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Quantity Surveying Summer Placement Scheme

Providing Value for Money in everything we do for Transport for London

Making smart decisions. Continuing the conversation.

Salary

£27,029 pro rata, per annum. (in-line with the London Living Wage)

Location

London/Hybrid

Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4 week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements

The role will be based in London. Hybrid working (typically working from home no more than 50% of the time over a 4-week period) will be the default arrangement going forward, although some courses and placements will require full-time attendance. We will consider all requests in a reasonable manner. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements.

What we offer
You will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow:

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 & many more

Duration

12 weeks

Entry requirements

You'll need to be in your penultimate year of a RICS-accredited degree in Quantity Surveying or Commercial Management and be on track to achieve a minimum 2:2 classification.

Please be advised that should you be successful in getting an offer for this scheme, your offer will be subject to a satisfactory medical.

Successful candidates must have the right to work in the UK for the duration of the scheme, as at the start date. This role is not eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa scheme. If you do not have the right to work in the UK, or only have a right to work here for a limited time which is less than the duration of the scheme, you should be aware that TfL will be unable to sponsor you for this role.

Important Information:

At the end of your placement, you may have the opportunity to be considered for a graduate position through our fast-track process. In order to be eligible for a graduate position you must have the right to work in the UK for the duration of the graduate scheme. If you wish to be considered for a graduate role, you will be asked to confirm you have the right to work and provide evidence of your right to work in the UK for the duration of the graduate scheme as part of your internship application.

Start date:

14th June 2027

Job overview

Our Commercial teams focus on the budget of our projects, ensuring they continue to be successful and provide value for money. Quantity surveyors are at the heart of London's growth, transforming our infrastructure. We need the next generation of quantity surveyors to develop solutions for the London’s challenges, from mass urbanisation to diminishing resources. You'll work with internal and external stakeholders to ensure value for money is being achieved. 

What will I be doing?

As a Quantity Surveyor, you will work within a project team to upgrade our infrastructure (dating back to 1863), whilst ensuring we deliver an efficient service. As we look to modernise our assets, you'll be involved in crucial projects that contribute to the running of TfL. The projects you work on would help extend our network, improve our station capacity, purchase new trains and buses to enhance customer experience, improve the reliability of our network via technology updates, reduce times between services and developing new entrances in stations to reduce congestion and support London’s population. There are numerous people within TfL who started their journey on a scheme, that have gained their chartership into the RICS and are now valuable members of our senior leadership teams.

You will be embedded within a project team for the 12-week duration seeing how we deliver projects and working alongside Commercial Managers. You will also get the opportunity to visit other sites and gain a wider understand of the full Procurement and Commercial function.

Sustainability
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.

Where can this career take you?

Our Procurement and Commercial teams have the opportunity to make a significant impact. A career with us can be extremely varied with opportunities across the whole of company.

During this summer placement, you will gain meaningful and valuable work experience which will support you in your ongoing career journey towards becoming a fully-fledged Chartered Quantity Surveyor. At the end of your placement, you may have the opportunity to be considered for a graduate position through our fast-track process.

What training and support will you get?

You’ll be set clear objectives at the start of your placement and will complete mid placement and end of placement reviews with your placement manager. You will also have an independent sponsor for the duration of your placement to help ensure you benefit from a wider perspective of TfL Commercial.

What do we look for?

Our core values are extremely important to us, and we desire candidates who are:

Caring about our colleagues, our customers and our work

Open to each other, to new ideas and to working together

Adaptable to diverse needs and willing to innovate

Application process 

The application process consists of 5 steps, including online assessments which will need to be completed within an allocated time frame. We highly recommend that you read through this document thoroughly so that you can familiarise yourself with the process. 

Please click on this link for which describes each stage of the  Summer Internship Application Process

If you already hold your qualification certificates, please upload copies of these to your application. If you are due to sit final exams or need to replace any certificates, these must be provided at a later stage. 

You will receive information and guidance around each assessment stage as you progress through your application.

Please pay close attention to emails and deadlines provided noting you have 1 week to complete online assessments and we cannot re-issue these tests once the deadline passes.

Assessment centres for graduates and intern roles will take place from November-January, please note that many roles only have 1 assessment day and we are unable to guarantee alternative dates. We are conducting assessment centres in person and virtually (role dependent). 

Any applications from internal TfL staff should be made using your TfL email address. Any NPL staff should utilise their personal email address.

Our city. Made better by you.  

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. The clue is in the name, really. 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.  

Inclusive recruitment process  

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. In some circumstances, it may not be practical to offer an interview or assessment to every candidate who applies through the scheme and meet the minimum essential criteria; in these situations, we select candidates who best meet the minimum criteria for the job rather than interviewing all who meet them.  

Across all recruitment activity, we recognise that selection methods may vary depending on the nature and scale of the campaign and will be applied fairly, consistently and proportionately in line with our Disability Confident commitments.

In High Volume campaigns including Graduate, Apprentice and Intern recruitment the minimum criteria we set is achieving a pass mark in our first stage assessments, adopting a proportionate approach to the Disability Confident Offer an Interview scheme.  

Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments for any stages of the application process. 

Contact us

Contact the recruitment team on:

Phone: 0203 005 1680 (Monday to Friday between 09:00 and 17.30)

Email: earlycareerscampaigns@tfl.gov.uk

Quantity Surveying Summer Placement

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