Assistant Quantity Surveyor

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  • Ref:
    81404
  • Location:
    Plymouth
  • Employment:
    Full time

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Jessica Mercel

jess.mercel@mitie.com

+44 116 261 5017

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Assistant Quantity Surveyor

Location: HM Naval Base, Devonport Royal Dockyard, Plymouth
Hours: Full Time, Monday to Friday

Join Our Team!

We're looking for a detail-driven and ambitious Assistant Quantity Surveyor to support a wide range of projects across a secure estate. If you're ready to grow your career in a dynamic environment, we want to hear from you!

Your Role Includes:

 Pre-Construction

  • Preparing and issuing tender enquiries
  • Reviewing tender returns for accuracy and value
  • Creating cost estimates (ROCs) for proposed works
  • Supporting scope and pricing document development
  • Engaging with suppliers for competitive tenders

Commercial Reporting & Risk

  • Assisting with monthly cost reports and forecasts
  • Monitoring budgets and flagging issues
  • Updating risk registers with commercial insights
  • Supporting post-project reviews

Live Project Delivery

  • Supporting projects from award to completion
  • Preparing and submitting payment applications
  • Managing change control and subcontract orders
  • Tracking costs, budgets, and cash flows
  • Suggesting cost-saving initiatives
  • Maintaining accurate records in systems like Maximo & Coupa

What We're Looking For:

Essential Skills

  • Experience in QS, commercial, procurement, or project support
  • Understanding of tendering and commercial documentation
  • Strong communication and numeracy skills
  • Organised and deadline-driven
  • Proficient in MS Excel & Word 

Desirable Extras

  • Experience with MOD contracts or secure sites
  • Familiar with CAFM systems
  • Knowledge of NEC or JCT contracts
  • Interest in project management
  • Studying towards QS qualifications (HNC, degree, RICS)
 

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Jessica Mercel at jess.mercel@mitie.com.

Since 1987, Mitie’s 76,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

Join our Mitie Team.

Together our diversity makes us stronger.

 
 

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HM Naval Base - Plymouth - Devonport Royal Dockyard
HM Naval Base, Devonport Royal Dockyard, Plymouth, Devon, England, PL1 4SG
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