We're looking for a Graduate Quantity Surveyor to join our Kier Places team based in Solihull, West Midlands.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a leading construction and infrastructure services company on our structured graduate development programme. These programmes have been designed to provide you with the experiences and tools needed for progression within your chosen career.

Location: Solihull, West Midlands, with travel to various Kier offices / sites

Contract: Permanent, full time - 40hours per week

Salary: £29,250 per annum

Start date: September 2025

What will you be responsible for?

Kier Group is a leading UK construction and infrastructure services company, made up of different business divisions including Construction, Transportation, Natural Resources, Nuclear & Networks, and Property. With a diverse range of opportunities across the country, we offer a dynamic and inclusive environment where you can launch a rewarding career. To learn more about our business and divisions, visit here.

As a Graduate Quantity Surveyor, you will manage the commercial resources aspects of the assigned project (or section) to maximise planned gross margin through the placement and control of contracts and subcontracts. 

As part of your role as Graduate Quantity Surveyor, you will assess, review and mitigate commercial and contractual risks and implement group policies for risk management.  You will support the compilation, authorisation, and submission of project variations. 

Your role will be to compile and place, subcontracts, material, and plant orders.  You will take accountability for maximising cash flow through the control, measurement (including quality) and valuation of work, and the invoicing of customers and payment of suppliers.

Your day to day will include:

• You will be familiar with QS standards to comply with corporate governance, standards, and procedures.
• Maximise the planned gross margin on projects and support the achievement of the project's budgeted profitability.
• Tender, evaluate, recommend, and appoint consultants, subcontractors and place orders for materials and plant all within delegated authorities.
• You will identify/ evaluate, communicate, negotiate, and agree variations to contracts with customers and suppliers within delegated authorities and requirements of the contract.

How does the graduate scheme work?

When you join, you will be enrolled onto our graduate scheme. The programme will take 2 years to complete and has been designed to equip you with the skills you need to excel in your chosen profession and help you achieve professional membership or chartership.

You can find more details about our schemes here.

Benefits for you

• Practical experience: gain valuable hands-on experience in your field.
• Skill improvement: develop technical and professional skills.
• Networking: build professional relationships and expand your network.
• Career insight: gain insights into your chosen industry and potential career paths.

What are we looking for?

We're looking for people due to graduate in 2025, or have recently graduated within the past three years, with a degree in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management  or a related field. 

The role of Graduate Quantity Surveyor is great for you if:

• Data handling and using it to tell a story - through verification and reporting.
• Effective verbal and written communication
• Engaged with a commitment to create and sustain relationships at all levels.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Experienced user of Office 365 including – Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint & One Drive.

Rewards and benefits

We are proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a variety of flexible benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a high 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.

We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier

Recruitment timeline

October 2024: Initial applications

November 2024: Application reviews

January 2025 onwards: Virtual / in-person assessment centres