Trainee Quantity Surveyor

We are currently seeking a Trainee Quantity Surveyor to join a well-established main contractor, based in Preston, who operate on the North West region. Our client works predominately within the new build and refurbishment sector, working across multiple sectors such as; education, public and leisure buildings, blue light, healthcare and maintenance. The successful individual will be joining an experienced preconstruction team where you'll assist with the running of the department.

• Collaborating with the surveying and estimating teams to prepare tenders for subcontractors, ensuring timely submission.
• Supporting the smooth administration of a dynamic estimating team and providing assistance to team members.
• Coordinating with estimating team members, subcontractors, and suppliers to help prepare tender bids.
• Managing the receipt and organisation of drawings and plans, including maintaining drawing registers.
• Conducting site visits as required.
• Handling electronic tender and contract documents, as well as other digital communications, throughout the tender and bid process.
• Assisting and coordinating with other company employees and management as needed.

• Full driving license
• A construction related degree, preferably in quantity surveying
• Good communication skills
• Confident and outgoing
• Computer literate
• Good time keeping
• Be able to work as a team or under their own initiative
• Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines

• Salary dependent on experience, with the typical industry range for this position being 25k - 32k
• 24 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Staff holidays buy/sell scheme
• Additional staff holiday incentives
• Cycle to work scheme
• Death in service cover
• Pension
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental health support
• Training and Developments Programmes

Bennett and Game Recruitment are a multi-disciplined technical recruitment agency based in Chichester, West Sussex operating across the UK with specialist teams covering a range of industries. We are acting as a Recruitment Agency in relation to this vacancy, and in accordance with GDPR by applying you are granting us consent to process your data, and contact you in relation to this application and the services we offer.