Transport for London
Quantity Surveying – Surface Transport
- Placements
- Further education and professional studies
- Duration
- Entry requirements and minimum criteria
- Applications
Join our commercial team within Surface Transport and you'll play a part in delivering some of the most exciting and challenging highway and civil engineering projects in London.
You could be involved with estimating and assessing preliminary costs, considering the form of procurement through which projects are delivered, preparing the tender documents or financially controlling schemes once they make it to site.
In short, you'll have the opportunity to become involved with all aspects of a project through its life cycle to enable you to obtain Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) professional membership.
Placements
As with all TfL schemes, the placements you take part in will be shaped to your individual development needs, but will be centred on the following areas:
- Legal
- Contracts and Procurement
- Costing and estimating
- Commercial Management
- Project Management
- Risk Management
- Design
- Health and Safety
Further education and professional studies
Placements throughout your two-year programme will equip you to gain professional membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). The opportunity to enrol in further areas of study through an MSc or MA will also will considered, with TfL providing full sponsorship.
Duration
Two years
Entry requirements and minimum criteria
You'll need a minimum 2:1 in a 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 in any specific experience.
- Graduate in appropriate discipline with appropriate classification - 2:1
- Degree accredited by RICS
- Ability to work on site where necessary
- High standards of written communication, verbal, numerical and inductive (ability to deal with ambiguous data) reasoning
- High standards of verbal communication
- Skilled in analysis and problem solving
- Keen on embracing change
- Collaborative, and keen to share information, knowledge and skills
- A strong focus on internal and external customers
- A commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion
- Keen to seek out new opportunities for learning and career progression and challenges
- Be able to identify the goals of any project and work steadily towards them
- Able to take a structured and methodical approach to any task, identifying priorities and setting deadlines
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
Applications close midday on 10 February 2012.
Applications
