Managing Quantity Surveyor
| Posting date: | 20 March 2026 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 March 2026 |
| Location: | SO53 3TG |
| Company: | Kier Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 10485 |
Summary
We're looking for a Managing Quantity Surveyor to join our regional construction team based in Southampton.
Location: Hampshire, Southampton Hours: Some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.
Join us as a Managing Quantity Surveyor and take the lead on exciting public and private sector construction projects. You'll play a pivotal role in providing commercial guidance, ensuring compliance, and supporting our talented project teams to achieve successful outcomes.
What will you be responsible for?
As a Managing Quantity Surveyor, you'll be working within the construction build team, supporting them in delivering high-quality projects whilst maintaining excellent commercial standards. Your day to day will include:
-Providing financial feasibility advice during the early stages of projects,
-Assessing sub-contractor returns and awarding work packages,
-Monitoring expenditure against budgets through Value Cost Reconciliation Reports,
-Leading and developing your team, managing workloads and performance,
-Collating and reviewing commercial information to ensure accuracy and compliance.
What are we looking for?
This role of Managing Quantity Surveyor is great for you if:
-You have experience working on large two-stage bids,
-You've worked within a Tier 1 main contracting environment,
-You're comfortable building relationships with clients, sub-contractors and internal stakeholders,
-You enjoy mentoring and supporting junior team members,
-You have strong commercial awareness and attention to detail.
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.
As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
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 convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions 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.
We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.
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Location: Hampshire, Southampton Hours: Some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.
Join us as a Managing Quantity Surveyor and take the lead on exciting public and private sector construction projects. You'll play a pivotal role in providing commercial guidance, ensuring compliance, and supporting our talented project teams to achieve successful outcomes.
What will you be responsible for?
As a Managing Quantity Surveyor, you'll be working within the construction build team, supporting them in delivering high-quality projects whilst maintaining excellent commercial standards. Your day to day will include:
-Providing financial feasibility advice during the early stages of projects,
-Assessing sub-contractor returns and awarding work packages,
-Monitoring expenditure against budgets through Value Cost Reconciliation Reports,
-Leading and developing your team, managing workloads and performance,
-Collating and reviewing commercial information to ensure accuracy and compliance.
What are we looking for?
This role of Managing Quantity Surveyor is great for you if:
-You have experience working on large two-stage bids,
-You've worked within a Tier 1 main contracting environment,
-You're comfortable building relationships with clients, sub-contractors and internal stakeholders,
-You enjoy mentoring and supporting junior team members,
-You have strong commercial awareness and attention to detail.
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.
As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
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 convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions 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.
We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.
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A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.