Apprentice Quantity Surveyor - 2024 - Peterborough

As a Trainee Quantity Surveyor, you will be part of our commercial team, where you will learn to manage all cost related aspects of construction projects. We will make it our ambition to prepare you for a successful and rewarding career in commercial management.

What you'll be doing:

As a Quantity surveying apprentice, you'll gain exposure to various elements of the commercial end to end process, consisting of the controlling and managing of costs on construction projects, working with a whole range of people within the business to make sure that everyone works to quality standards and helps keep the project on track. You will liaise with the client, prepare tenders and contracts, work with subcontractors, valuing completed works, managing budgets.

As an apprentice, you'll be supported in developing the key knowledge, skills, and behaviours to advance your experiences at work and start your career. You will complete both the Construction Quantity Surveying Technician (L4) and the Construction Quantity Surveyor Degree Apprenticeship Top-up (L6) and achieve a BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying degree. This will be achieved through a day release programme of study delivered from Anglia Ruskin University's new campus in Peterborough.

To find out more about this apprenticeship route visit Construction Quantity Surveyor - BSc (Hons) - ARU

• 4 x GCSE or equivalent, including Maths and English (Grade A-C/9-4) essential


• Other UCAS Tariff points A levels, BTEC or Level 3s (Grade 112 points / BBC / DMM) essential


• You will need to be comfortable working with various computer software packages, numerical data and learning to understand legal contracts. All training will be provided.


• Able to work as part of a team


• Curious, self-motivated and enthusiastic to learn


• Organised and reliable


• You must have lived in the UK in the last 3 years and have the right to work in the UK to be eligible for an apprenticeship. We are not able to proceed with applications that require visa sponsorship.


• We are not able to proceed with applications from candidates that have already achieved a degree in any discipline.
  
  Skanska, one of the world's leading project development and construction groups, is an inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build a better society.


Drawing on our Scandinavian heritage, we are green, innovative, and progressive. We bring together people and technology, as part of our objective to make construction a safer and more collaborative industry.

At Skanska, we believe in our Purpose: we build for a better society. Through our Values of care for life, commit to customers, be better - together, and act ethically and transparently you will enable us to deliver our Purpose., Anglian Water is the largest water company in the UK, a complex and exciting organisation delivering the best possible service to 6 million customers. The Anglian Water Alliances support the business with a whole range of infrastructure and non-infrastructure projects to upgrade the Anglian Water assets. You can see the partners, including Skanska, involved in the Anglian Water Alliances here: Project partners (anglianwater.co.uk)

Our purpose here at Anglian Water is to 'bring environmental and social prosperity to the region we serve through our commitment to Love Every Drop.' Come and join us and make a difference to the future of all our communities.

We look forward to hearing from you!


• Funding and support to help you achieve a qualification in Quantity Surveying - you will be able to progress to a level 6 degree qualification after completing level 4.


• You will be a part of a community of 100+ apprentices as well as wider Skanska


• Starting salary: £16,800 to £23,860 depending on the apprenticeship level and your age.


• We want you to do well and will support you to have a meaningful career beyond the apprenticeship


• Support and guidance from experienced leaders and teams


• Professional and social events


• Opportunities to volunteer in the local community at least one day per year


• Support to achieve your professional accreditation and expenses covered for the professional membership of your choice


• Access to our employee networks - these include: Womxn's, Ability, Pride network, O.N.E (Origins Nationality Ethnicity, Military and Mental Health networks.


• My Rewards - an array of retail, dining, well-being and travel discounts


• Cycle to work scheme


• Cost of living support through salary finance


• Flex-It programme to achieve a work life balance where possible


• You would be joining a mental health aware organisation where we offer wellbeing support through our employee assistance programme; mental health ambassador network and awareness discussions.