Apprentice Quantity Surveyor
ELITE METALCRAFT CO LTD
MIDDLESEX (UB6 7LH)
Closes on Friday 29 May 2026
Posted on 9 December 2025
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Summary
In this role, you will work within the commercial team to report on and optimise commercial income and expenditure. The role includes supporting the senior Quantity Surveyors as well as working independently to successfully deliver contracts on time, to budget and with satisfied customers.
- Wage
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£22,800 a year
- Training course
- Construction quantity surveying technician (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday between 8am-5pm.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 15 June 2026
- Duration
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2 years 6 months
- Positions available
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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
- A combination of being responsible for fulfilling Quantity Surveying responsibilities on contracts which you will be allocated, and assisting other Quantity Surveyors fulfil their responsibilities. The balance of this will move to more independent responsibilities as your knowledge grows and is demonstrated.
- Prepare, submit and negotiate Applications for Payment, collecting the information from relevant sources, e.g. Project Mangers, delivery records, site measures etc.
- Collect and present information necessary for the accounting team to create VAT Invoices. Co-ordinate with the Accounting team to resolve queries and receive timely payment.
- Extract and organise information from various software programs to contribute to contract-specific and company-wide Monthly Reports and forecasts.
- Present and review cost information with the Operations team to optimise expenditure.
- Produce and send enquiries to subcontractors inviting them to tender. Assist Senior QS with compiling and negotiating subcontracts
- Receive and analyse supplier and subcontractor quotations, then determine with the Operations team which to proceed with based on financial and non-financial factors.
Where you'll work
9 WALMGATE ROAD
PERIVALE
MIDDLESEX
UB6 7LH
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY
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
- Cert HE Quantity Surveying.
- Day release delivery at ARU Chelmsford campus.
More training information
- Familiarisation with the company processes and procedures that relate to your role.
- Training and opportunities for guided self-learning on various software useful to QS and in construction, including: Excel, Microsoft Office Suite, Bluebeam, and commercial/document control programmes such as Coins, A-site, 4Projects, Aconnex, Webcontractor, Payapps, Cemar, Buildertrend, BIM and CAD viewing programs.
- Training and opportunity for guided self-learning on various topics relevant to Quantity Surveying such as Construction processes, Design responsibilities, Contracts, Disputes and, specific to our capabilities, knowledge of Steelwork, Metalwork and Architectural Finishes.
- Time to time, we do in-house team training sessions by internal staff or external experts.
- With the experience in the team, we will be able to help answer queries related to your outside-of-work learning.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
A Level in:
BTEC 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
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Team working
- Self-motivated
- Commercial awareness
Other requirements
The role will be based primarily in our office. There will be opportunities to visit sites for meetings or surveying/assessment. Travel costs will be reimbursed. Where situations arise, there may be opportunity for AQS to be based part or full time on site to get exposure to site operations and assist site teams organisationally.
Our workshop, including coatings facilities and logistics hub, is on the same premises as our office, so there will be opportunity and exposure to the construction processes happening.
Our design and project management teams are based in the same office, so you will be able to gather information directly and develop an understanding of design and operations processes.
About this employer
This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic business that is experiencing exceptional growth. At the Elite Metal Group we love what we do, and we enjoy working with people that are passionate about their role and the difference that they can make within our business and the built environment. We work across the full span of the construction industry. We have customers from small scale domestic builders, to highest quality architectural clients, to large scale commercial brown and green field construction, to national infrastructure projects. Depending on the client we can be engaged contractually as Main Contractor, Sub-contractor or even as Supplier for their installation and/or design. We will be engaged on hundreds of contracts at any given time, from the smallest being fulfilled within a day, all the way up to multi-year multi-million pound contracts.
It’s expected the successful candidate for the role will be involved with contracts in all divisions of the business but due to flexibility of the team and broad range of works we do and strengths within Commercial team and wider business, we will tailor the responsibilities of the apprentice to utilise strengths and/or provide exposure to areas for growth. You will report directly to our Commercial Manager and depending on the contracts you work on, to other Quantity Surveyors.
After this apprenticeship
Advancement to Intermediate Quantity Surveyor Role.
From the intermediate Quantity Surveyor role, you can expect internal or external advancement to Senior Quantity Surveyor, Commercial Manager or other roles where Quantity Surveying expertise overlaps, such as Building Surveying, Contracts Management, Procurement Management, Planning or Dispute Resolution.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000004420.
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Closes on Friday 29 May 2026
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