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Senior Quantity Surveyor

Gloucester
3 weeks ago
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Senior Quantity Surveyor – A417 Missing Link Project

Are you ready to make a tangible impact on one of the South West's most important road infrastructure schemes? We're looking for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join our Kier Transportation team in Gloucester, helping deliver the A417 Missing Link project while supporting key commercial functions.  A full driving licence is essential for this role.

We're upgrading a critical stretch of the A417 to improve safety, connectivity, and journey times. The project includes:

4 miles of new dual carriageway linking the A417 Brockworth Bypass with the dual carriageway south of Cowley

Realignment of the route west of the existing Air Balloon roundabout

Construction of 7 structures, including overbridges, underbridges, and underpasses

 

Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.

 

Location: Gloucester - travel to the office required with some remote working

Contract: Permanent Fulltime

Salary: £55,000 - £75,000 + annual car allowance + private healthcare + benefits

 

Responsibilities

As Senior Quantity Surveyor, you'll be a key part of the commercial team, focused on cost control, value creation, and contract management.

Your day to day will include:

Provide commercial expertise to contracts, to include the production and submission of valuations, claims, budget monitoring, and contract/workstream performance data

Support the authorisation and submission of project variations. To authorise the placement of contracts, subcontracts, material and plant orders

Negotiating with sub-contractor supply chain to achieve best value

Implement all of Kier Group's policies including those for SHE and risk management

 

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Quantity Surveyor is great if you have:

Relevant degree or HNC qualifications

Experience within a similar role in the Construction/Highways Industry

Experience working on a major project

Experience working for a tier 1 contractor  

NEC experience

 

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. .

 

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. .

 

Ready to shape the future of transport with us? We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

#LI-JB2

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