Apprentice Quantity Surveyor

The Role

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 teams, but we have also developed a bespoke rotational programme that will give you a full business overview.

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, 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.

Here are some of the things that you’ll get involved with…

• 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

What do you need?

We would like to offer this opportunity to someone with :

A combination of qualifications totalling 96 SCQF credits at level 6, or Minimum UCAS points

What you get in return...

A fully financed four-year programme via Heriot-Watt University, that will see you achieve :

A BSc in Construction and the Built Environment, meeting educational requirements for the professional bodies’ full membership or charted status

Pastoral support throughout, a guaranteed permanent position and clear career path to realise your commercial career ambitions

Our Company

Every day we work smarter, greener and use our imaginations.

Our purpose at Clancy is simple - we make life better for everyone’s growing families. We play a vital role in providing fresh drinking water and power to millions of homes and businesses and so much more.

We are one of the biggest family owned construction businesses in the UK and we care about our people, our clients and the environment.

What Next

You apply, and we respond within two weeks (we know how annoying it is not to hear anything back)! If you don’t receive feedback within that timescale, please don’t be afraid to chase us - one of our values is to do what we say we will do!

Benefits

In addition to helping you reach your career goals, a competitive salary, pension, healthcare and holiday allowance starting at 24-26 days per annum, we also offer perks including Clancy Xtras, our employee benefits programme with discounts for numerous well-known retailers such as Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Currys PC World and Vue Cinemas, cycle to work scheme as well as an Employee Assistance Programme.