1 DAIRY YARD
STAR STREET, WARE, SG12 7DX

A G SURVEYING LTD - Quantity Surveyor Apprentice

Salary: £21,000 a year
Working Pattern: Full Time
Contract Type: Apprenticeship
Hours: 39
Closing Date: Thu 01 Jan 2026 - 11:59 pm UTC
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A G SURVEYING LTD - Quantity Surveyor Apprentice

Summary

Join our company at a time of continued growth. We have a big ethos of growing and promoting from within. You will be working with the business owners and gain experience working in different sectors and for various types of contractors and clients. The individual is likely to assist with both estimating and quantity surveying for the business.

Annual wage: £21,000 a year
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Training course: Chartered surveyor (degree) (level 6)

Hours
Monday - Thursday, between 08:30 - 17:30 & Friday, 08:30 - 16:30.
39.0 hours a week

Possible start date: Friday 30 January 2026

Duration: 5 Years

Positions available: 1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

The roles and duties will evolve over time as experience is gained and are dependent on the type and size of projects being worked on. However, below are a few key areas we anticipate the individual will initially be involved in:

Estimating & Cost Planning:

  • Undertaking detailed take off from drawings using Procore, specifications and design documents
  • Ensuring all works captured within all tender documentation is included within and added to the pricing schedule

Subcontractor Procurement:

  • Setting up, updating and management of procurement schedules for each project
  • Preparing detailed scope of works and / or measured pricing schedules, and / or marked-up drawings per package of works using Procore
  • Preparing and coordinating tender enquiries
  • Communicating with subcontractors and suppliers to ensure prices are received and are compliant, coordinating queries as appropriate
  • Analysing and comparing tender returns
  • Normalising tender returns and raising, coordinating, and dealing with queries
  • Negotiating with preferred contractors

Material Procurement:

  • Extracting relevant specifications and design information
  • Preparing and coordinating enquiries
  • Analysing and comparing tender returns
  • Normalising tender returns and raising, coordinating, and dealing with queries

Live Project QSing:

  • Assist with commercial reporting
  • Assisting with determining and valuing variations
  • Assisting with determining and valuing payment applications
  • Attending and minuting progress meetings
  • Assisting with Contract Administration

General:

  • Assisting with commercial and administrative tasks
  • General administrative duties within the office
  • Design Coordination

Where you’ll work

1 DAIRY YARD
STAR STREET
WARE
SG12 7DX

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY HIGHER EDUCATION CORPORATION

Your training course

Chartered surveyor (degree) (level 6)

Your training plan

  • BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying
  • Delivered as part-time, taught programme with day release at Anglia Ruskin University's Chelmsford campus

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English and Maths (grade C/4)

Desirable qualifications

A Level in:

  • Any (grade 112 UCAS Points (BBC))
  • Any (grade 112 UCAS Points (DMM))

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Problem solving skills

Other requirements

TO APPLY - Please send a CV and covering letter with your full name and address, to be sent to: [email protected]

About this company

AG Surveying is a consultancy firm providing Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Estimating and Procurement services to contractors, developers and clients for projects predominately in in Hertfordshire, Essex & London.

https://agsurveying.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

As a business, we hold 6-month performance reviews with all staff and prepare development plans where appropriate to ensure all staff feel valued. We also have 3 monthly team-building events and all support one another and work closely as a team.

After this apprenticeship

The intention is for the candidate to progress to a Senior Quantity Surveyor and be responsible for Quantity Surveying some of our works in the year to come. How quickly they get there is down to the individual, as we do not hold people back as a business and prefer to give people as much opportunity and responsibility as early as possible.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

A G SURVEYING LTD

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000346232.

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Closes on Thursday 01 January 2026

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