Transport for London
Quantity Surveying – Surface Transport
Join our quantity surveying team within Surface Transport and you'll play a part in multi-disciplinary construction processes on highway and civil engineering projects. You could be involved with administrating contracts for road and highway structures renewal projects. You may be costing and financially controlling road schemes. You could find yourself compiling tenders and advising on construction materials and methodologies. In short, you'll benefit from a wealth of experience.
Placements
As with all schemes, the placements you take part in will be shaped to your individual development needs, but you could be working on:
- Costing and financially controlling road scheme designs
- Advising on construction methodologies and materials
- Contract administration for road renewal projects
- Compiling construction tenders
- Managing Health and Safety procedures
- Dealing with legal, insurance and risk management issues
You'll spend time working with key suppliers, and take part in placements in a range of departments across TfL, including:
- Legal
- Contracts and Procurement
- Health and Safety
- Project Management
- Design
- Risk Management
Further education and professional studies
The placements throughout your two-year programme will equip you with all you need to gain membership to the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) or equivalent. Then, when you've finished the scheme, you'll start a role that will give you the experience needed to gain RICS Chartered Quantity Surveyor status.
Duration
Two years.
Entry requirements
You'll need a minimum 2:2 in an RICS accredited degree or postgraduate diploma. An understanding and commitment to quantity surveying in this field is vital, although we're more interested in you as a person than any specific experience.
If you're successful you'll have to pass pre-employment checks before joining. These will include reference checks, qualifications checks, right to work in the UK and in some cases a medical and a Criminal Records Bureau check.
Applications
Our graduate applications open on Monday 5 October 2009 and we recruit on a rolling basis. This means that when we have sufficient number of applications to fill positions for particular schemes, we will then close that particular application track. Therefore, applying as early as possible is vital, particularly if you want to apply for your preferred scheme.
Applications
