Apprentice Quantity Surveyor
About the role
As a Quantity Surveyor your role will be challenging & rewarding. Below are some of the things you will be involved with:
•Responsible for the financial and contractual control of a building project
•Has a combination of site based and office based duties
•Works as part of the project’s management team
•Works with a variety of computer programmes including, Procore and 4Projects Viewpoint
•Is involved with the measurement of buildings on site and from drawings
•Carries out monthly valuations with the Client’s QS
•Is involved with the appointment and payment of subcontractors
•Attends regular meetings with the Client and their design team
•Reports monthly on the financial position of the project
Working week
You will work 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday. One of these days will be your day at university, whilst undertaking the apprenticeship and for the remaining 4 you will be at work, either at our office or on site.
Skills
Required qualifications
Training & development
Whilst completing your apprenticeship training you will attend university one day a week, across 5 years. You will then have another year in which to complete your end point assessment and become a chartered member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
We will also support you with plenty of off the job learning activities, including site vists and mock projects.
Some of our previous Quantity Surveying apprentices have progressed into Managing Surveying and even Associate Director roles.
Company benefits
- Supportive environment and a wealth of knowledge from managers and mentors
- 25 days holiday per year (plus 8 bank holidays)
- Entry into the Group Personal Pension Scheme
- Private Health Insurance (subject to a qualifying period)
Things to consider
A career in construction will be challenging, fast paced and hard work, but it is also very rewarding. We like to see tenacity, commitment and determination in our apprentices.
About BOWMER AND KIRKLAND LIMITED
We are one of the UK's most successful, family-owned construction and development groups
We are very much a family company with family values at our heart and we are proud of the legacy we have built over the past 100 years in business, but our focus is always on the future, improving communities, enabling regeneration, providing better education facilities and creating opportunities for people, to ensure that this business will be around for the next 100 and beyond.