Senior Quantity Surveyor Job at Kier in Cardiff

Kier Group is advertising a Senior Quantity Surveyor position within its Construction team in Cardiff. The advertised work centres on the commercial resources of assigned projects: placing and controlling contracts and subcontracts, managing variations, valuing work and protecting planned project margin. The post brings commercial discipline to regional construction delivery while maintaining constructive relationships with customers, contractors and suppliers.

The employer describes a permanent, full-time role at Conway House, with scope to discuss flexibility in working hours. It calls for a surveyor who can communicate clearly across multidisciplinary teams and the supply chain, organise competing work and use Microsoft Office alongside bespoke systems. An Enhanced DBS check is part of the stated pre-employment process for this position.

Opportunity Details

Overview of the Vacancy

Location, Sector, and Role Context

This Senior Quantity Surveyor post sits in Kier’s Construction business in Cardiff. The stated purpose is to manage the commercial resources assigned to projects and to maximise planned gross margin through sound contract placement and control. The role also has a risk-management dimension: it supports major regional projects by identifying, assessing and mitigating commercial risk while helping delivery teams work safely, to programme and to the required quality. Commercial decisions in this role are therefore closely tied to the practical delivery of the project, rather than being separated from the teams carrying out the work.

Day-to-day commercial work spans the route from agreed change through valuation and payment. The surveyor will negotiate project variations with customers and suppliers, measure and value work for invoicing and supplier payments, and keep a positive focus on cash flow. The advertised remit includes leading the project’s commercial staff and building collaborative working relationships across functions. This requires a clear record of commercial activity and an ability to move between detailed project information and conversations with the people responsible for delivery. It is therefore suited to an established commercial professional comfortable balancing project controls, communication and team leadership.

About the Employer: Kier Group

Organization and Relevant Services

Verified Employer Overview

Kier Group describes itself as an infrastructure and construction group working across the United Kingdom. Its corporate information presents the business as a national contractor with a regional footprint. The group says its capability extends through the project lifecycle, covering development, design, building, maintenance and repurposing. This means its stated activity is not confined to one construction stage: its teams may be involved as an asset is developed, built, maintained or repurposed. That lifecycle context is relevant to a commercial role that must connect contracts, supply arrangements and project performance.

The group’s stated Infrastructure and Construction activity covers the design, building, maintenance and operation of assets relied on by people, communities and the economy. Its Construction teams create and maintain social infrastructure, including hospitals, schools and public buildings. Kier identifies water, energy, defence and healthcare as growth sectors, and transport, education and central government among its core sectors. The Cardiff vacancy refers to work across education, health, defence and other strategic sectors. Kier says its teams combine national capability with local knowledge and relationships, an operating model that aligns with the vacancy’s emphasis on customer, contractor and subcontractor relationships.

Professional Setting and Role Context

Work Environment, Operations, and Facilities

For this advertised role, Conway House in Cardiff is the named workplace. The Construction team’s project context includes major regional delivery and a requirement to support safe, timely and quality-focused outcomes. Kier’s careers information identifies commercial and project management as a dedicated career area, placing quantity surveying alongside the commercial controls that support its construction work. Its careers materials also distinguish trades and operative, engineering and design, corporate, apprenticeship and graduate pathways. That breadth gives context to the multidisciplinary working described in the advert. The vacancy itself makes clear that collaboration across functions is integral rather than incidental to the role.

Kier’s careers materials describe learning and development through its Kier Learn platform, support for a personal professional membership fee, and apprenticeship opportunities. The benefits page says its retirement savings plan is open to eligible employees and that Kier makes contributions alongside theirs. It also describes support for health and wellbeing and flexible-working arrangements where possible. For quantity-surveying professionals seeking chartership, the same page says there is a one-off professional-development bonus on becoming fully chartered while working at Kier. The specific Cardiff advert says that flexibility in hours can be discussed. These group-level provisions provide useful employment context, but eligibility and the arrangements for this individual post should be confirmed during the official application process.

Open Positions

Application Guidance

Prepare a Focused Application

CV, Evidence, Documents, and Interview Preparation

The following is general preparation guidance rather than an additional employer requirement. A focused application can make the connection between prior quantity-surveying work and the advertised responsibilities clear. Use concise project examples to show how commercial controls have been applied across contract or subcontract activity, valuation, change management, supplier payment and risk management. Explain the individual contribution and the result without disclosing confidential customer or pricing information.

Because the advert stresses communication with multidisciplinary teams, clients and the supply chain, prepare examples that demonstrate how commercial issues were explained and resolved with different stakeholders. Applicants can also be ready to discuss their approach to balancing competing priorities, using Microsoft Office and specialist software, and contributing to a collaborative project team. The stated DBS process merits careful, accurate completion of any information requested through the formal application route.

• Tailor the CV profile to commercial-resource management, contract controls and project variation work.
• Select examples that show measured work, valuation, invoicing or supplier-payment activity and the commercial reasoning behind it.
• Describe a situation where proactive risk control protected a project’s commercial position.
• Prepare clear examples of working with client, contractor and subcontractor contacts on a shared project issue.
• Review the accuracy of contact details and complete the consent and DBS-related steps honestly when the form requests them.

How to Apply

Submit Your Application Through the Verified Route

Apply Through the Official Kier Vacancy Page

Use the official Kier vacancy page below and select the application control for this Senior Quantity Surveyor role. The verified page opens a “Start your application” form in the same vacancy context. Complete the requested contact details, review the privacy-consent statement, then use the form’s Apply control to submit the application through the official route.