Trainee Quantity Surveyor

Permanent – 40 Hours per week

An exciting opportunity has arisen within our growing business for a Trainee Quantity Surveyor to join a dynamic team. Working closely with and responsible to the Senior Quantity Surveyor, we are looking for a proactive, talented and ambitious individual to join our expanding team.

This is a great opportunity within our business, as the successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop through getting involved in all stages of the project and your duties will include; managing site budgets, calculating and submitting variations, site visits to monitor subcontractor activity and build up payments and working closely with site teams and clients. The position will help you develop good knowledge of procurement and commercial management.

You will need to demonstrate excellent communication skills, strong numeracy, literacy and IT skills, the ability to work to tight deadlines and work well within a team.

We are open to applications from all candidates educated to a minimum of A level standard or equivalent. You will need to have experience and an interest in the construction industry and willing to work towards an apprenticeship degree in Quantity Surveying. With the ability to apply yourself in a professional manner, with the eagerness to learn from your peers, you’ll have excellent communication skills with the drive to learn and the ambition to build and progress on your career with Lovell.

Benefits

• Bonus entitlement based on company operating profit
• Holidays - 26 days
• Life Assurance
• Pension
• Private medical insurance
• Ability to purchase additional holiday
• Access to discount portal
• Cycle to Work scheme and the Lovell Way to EV
• Digital GP
• Employee assistance programme
• Sharesave scheme

As an Investors in People Gold award employer, Lovell is the UK’s leading provider of mixed tenure affordable homes and has a reputation for innovation and excellence in the delivery of high-quality housing development and regeneration projects.

We are committed to enhancing the communities in which we work, building quality homes for real people and looking after our own people; developing talent is key to achieving this. We understand that the success of our organisation comes from the strengths, skills and personalities of our people. Lovell is an equal opportunities employer who encourage and value diversity and inclusion within our teams.

The Lovell culture is one that has been successful for many years. It is based on empowering colleagues to make decisions at a regional and local level, and to challenge the status quo whilst working as one to achieve our goals and make Lovell a great place to work for all.