Assistant Quantity Surveyor / Quantity Surveyor Opportunities
Description
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
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.
Our benefits:
- 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
Paid for yearly membership to one recognised professional association relevant to your role
A full job description for these roles are available upon request.
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About Galliford Try Construction
Galliford Try is a UK construction company delivering lasting and positive changed for communities across the UK, working in new and innovatives ways across major building and infrastructure projects across healthcare, education, highways, renewable energy and more.
We operate as Galliford Try in England and Wales and as Morrison Construction in Scotland. Our excellent financial position combined with market leading positions in our chosen sectors means we are strongly positioned for our Sustainable Growth Strategy, to deliver sustainable profitable growth while improving the environment around us.
Growing Communities, Growing Careers, Growing Together.