Senior Quantity Surveyor
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Location: Edinburgh, East Dunbartonshire, Glasgow, Motherwell – with travel
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VacanciesWhether you already have a clear career path in mind or you’re still exploring your options after finishing your degree, our graduate programme is tailored to provide you with unparalleled opportunities for professional development, ensuring you grow both personally and professionally.
At Morgan Sindall Construction, we believe that technical skills are important; but even more critical to your success is the willingness to learn, ability to work in a team, be open to change and demonstrate motivation. After all, your journey with us goes beyond just a job – your contributions will shape the future of communities and the infrastructure around us – that’s something to be proud about right?
Due to the nature of our work, many of our graduates work in site-based roles in disciplines such as site or project management, quantity surveying and design management. However, a number of our graduates are also building their careers offsite in roles not always associated with the construction industry including bid management, marketing and business development. As we evolve, we are also seeing an increasing number of graduates join us on green-skills roles, to help us with the development of our sustainability and social value agendas.
Regardless of their role you’ll be interested to know that not all our graduates have joined us from a typically construction-based qualification or background, having found that the experience developed in STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) or creative or management qualifications such as Business, English or Design have provided them with the interdisciplinary skills to kick start a career in construction.
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Get in touchWe typically recruit for the following year’s Graduate Programme and our planned summer and year out placements between September – December of the year before you are due to join us.
Ad hoc placements, site-based and virtual work experience may be able to be accommodated if the team has availability at any given time of the year.
Check out what we’re currently recruiting for below or contact us with your location, and why you would like to join us and we’ll refer to you to the relevant team.
Andre is a Graduate Site Manager. When we asked Andre why he chose construction he said:
Initially, I wanted to be an Architect, as I was very good at drawing using AutoCAD and technical tools. However, I have a very keen eye for detail and the ability to understand drawings which I found to be more beneficial onsite. Construction is a big part of my culture, as in the Caribbean we are more hands on. I liked the idea of being out on site rather than being full time in the office.
Andre is enjoying working on the University of Gloucester City Campus project at the moment and told us what it means to him:
It means a lot to be part of a project that is bringing so much Social Value and Sustainability benefits for the community. This is one of the first major refurbishment projects for the business which is therefore a potential steppingstone for more similar projects. There is still a long way to go on the project however I am enjoying it and we are progressing as well as we can.Close
George joined the business in August 2023 as a year out site manager.
After doing some labouring work with his Uncle on a construction site, George decided to study construction at Nottingham Trent university. George's placement year has involved rotating around different departments in Morgan Sindall to gain a variety of experience, and he is currently working on the University of Gloucestershire project in the centre of Gloucester .
On this project (University of Gloucestershire) I am constantly seeing new stuff, and I did really enjoy the rotation period that Morgan Sindall did in the first three months of my placement. I went around all the different departments, whether it was estimating or proposals or preconstruction, that was a great idea and a nice experience seeing how all the different parts of the business come together to make one.
I’ve had days going back to the university helping at careers fayres. I’ve been lucky to go to a black-tie event with the business development team. I’ve done multiple site visits to different sites which is great, whether it’s education, or it could be healthcare or waste transfer to stations – seeing a big variety of different sites. I’d just say the overall placement has been exciting so far.Close
Bori has a passion for making positive change to the current climate and felt that working in the built environment sector was one of the best places to really make a difference.
After graduating from the University of Obuda with an Environmental Engineering Technology degree, Bori joined the Morgan Sindall Social Value and Sustainability team.
Since then, Bori has been involved with the implementation of CarboniCa – our in-house developed carbon reduction tool - across our sites and is this year’s lead on the 10 Tone Challenge where she is working with the project teams to come up with innovative solutions to make more sustainable switches to carbon friendly materials and equipment.
As part of her graduate programme, Bori has also spent time on site on her 6-month rotation, learning all aspects of construction and the business which has informed her understanding of where we can create new, greener and achievable outcomes for Morgan Sindall and the wider construction industry.
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