Quantity Surveyor

Location: Livingston 
Job Type: Apprenticeship
What you need to know: Closes 15/08/2022

Our Quantity Surveyors are critical to ensuring business operations are as cost-effective as possible and as an Apprentice Quantity Surveyor with Clancy, not only will you learn from the best in our Commercial team, we have developed a bespoke rotational programme that will give you a full business overview.
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Your business orientation will also include estimating, health and safety, finance, plant and other key business areas.

We are all about growing and developing our own talent, which is evidenced by a significant number of our commercial professionals and senior managers who started at grassroots, but now have MBAs, MScs, BSCs, M/RICS, APCs etc.

You will be putting your innovative problem-solving and communication skills to good use, as you learn how to ensure costs are controlled and profits are maximised, all without compromising a slick service that delights our clients.

What will I learn?

• Generating weekly revenue and cost reports controlling submissions of daily completed jobs
• Producing 'Schedule of Rates'
• Reconciling Subcontractor costs and preparing payment certificates
• Liaising with Operations and Planning to monitor job progress and scope changes
• Reviewing scheme works to ensure targets are on track to be achieved
• Pricing completed jobs for high volume works
• Developing relationships with clients to reduce 'Work In Progress' days
• Analysing of weekly and monthly cost and revenue data

In return, we will offer you:

• A fully financed three-year programme via Herriot-Watt University, that will see you achieve:
• A BSc in Quantity Surveying, or equivalent QS Level 6 Diploma that is approved by the industry's recognised professional bodies, meeting educational requirements for the professional bodies' full membership or charted status
• Industry certificates in the Site Manager's Safety Training Scheme (SMSTS) and Site Environmental Awareness Training Scheme (SEATS)
• Pastoral support throughout, a guaranteed permanent position and clear career path to realise your commercial career ambitions

What qualification or qualities are required?

You’ll have a head start in this vacancy if you’ve completed a Foundation Apprenticeship in a related field. We’ll need you to provide evidence of your qualification and show you gained the relevant skills from your placement
We would like to offer this opportunity to someone with SQA Highers at AAAB or equivalent, A -Levels at ABC or BB, Scottish Baccalaureate Pass, International Baccalaureate, 29 points Foundation Apprenticeship in Civil Engineering in Conjunction with SQA Highers at AAB, A combination of qualifications totalling 96 SCQF credits at Level 6, or minimum 126 UCAS points.

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