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About the Role
This 12-week summer placement scheme in Quantity Surveying offers a valuable opportunity to work within Transport for London's Commercial teams, focusing on project budgets and ensuring value for money. Quantity surveyors are crucial to London's infrastructure development, and this role involves developing solutions for urban challenges, working with stakeholders, and contributing to projects that modernize assets and enhance customer experience.
Responsibilities
- Work within a project team to upgrade infrastructure.
- Ensure the delivery of an efficient service.
- Be involved in projects that contribute to the running of TfL.
- Work on projects that extend the network, improve station capacity, purchase new trains and buses, enhance customer experience, improve network reliability via technology updates, reduce service times, and develop new station entrances.
- Be embedded within a project team for the 12-week duration.
- Gain an understanding of the full Procurement and Commercial function.
- Work alongside Commercial Managers.
- Visit other sites to gain a wider understanding of the Procurement and Commercial function.
Requirements
- Must be in your penultimate year of a RICS-accredited degree in Quantity Surveying or Commercial Management.
- Must be on track to achieve a minimum 2:2 classification.
- Must have the right to work in the UK for the duration of the scheme.
- Offer is subject to a satisfactory medical.
- This role is not eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa scheme.
Skills
- Quantity Surveying
- Commercial Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Problem-solving
Location
- London
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid working (typically working from home no more than 50% of the time over a 4-week period)
- Full-time attendance may be required for some courses and placements
Experience Level
- Graduate
- Intern
Education Level
- RICS-accredited degree in Quantity Surveying or Commercial Management
Salary/Compensations
- £27,029 pro rata, per annum
Benefits
- Free travel on the TfL network for you and a nominee who lives in the same household
- Discounted national rail and Eurostar travel
- 30 days Annual leave (Pro rata plus public and bank holidays.)
- Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
- Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
About the Company
- TfL is a place that’s open to your ideas. Where you can make a tangible impact and see the positive results of your work on the people and places around you. It’s a place where you can thrive and achieve. Where you’re encouraged and enabled and empowered to feel pride in the work you do. We work together for a better London. A better place for everyone. Constantly improving and enhancing how we operate to shape a city of the future.
- Sustainability is intrinsic to TfL’s work ethos, and we ensure that we operate in a sustainable way to protect and regenerate the natural world.
- Sustainability is a focus in every stage of construction from looking at early feasibility designs ensuring the design is sustainable to ensuring the construction methods, techniques and the materials procured consider sustainability.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve. We believe that a diverse workforce enables us to deliver better services and outcomes. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible.
- As a Disability Confident Leader, we actively encourage applications from disabled people.
- As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we aim to offer an assessment or interview to candidates who apply via the scheme where the minimum essential criteria for skills, knowledge and experience has been met.
- Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments for any stages of the application process.