Graduate Quantity Surveyor

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Role: Graduate Quantity Surveyor

Location: Elgin

Salary: £28,000 to £32,000 (dependant on Grade achieved and relevant industry experience)

Find your right‑fit early careers programme and get ready to work on real challenges that will grow your knowledge and confidence with every passing day. You’ll be surrounded by a team that gives you support and genuinely cares that you succeed as you start building your unique career  a Graduate Quantity Surveyor, you’ll be part of a team that’s doing incredible things – for ourselves, for the built environment around us, and for a truly sustainable future.

About the role:

Our Graduate opportunities could take you to any of our UK sites, where you’ll find out what we do and how we do it, contribute to projects, and grow your knowledge, network and responsibilities. In addition we will support you through your 2‑year Graduate Programme to develop and progress in your chosen career path. As a Graduate Quantity Surveyor, you will be responsible for:

• Preparing bills of quantities and schedules of works for pricing.
• Preparing and sending out Sub‑contract enquiries.
• Subcontract comparison and preparation of subcontract agreements.
• Attending, contributing to, and taking minutes of meetings as required.
• Preparing valuations with Clients, agreeing amounts for payment and ensuring invoices are prepared and issued.
• Re‑measuring work using site measurement and measurement from drawings.
• Re‑measurement of subcontract applications and processing subcontract payments.
• Informing Sub‑Contractors of contract variations.

What we need from you:

You’ll be degree‑educated or due to graduate in the summer of 2025 (2:1 desirable) in a relevant subject. You should be focused and highly motivated, as well as excellent at planning/prioritising and time‑management. You will also need to have excellent communication and interpersonal skills to build relationships with stakeholders, as well as the ability to cope under pressure.

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Our mix of prudence and diligence, care and attention to detail means that our customers have certainty and assurance in everything we do and trust us to deliver.

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Every challenge is an opportunity. We work collaboratively and focus on safety, productivity and quality to find solutions we can be proud of and that provide a positive, lasting benefit.

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In return, we offer a wide range of rewards and employee benefits such as:

• 33 days annual leave (pro‑ratio for part‑time or FTC positions, increases with length of service)
• Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Discounts (gym memberships, restaurants, days out etc.) with Hapi Rewards App
• Annual Flu Vaccine
• Access to E‑Learning
• Health & Wellbeing Support
• Life Management & Financial Support

When it comes to diversity and inclusion, we see things differently t’s why we’re working hard to create an environment where everyone can feel welcome, and where we can all be ourselves. We encourage applications from people of all races, ages, genders, religions, sexual orientations and more – so whoever you are, we hope you’ll see things our way, too.

If you’ve got what it takes to look at things differently, to find new perspectives, and to discover the extraordinary within the ordinary, we’d love to meet you. To apply for this role and to start seeing things our way, submit your CV.

Closing Date: 4th January 2026

This role will be subject to pre‑employment screening, including references. The level of screening may vary depending on role responsibilities and will be discussed at interview.