Quantity Surveyor

Ian Williams Ltd; South Shields; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit share

Private mileage & fuel card

Pension up to 7%

Life Insurance

Medical Insurance

Annual leave buy/sell up to 5–3 days

Wellbeing support

Training & development

Trade discounts

Job summary

Ian Williams Ltd is seeking a Quantity Surveyor based in Kent to support tendering, estimation and cost control for painting, decorating and refurbishment works across South London and Kent. You will work with the commercial and operational teams on a variety of housing, education and public-sector projects.

Based at our Tonbridge Unit, you will build client and supplier relations, deliver cost plans and ensure commercial viability from tender through to final account.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a similar estimating and commercially focused surveying role.
• Experience owning projects and contracts from tender and estimation stages through to final account.
• Experience of working for a painting or refurbishment contractor would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Measure and prepare cost estimates for contracts and tenders.
• Prepare cost value reconciliations for contracts and identify commercial risks and opportunities.
• Work with the Contracts Manager to ensure productivity targets are agreed and issued before contract start.
• Build strong client, supplier, and subcontractor relations for variations and progress discussions.
• Complete and analyse weekly site reporting with cost information (labour rates, budgets, progress).

Skills

Tendering

Estimating

Cost control

Client relations

Team collaboration

Job description

Following an internal promotion, our flourishing South London cyclical painting team is looking for a Quantity Surveyor based in Kent

We're looking for someone who shares our values and can support the long-term goals for stability and future growth in the South East. Honesty, integrity, and teamwork will be at the heart of what you do.

A driven, people-focused and entrepreneurial Quantity Surveyor, you'll join the dedicated commercial and operational team, which specialises in painting, decorating and associated planned refurbishment works in the South London and Kent areas. You'll be working for clients across a variety of sectors including commercial property development, education and social housing.

In return, being a critical part of our commercial success will bring you security.

Working collaboratively with your operational and commercial teams to make things happen together, you will go further with us, enabling a prosperous career with opportunities to develop, within a stable but organically growing business, holding people at its core.

At Ian Williams, we value our employees and offer an exceptional benefits package:

• Be part of the company profit share scheme (9.33% of base salary achieved last year)
• Private mileage scheme and a fuel card
• Let us help you prepare for your future with an enhanced employer pension contribution of up to 7% OR a savings scheme.
• Life, Medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Annual leave, but you may want longer or less, so buy up to 5 days or sell up to 3 days per year.
• Access to the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity to support your health and wellbeing, including free legal and financial advice.
• Annual pay reviews
• Enhanced maternity/ paternity pay.
• Training and development opportunities
• Trade discounts from our preferred suppliers for you and your friends and family, and Specsavers vouchers

The Quantity Surveyor role:

As a Quantity Surveyor you will either be based in our Tonbridge Unit, you will actively tender, estimate and measure onsite. We can offer a variety of works including established frameworks and core contracts with prestigious housing clients within the public, and residential sector as well as our property services covering retirement living, commercial and education sectors too. Specifically, you will:

• Measure and prepare cost estimates for contracts and tenders, highlighting any commercial risks and mitigation for these.
• Prepare cost value reconciliations for contracts, identifying commercial risks and opportunities to ensure correct contract planning from the outset.
• Work closely with the Contracts Manager to ensure productivity labour targets are agreed and issued before contract start, including direct labour incentives where possible.
• Build strong client, supplier, and subcontractor relations, to ensure any variations and progress of contracts are discussed and mutual, commercially viable solutions are sought, always.
• Complete and analyse weekly reporting from site, ensuring it has adequate cost information (including labour rates and performance expectations, budgets, value, progress, quality, and safety)

What will you bring as Quantity Surveyor?

• You will be inquisitive, organised, and honest as well as being a genuine ‘people person’ who thrives when collaborating with clients, trade teams and immediate colleagues. You will enjoy being part of a genuine team environment.
• Proven experience in a similar estimating and commercially focused surveying role. Experience of the commercial ownership of projects and contracts from tender and estimation stages through to final account. Experience of working for a painting or refurbishment contractor would be very advantageous.
• Experience of successfully managing commercially, a total value of works up to £2 million annually.
• Entrepreneurial spirit, with a key eye for identifying business opportunities, and areas for negotiation and better gains. You will describe yourself as commercial, analytical, and accurate in your approach.

About Ian Williams Ltd

Discover more about us by reviewing our website, and also through our social media platforms, along with LinkedIn, Indeed and Glassdoor.

The successful applicant will be required to complete a criminal records check. As an organisation assessing applicants’ suitability for positions which are included in the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order using criminal record checks processed through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), we comply fully with the code of practice and undertake to treat all applicants for positions fairly.

Ian Williams is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Diversity is more than a commitment at Ian Williams—it is the foundation of what we do. We are fully focused on equality and believe deeply in diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, and all other characteristics that make us different.

We reserve the right to shortlist prior to the closing date.

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