Apprentice Quantity Surveyor
REALM PROJECTS LIMITED
Nottinghamshire (NG19 7JY)
Closes in 16 days (Friday 15 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 29 July 2025
Contents
Summary
Are you a driven and ambitious individual looking for a career as a Quantity Surveyor within the construction industry? Do you love collaborating with multiple stakeholders and possess excellent communication skills? We are looking for a Trainee Quantity Surveyor to join our commercial team.
- Wage
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£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
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The company operates a discretionary bonus scheme payable in December each year based upon performance of the individual and business as a whole
- Training course
- Chartered surveyor (degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 8.30am - 5.00pm (half an hour for lunch)
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 8 September 2025
- Duration
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5 years
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Reviewing tender documents & assessing scope of works
- Working within the commercial team in pricing tender requests for clients ensuring that any deadline is met
- Taking off drawings accurately to ensure correct quantities and details are established
- Obtaining competitive quotations from suppliers in a timely manner
- Issuing pricing enquiries to sub-contractors ensuring that comprehensive detail is provided to enable accurate pricing
- Following up the above making sure that quotes are both accurate and received by any deadline stipulated
- Assist in placing sub contract orders where applicable
- Assist with site surveys as and when required
- Attending briefing, pre-start and handover meetings as and when required
- Assist the Project Management team in preparing programmes for jobs
- Provide assistance with the preparation and submission of final accounts, variations and interim payment requests
Where you'll work
Millenium Business Park Mansfield
Nottinghamshire
NG19 7JY
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY
Training course
Chartered surveyor (degree) (level 6)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Information management - Provide data, information and advice for clients relevant to the surveying discipline.
- Health and safety - Recommend solutions to ensure safe and secure working environments.
- Construction technology - Provide advice relating to the construction technology of buildings and their materials.
- Law - Negotiate and agree terms for acquisition/disposal of property, standard forms of building contracts or other property related contracts and liaise with legal advisers.
- Consultancy - Manage instructions from engagement to completion.
- Building surveys – Undertake inspections and surveys and provide advice and recommendations to clients relating to building surveys.
- Prepare designs and specifications – Carry out the preparation of the design and specification of building projects from outline proposals to completion of the design and specification process.
- Administer contracts – Implement administrative procedures for the running of a construction project. Issue instructions, deal with payment provisions, manage variation procedures and deal with completion and possession issues and the issuing of certificates.
- Valuation and appraisal - Prepare capital and rental valuations of land and property for a range of formal and appraisal purposes and prepare client reports.
- Land, property and planning law - Negotiate solutions to issues affecting both owners and occupiers of land and property including at least two of management, sales, lettings, purchase and/or planning.
- Inspection and measurement – Undertake inspections of land and property and prepare related reports and advice. Use appropriate instrumentation to take measurements of land and property. Apply the appropriate guidance and use the appropriate basis to undertake measurements. Prepare and present measurements in an appropriate manner.
- Tendering and procurement - Provide advice and recommendations as to appropriate procurement routes and manage the tendering processes relevant to them.
- Costing and cost planning of construction works - Undertake the detailed quantification, costing and cost planning of complex construction works.
- Manage efficiencies of construction contracts – Manage the construction phase of a construction project. Carry out life cycle costing and apply value engineering processes. Prepare data, reports and forecasts.
- Information management - Provide data, information and advice for clients relevant to the surveying discipline.
- Health and safety - Recommend solutions to ensure safe and secure working environments.
- Construction technology - Provide advice relating to the construction technology of buildings and their materials.
- Law - Negotiate and agree terms for acquisition/disposal of property, standard forms of building contracts or other property related contracts and liaise with legal advisers.
- Consultancy - Manage instructions from engagement to completion.
Training schedule
- Chartered Surveyor Level 6 Degree Apprenticeship (Quantity Surveyor Pathway) BSc (Hons) plus APC with RICS to become chartered.
- One day per week during term time for in person teaching on NTU City campus
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
A Level in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
Other requirements
Helpful if candidate has a clean full driving licence or intention to gain this.
About this employer
Realm are a medium sized Mansfield based bespoke joinery manufacturer and interior fit out contractor acting as a main contractor and specialist sub-contractor in the museum, commercial, leisure and retail fit out sectors working throughout the UK and internationally. The business has been operating for 25 years and is financially stable with eighty employees operating from 65000ft2 office and factory premises
After this apprenticeship
- Offering ongoing support to broaden knowledge through continual professional development and training in project management
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY
Graeme Blakey
graeme@realm-projects.com
07950 590198
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000334378.
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Closes in 16 days (Friday 15 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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