Quantity Surveyor
WAVU, Dublin
As a Quantity Surveyor, you’ll be at the heart of an exciting new West Apron Vehicle Underpass project at Dublin Airport. Join our dynamic team and make a difference!
The Quantity Surveyor will support project leaders in generating a high standard of service delivery, achieving successful outcomes, capturing and sharing knowledge across projects and enhancing our culture of innovation.
The role holder will manage contract administration, risk management and negotiation effectively to deliver the agreed profitability and cash projections, informing line management and seeking guidance as and when required.
About Us: At Sacyr UK and Ireland, we’re passionate about creating a better world through our projects. As a Quantity Surveyor, you’ll play a crucial role in our team. Our workplace is inclusive, diverse, and designed for everyone to thrive. We don’t just say it – we live it, we’re proud to have been named a Sunday Times Top 100 Employer in both 2024 and 2025, and to be accredited as a Living Wage and Disability Confident employer.
About you: If your values align with ours, and you are passionate about being part of our team, read on! Our team is professional, great communicators, adaptable, full of integrity and generally a fabulous bunch. If this sounds like you, and you can demonstrate the required skills and experience, we want to hear from you.
Our benefits:
- Inclusive work environment, Sunday Times Top 100 Employer 2024 and 2025
- 34 days holiday
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Financial, Emotional and Physical Wellbeing Support
- Ongoing professional development opportunities
- Professional membership support
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount scheme
- Language lessons
- Life insurance
- Sick pay
- Wellness Your Way programme
- Annual Health Checks
Key Responsibilities include:
- Communicate and liaise with System sub-contractor.
- Advise on contractual issues.
- Ensure commercial compliance of current contracts, protecting the position of the company.
- Report to Commercial Manager/ Project Director and other appropriate stakeholders about the subcontract status.
- Assist senior staff in pricing variations – this will not just be mechanical and electrical scope.
- Cost control.
- Support the Commercial and Contract Managers with monthly project cost reports and progress reports.
- Provide provision, when required to the rest of the team on managing other subcontract lifecycles, participating in procurement, tendering, contract administration, variations and work packages management.
- Measurement of quantities.
- Preparation of monthly financial statement of anticipated Final Account detailing status of variations (budget, submitted, agreed), in conjunction with project management.
- Assist with monthly work in progress reports in conjunction with project manager/ project director.
Essential criteria:
- Legal right to work in the Republic of Ireland
- Willingness to complete a 5-year background screening as part of the hiring process
- Minimum BSc in Quantity Surveying or equivalent
- 4 years post graduate experience in a similar role
- Previous NEC contract experience (NEC3 or NEC4 option C)
- Demonstrable negotiation and presentation skills
- Ability to work on own initiative, prioritise work to deadlines and pay attention to detail.
- Excellent time management and organisation ability combined with good problem-solving skills.
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills and the ability to effectively analyse and communicate complex ideas and information to a range of audiences and stakeholders.
- Familiar with IT software in particular the Microsoft suite; to include Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint, Word.
Desirable criteria:
- Previous experience as a Quantity Surveyor on building and/or civils projects
- Knowledge of the Spanish and/or Portuguese language
- Knowledge of the ISO 9001 and ISO 14001
In return, you will be working on a high profile 'once in a lifetime' project where you will be supported by a collaborative team in a learning environment. We offer local and global career opportunities and whilst this project is based in Dublin our teams are truly global!
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We are open to making reasonable adjustments to enable all applicants to participate in the recruitment process. Please let us know if you need any adjustments as part of the application process.
Ready to be part of our transformative journey? Apply now and contribute to building a better future!
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- Department
- Engineering and infrastructure
- Locations
- Dublin
- Function
- Aprovisionamiento // Procurement, Ingeniería y Área Técnica // Engineering and technical area