Apprentice Quantity Surveyor - Level 4 - Greenwich

OCU Group

Greenwich (SE10 9QX)

Closes on Friday 27 March 2026

Posted on 30 January 2026

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Summary

You’ll assist with cost planning, budgeting, and forecasting for live projects while helping to prepare estimates, measurements, and tender documents. You’ll support the monitoring of project spend and overall financial performance, working closely with contractors, suppliers, and project teams to ensure value for money.

Wage

Competitive

Competitive wage offered

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Training course
Construction quantity surveying technician (level 4)
Hours
Monday to Friday, 8.00am - 5.00pm.

40 hours a week

Start date

Monday 7 September 2026

Duration

3 years

Positions available

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

  • Assist with cost planning, budgeting, and forecasting for live projects
  • Help prepare estimates, measurements, and tender documents
  • Support the monitoring of project spend and overall financial performance
  • Work closely with contractors, suppliers, and project teams to ensure value for money

Where you'll work

OCU
Greenwich
SE10 9QX

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

SOUTH BANK COLLEGES

Training course

Construction quantity surveying technician (level 4)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Health and Safety: Apply health and safety issues to all activities.
  • Sustainability: Demonstrate application of the principles of sustainability.
  • Construction Technology: Assist in the implementation of the most appropriate solutions for construction projects
  • Contracts: Be able to apply different types of contracts to different situations.
  • Procurement: Assist in the selection of and negotiation with specialist contractors for a construction project.
  • Cost control: Assist in the measurement and costing of construction works during a project.
  • Financial reporting: Assist in the preparation of financial reports, cash flow and cost forecasts for a construction project.
  • Administration: Assist in the collection, collation and storage of relevant data and its analysis.

Training schedule

This training schedule has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

A Level in:

A Levels or equivalent, typically 2 A Levels (grade A-C)

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
  • Problem solving skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Team working

About this employer

OCU Group is one of the UK’s fastest-growing companies, delivering complex projects across power, utilities, water, and digital infrastructure. With sales growing five-fold to £1.1bn over the last five years, we are expanding both organically and through acquisitions, including recent growth in Australia and New Zealand.

For experienced professionals, OCU offers meaningful responsibility, the chance to influence delivery, and career progression in a business that invests in capability, autonomy, and high performance.

For those starting their careers, we provide structured routes through apprenticeships, graduate programmes, and training academies, with hands-on experience on real projects and supportive mentors to help you learn and progress.

We value safety, integrity, collaboration, and doing things properly and we support people who want to make a tangible impact.

https://www.ocugroup.com/ (opens in new tab)

Disability Confident

Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

Anyone looking to build a career in Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management.

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

SOUTH BANK COLLEGES

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000011955.

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Closes on Friday 27 March 2026

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