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Assistant Quantity Surveyor / Quantity Surveyor Opportunities for Ex-Military Candidates

United Kingdom
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Assistant Quantity Surveyor / Quantity Surveyor – Galliford Try / Morrison Construction 

Location – Vacancies available across the whole of the UK

Purpose of the role:

Join Galliford Try and bring your military skills to a civilian career. We have commercial opportunities for Assistant and Quantity Surveyors across our business where you’ll support administration, reporting, and performance on major projects or multiple schemes. Your leadership, discipline, and attention to detail will help us deliver projects safely and efficiently while building a rewarding career in construction.

With vacancies across a range of business units including highways, water (environment), specialist services and building, there are opportunities to work on projects that genuinely make a difference to communities across the UK.

What you will be doing:

  • Support a safe and compliant working environment across projects.

  • Manage subcontract packages, including terms, pricing, programmes, and interim assessments.

  • Issue and manage commercial notices, changes, and Compensation Event Quotations in line with contracts.

  • Prepare, submit, and agree monthly applications with clients and monitor project expenditure.

  • Maintain detailed cost plans, schedules of subcontractor liabilities, and Oracle-based analyses.

  • Liaise with site, operational, and engineering teams to ensure accurate records and reporting.

  • Produce monthly reports, Cost Value Reconciliations, and interpret expenditure data for decision-making.

  • Contribute contractual expertise to estimating, bid teams, and project meetings, driving value and profit.

What we can offer in return: With an impressive order book of over £4.1 billion we are one of the industry’s leading principal contractors, affording you the opportunity to work on some of the UK’s most exciting projects offering you stability as well as the chance to stretch your capabilities and realise long held career goals. You will be joining diverse teams working at a high professional level with exceptional levels of commitment. With an ambitious strategy, we’re poised for further growth and success, so if you’re committed, talented and enthusiastic, Galliford Try is the right place for you. 

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We are committed to maintaining the physical and mental wellbeing of all our people, through our ‘Be Well’ programme which offers discounts on certain products, advice and support for a range of issues. 

We invest in high-quality training for employees of all levels, from our leadership development framework to our apprenticeship programmes. Through our Career Paths initiative, individuals receive tailored training and support to fulfil their potential.

Our industry is all about creating talented teams that excel in their areas of expertise. As an employer, we know you are most motivated to give your best when you feel valued and engaged.

Our Agile Working programme empowers you with flexibility in when, where and how you work. Where appropriate, site and office-based employees can take advantage of a wide variety of working practices, offering different amounts of structure, regularity and flexibility to suit your needs as well as those of your wider team.

Our benefits:

We put our people first and our benefits package reflects that by offering a comprehensive range of attractive options to help support your career on top of a competitive salary.

  • Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with years of service, plus the opportunity to purchase further holidays
  • A wide range of corporate discounts
  • Cycle to Work schemes
  • Comprehensive pension plan
  • Competitive family leave policy
  • Regular Save as You Earn share purchase scheme
  • Private medical scheme options are available for all salaried employees and our employee assistance programme also provides free 24/7 support to those who need it
  • Paid for yearly membership to one recognised professional association relevant to your role

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About us: Galliford Try is one of the UK’s leading construction groups with a vision to continuously be a people-orientated, progressive business, driven by our values to deliver lasting change for our stakeholders and the communities we work in.

Additional Information:

Galliford Try welcomes applications from candidates who would like to work full-time, reduced hours or flexibly and this will be discussed in more detail as part of the recruitment process.  

We encourage, and would be grateful if, you could confirm any requirements we can reasonably fulfil to make this application a positive experience for you. 

Don’t meet every requirement of the role? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Galliford Try, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement of the role, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

As a Disability Confident employer, we have committed to offer an interview to any candidate with a long-term health condition or disability that meet the essential criteria for the advertised position. Please contact the Resourcing Partner listed within the job advert if you believe this applies to you. We will also take the opportunity to discuss any adjustments required for your interview.

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Skills

Quantity surveying
Commercial management
Contract administration
Cost planning
Subcontract management
Reporting
Financial analysis
Risk management
Project management
Communication
Leadership
Attention to detail
Oracle
Cost value reconciliation

Location

United Kingdom

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