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You will join our company at a time of exponential growth. Part of this includes new systems, processes, and investing in our team. You are likely to assist with tendering of works, change control, submittals, estimating, and quantity surveying for the business and much more. The business has a big ethos of growing and promoting from within.
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
The roles and duties will evolve over time as experience is gained and dependent on the type and size of projects being works on, however below are a few key areas we anticipate the individual will initially be involved in:
Estimating
- Undertaking detailed take off from drawings using Procore, specifications, and design documents
- Ensuring all works captured within all tender documentations are included within and added to pricing schedule
Subcontractor Procurement
- Setting up, updating, and management of procurement schedules for each project
- Preparing detailed scope of works and/or measured pricing schedules, and/or marked up drawings per package of works using Procore
- Preparing and coordinating tender enquiries
- Communicating with subcontractors and suppliers to ensure prices are received and are compliant, coordinating queries as appropriate
- Analysing and comparing tender returns
- Normalising tender returns and raising, coordinating, and dealing with queries
- Negotiating with preferred contractors
Material Procurement
- Extracting relevant specifications and design information
- Preparing and coordinating enquiries
- Analysing and comparing tender returns
- Normalising tender returns and raising, coordinating, and dealing with queries
Live Project QSing
- Assist with commercial reporting
- Assisting with determining and valuing variations
- Assisting with determining and valuing payment application
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General
- Assisting with commercial and administrative tasks
- General administrative duties within the office
- Design Coordination
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Course contents
- Information management - Provide data, information, and advice for clients relevant to the surveying discipline.
- Health and safety - Recommend solutions to ensure safe and secure working environments.
- Construction technology - Provide advice relating to the construction technology of buildings and their materials.
- Law - Negotiate and agree terms for acquisition/disposal of property, standard forms of building contracts or other property-related contracts and liaise with legal advisers.
- Consultancy - Manage instructions from engagement to completion.
- Building surveys – Undertake inspections and surveys and provide advice and recommendations to clients relating to building surveys.
- Prepare designs and specifications – Carry out the preparation of the design and specification of building projects from outline proposals to completion of the design and specification process.
- Administer contracts – Implement administrative procedures for the running of a construction project. Issue instructions, deal with payment provisions, manage variation procedures, and deal with completion and possession issues and the issuing of certificates.
- Valuation and appraisal - Prepare capital and rental valuations of land and property for a range of formal and appraisal purposes and prepare client reports.
- Land, property, and planning law - Negotiate solutions to issues affecting both owners and occupiers of land and property including at least two of management, sales, lettings, purchase, and/or planning.
- Inspection and measurement – Undertake inspections of land and property and prepare related reports and advice. Use appropriate instrumentation to take measurements of land and property. Apply the appropriate guidance and use the appropriate basis to undertake measurements. Prepare and present measurements in an appropriate manner.
- Tendering and procurement - Provide advice and recommendations as to appropriate procurement routes and manage the tendering processes relevant to them.
- Costing and cost planning of construction works - Undertake the detailed quantification, costing, and cost planning of complex construction works.
- Manage efficiencies of construction contracts – Manage the construction phase of a construction project. Carry out life cycle costing and apply value engineering processes. Prepare data, reports, and forecasts.
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BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying
Day release delivery at ARU's Chelmsford campus.
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay here.
The intention is for the candidate to progress to a Senior Quantity Surveyor and be responsible for Quantity Surveying some of our works in the year to come. How quickly they get there is down to the individual as we do not hold people back as a business and prefer to give people as much opportunity and responsibility as early as possible.
The contact for this apprenticeship is: ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY Recruitment@agsurveying.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000049374.
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