Kier Group are looking for a Managing Quantity Surveyor to join Kier Mechanical & Electrical (KME) which is our internal MEP Self Delivery business.

Kier Mechanical & Electrical support our internal build teams across the UK and have full design, construct and commissioning capability with our core sectors including Defence, Health/Science, Custodial, Commercial and Education.

Location: Basingstoke, Hampshire or London.

Contract: Full Time, Permanent. Ask us about other flexible options.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Managing Quantity Surveyor you will take ownership for managing the commercial resources across your assigned projects, looking to maximise planned gross margin.

What will your days look like?

• Supporting preconstruction activities across a framework of projects.
• Engaging with stakeholders across multiple projects to bring consistency of approach to all projects.
• Provide a core team approach so all projects benefit from lessons learnt and evolve practises to suit from lessons learnt.
• Manage valuations, cashflows, turnover forecasts, risk and margin management.
• Advise wider commercial team on framework practises.

What are we looking for?

In a Managing Quantity Surveyor, we're ideally looking for:

• Experience in managing and reporting a portfolio of projects.
• Experience with projects in the Defence sector would be advantageous but not essential.
• Experience of projects with MEP values over 20 Million.
• Experienced in preconstruction activities.

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

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. You can see more information of 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.

Due to the nature of this role and the nature of the work at this site, you will be required to complete a Government Security Check (SC) Clearance / Counter Terrorism Check (CTC), which takes place during/before your employment, and is conducted by the Cabinet Office's United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) agency who set out a pre-requisite criteria including residency history. (Applicants with criminal convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's criminal record or the details of any offences disclosed to us - To read more about our programme to support people with convictions into employment, visit www.kier.co.uk/careers/making-ground). This role will also be subject to further pre-employment checks.

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