Commercial Trainee

As a Commercial Trainee, you will support the Quantity Surveying team, assisting with cost management, procurement, and commercial control of projects. Under the guidance of the Senior Commercial team, you will contribute to the sourcing of materials and plant, while gaining exposure to budgeting, cost reporting, and financial management across developments.

If you do not already hold a relevant qualification you may also work towards a nationally recognised qualification with the Construction Quantity Surveying Technician Apprenticeship 

Key Responsibilities

• Comply with all Miller Homes policies and procedures and procurement plans
• Take off and preparing material schedules
• Expediting materials ordered as required
• Managing plant
• Processing requisition orders
• Bulk order information entry
• Material budget entry
• Material tender enquiries
• Maintenance of documentation library
• Day to day consumables for site
• General office duties for the Commercial team
• Resolving invoice queries in a timely manner ensuring, as far as possible, suppliers are paid in accordance with agreed trading terms.
• Collation of monthly plant hire data and communication of information to relevant Site Managers 
• Assisting Surveyors with monthly payments, subcontractor procurement, order management and costing reports

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Below you will find a range of skills and capabilities that will be required in the role, some of these you will already possess and some we will help you to develop in your programme.  

• Ability to plan, organise and monitor.  
• Financial management and cost control
• Basic knowledge of construction practice and materials commonly used in the House Building / Construction Industry 
• Excellent communication skills, IT, written and oral
• Building and maintaining good working relationships
• Positive can-do attitude to succeed and progress within the business
• Drive and ambition
• Resilient

Benefits

A robust development programme 
Annual performance development reviews
A market leading employee assistance programme 
Additional holiday purchase 
Life cover
Pension