Graduate Quantity Surveyor

About Morgan Sindall Construction

Morgan Sindall Construction is one of the UK's leading construction companies, delivering high-quality projects across education, healthcare, commercial, industrial, leisure and public sector markets. Morgan Sindall Construction is proud to be a member of The 5% Club, demonstrating our commitment to developing talent through apprenticeships, graduate, year out placement programmes and ongoing professional development opportunities.

What will I be doing as a Graduate Quantity Surveyor?

• Be part of a structured development programme that covers a range of personal development and technical themes. All our training workshops are heavily practical and grounded in real life scenarios.
• We have a large community of apprentices, graduates and undergraduates currently in the business and plenty of experienced colleagues who get involved in supporting the programme.
• You’ll also be offered a professional scheme mentor, to help you expand graduate membership of your specific chartered body.
• You will gain first class on-the-job experience in your role fully supported by line management and the wider network of skilled colleagues in the business.

A day as a Graduate Quantity Surveyor can look like:

• Applying best practice to our commercial processes to help maximise returns in terms of profit.
• Using your keen eye to identify and drive out any redundant costs
• Supporting with the preparation and closure on monthly invoices looking at variations, claims, and any disputes.
• Learning how to conduct project financial forecasts
• Becoming the go-to-person for our and wider contractual, commercial, regulatory procedures

What are we looking for?

• As a graduate you will have a good understanding and enthusiasm for your chosen career path.
• A degree accredited by a chartered body i.e., RICS, CIOB at lower second or above.
• You should also have the ability to travel or drive to remote site locations and ideally some exposure to a construction/engineering environment.
• To thrive in our business, you should share our passion for the project at hand and enjoy working in an inclusive and hardworking team environment. At Morgan Sindall Construction our employees work collectively, encouraging and challenging each other to succeed. Across our business we treat everyone equally and have developed a community where voices are heard, and respected.

What can we offer you?

• You will be part of a growing and dynamic team of people who are passionate about what they do and enjoy the challenge and pace of work in a hardworking and fun construction environment.
• No day will be the same and we challenge each other to deliver what’s right for our customers.
• Our culture is so important to us and defines the way we go about our business. We are inclusive, supportive and team focused and take pride in the longstanding and committed relationships we have with our supply chain partners.
• Our culture places a huge amount of trust in our team – we all know what is expected of us and we are committed to delivering as individuals and as a team.