Apprentice Quantity Surveyor

Our client an award winning Multi-Disciplinary Consultancy are currently recruiting an Apprentice Quantity Surveyor into their expanding Quantity Surveying team in their Colchester office and they are offering a place at ARU (Anglia Ruskin University) for the Quantity Surveying Degree Apprenticeship.

The successful Apprentice Quantity Surveyor, you will carry out the full complement of traditional surveying services whilst working collaboratively with other surveyors and consultants across a variety of sectors including local authority, commercial, healthcare and education.

Apprentice Quantity Surveyor Position Overview

• Accept instructions from clients where appropriate and to provide services for their needs.
• Help produce outline cost plan and budgets adapted to suit client requirements, produce preliminaries and contract documents to enable projects to be tendered.
• Work with other design team members to help inform the design from a cost perspective; prepare an updated monthly project cash flow if required.
• Assess tenders and make recommendations to clients by providing a tender analysis.
• Act as a support to the Project Manager where required on projects by attending site for Pre-Start and Project Meetings to advise on costings. To understand and clearly define clients' expectations to provide advice, keep them informed of progress on projects and make them aware of technical and financial implications.
• When appropriate inspect works on site ensuring that the quantum of work and costs performance has been achieved and authorise payments to contractors accordingly.
• Help to ensure expenditure is controlled and that schemes are completed within budget and on time.
• Agree final accounts with Contractors and Clients.

Apprentice Quantity Surveyor Position Requirements

• Evidence of GCSE qualifications in 4 subjects including Math and English (entry requirement).
• Minimum BBC Grades at A Level - 112 UCAS Tariff Points at Level 3 (entry requirement).
• Developing knowledge/understanding of construction legislation and law (basic).
• Strong numeracy ability and data analysis skills (use of Microsoft Excel).
• IT skills and the ability to learn design and costing IT packages.
• All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK (where the role and apprenticeship is based).
• Have a genuine interest in Quantity Surveying.

Apprentice Quantity Surveyor Position Remuneration

• Competitive starting salary of £21,555 per annum
• Great office team building events and fully expensed seasonal social events.
• Opportunities for personal and professional growth in a supportive environment.
• Competitive Company Pension Scheme.
• Opportunities for flexible and remote working - we understand a work life balance helps us all.
• Cycle to work Scheme.
• Employee Referral Scheme.
• Death in service benefit.
• Health cash plan scheme.
• Generous holiday entitlement with long service recognition and festive shutdown.
• Early Finish incentives when the Practice targets are hit.

Bennett and Game Recruitment are a multi-disciplined technical recruitment agency based in Chichester, West Sussex operating across the UK with specialist teams covering a range of industries. We are acting as a Recruitment Agency in relation to this vacancy, and in accordance with GDPR by applying you are granting us consent to process your data, and contact you in relation to this application and the services we offer.