capital programme to date. You’ll be involved in a variety of tasks across the commercial lifecycle, gaining hands-on experience and developing your skills in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities Will Include
* Assisting with cost management, procurement, and contract administration across capital projects
* Supporting the preparation of estimates, budgets, and tender documentation
* Helping monitor project costs and progress, identifying risks and opportunities
* Learning to interpret and apply NEC contracts and commercial frameworks
* Collaborating with project teams and contractors to ensure value and compliance
* Contributing to reporting and documentation to support decision-making
About You
We’re looking for someone who is either studying towards or has recently completed a relevant qualification in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, or a related field. You’ll be eager to learn, detail-oriented, and a strong communicator. Some exposure to construction or infrastructure projects is beneficial but not essential—we’re more interested in your potential and enthusiasm.
Package
This role will be full time Monday to Friday 37 hours a week.
Southern Water operate a hybrid approach to working between our Falmer office and home.
Benefits
We are offering a salary of up to TBC per annum depending on skills and experience as well as other benefits including:
* Company and performance-related bonus
* Generous pension up to 11% company contribution
* 25 days annual leave
* Life assurance equal to 4x salary
* Salary sacrifice electric car scheme (after 6 months service)
* Health Cash Plan
* Full funded eye tests
* Two paid volunteering days a year
* Occupational health service
* Discounts with over 800 popular retailers
* Digital GP service
* Study support may be available for job-related qualifications
* Competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options
* Cycle to work scheme
Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you’ll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.
Privacy Statement
Please note: If you are an existing Southern Water employee, you will need to confirm within your application that your Manager is aware of your application.
All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. You will need to provide evidence of eligibility (e.g. a passport or long birth certificate and proof of NI) and current proof of address (dated within the last 3 months), will be required as part of the recruitment process. If you do not meet these criteria, your application will not be considered.
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