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About The Role
As Assistant Quantity Surveyor in Reading, you will support a Senior Quantity Surveyor across a project portfolio, ensuring value for money and contractual adherence for Thames Water. Duties include commercial assurance, challenging small-value tenders, verifying timely payments, and assessing variations under relevant contracts. You will also attend site meetings. Assignments range from £25k to £200M, offering broad exposure. This full-time role commands a competitive salary between £30,000 and £42,000, dependent on experience. The position suits someone with strong numeracy, negotiation skills, and a grasp of contract law, seeking to develop within a major utility’s capital programme.
We have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Quantity Surveyor who will work on a portfolio of projects under the supervision of a Senior Quantity Surveyor to ensure that value for money is achieved alongside contractual compliance. You could have the opportunity to work on a variety of projects ranging in contractor value from £25k to £200M during your career at Thames Water.
What you’ll be doing as an Assistant Quantity Surveyor
- Supporting with the Commercial Assurance of Major Projects and Programmes Contracts.
- Challenge and agreement of small-value project Tenders.
- Ensuring that payments are made on time and in accordance with the Contract for your given portfolio of Projects.
- Assessing Variations under the relevant Contracts on assigned portfolio.
- Attending site meetings on site.
- Data collecting the relevant Contracts on assigned portfolio.
- Auditing and agreeing on Project Accounts.
Base Location
Reading – Hybrid
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Working Pattern or hours
36 hours
What You Should Bring To The Role
To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you’ll need is:
- Practical Work Experience.
- Hold a degree in Quantity Surveying or equivalent.
- Have the desire to work towards gaining Chartered Status.
- Some knowledge of water regulation. (incl. OFWAT Price Review methodology)
- Be good at building and maintaining relationships.
- Have good communication skills.
- Hold a full UK Driving license and have your own transport.
What’s in it for you?
- Competitive salary from £30,000 to £42,000 per annum, depending on experience.
- Annual Leave - 24 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service. (plus bank holidays)
- Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets.
- Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
- Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.
Find out more about our benefits and perks (Please note different T&Cs apply if on secondment)
Who are we?
We’re the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people, and the planet to thrive. It’s a big job and we’ve got a long way to go, so we need help from passionate and skilled people, committed to making a difference and getting us to where we want to be in the years and decades to come.
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Working at Thames Water
Thames Water is a unique, rewarding, and diverse place to work, where every day you can make a difference, yet no day is the same. As part of our family, you’ll enjoy meaningful career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and excellent benefits.
If you’re looking for a sustainable and successful career where you can make a daily difference to millions of people’s lives while helping to protect the world of water for future generations, we’ll be here to support you every step of the way. Together, we can build a better future for our customers, our region, and our planet.
Real purpose, real support, real opportunities. Come and join the Thames Water family. Why choose us? Learn more.
We’re committed to being a great, diverse, and inclusive place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and want to ensure you feel supported throughout the recruitment process. If you need any adjustments, whether that’s extra time, accessible formats, or anything else just let us know, we’re here to help and support.
When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business and meet colleagues.
Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
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