Quantity Surveyor

Ian Williams Ltd.; Watford; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 71,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit share scheme

Private mileage & fuel card

Pension contribution up to 7%

Life insurance

Annual leave – buy/sell options

Training and development opportunities

Specsavers vouchers

Job summary

Ian Williams Ltd. is seeking an experienced Quantity Surveyor to join its Watford-based commercial team. You will tender, estimate and measure onsite on established frameworks and core contracts with housing clients, schools and commercial properties.

You will contribute to cost planning, risk management and commercial ownership from tender to final account while collaborating closely with the Contracts Manager and project teams.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a similar estimating and commercially focused surveying role.
• Experience of the commercial ownership of projects from tender and estimation stages through to final account.
• Experience of working for a painting or refurbishment contractor would be advantageous.
• Experience of managing commercially a total value of works up to £2 million annually.

Responsibilities

• Measure and prepare cost estimates for contracts and tenders, highlighting risks and mitigation.
• Prepare cost value reconciliations for contracts and identify opportunities for planning from outset.
• Collaborate with the Contracts Manager to ensure productivity targets and incentives are set.
• Build strong client, supplier and subcontractor relations for variations and progress.
• Complete and analyse weekly site reporting with cost information on labour, budgets and progress.

Skills

Tendering

Estimating

Cost control

Communication

Negotiation

Organised

People skills

Job description

Ian Williams started life as a Painting Contractor in 1946 and are proud to have grown significantly, and organically, to continue to deliver this valued service eightdecades on.

Specifically in North London (office based in Watford)our committed commercial and operational team havesecured furtherlong-term value within our core cyclical Painting contracts and are looking to invite aQuantity Surveyorto join their commercial team.

Adriven, people-focused and entrepreneurialQuantity Surveyor,you'll join the dedicated commercial and operational team, which specialises in painting, decorating and associated planned refurbishment works in the North London 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.

Salary - £62,830plus £6,700 car allowance

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

• Be part of the company profit share scheme (over 9% of base salary achieved last year)
• Private mileage scheme anda 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 3days 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 WatfordUnit, you willactively 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 reconciliationsfor 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 beinquisitive, organised, and honestas well as being a genuine‘people person’ who thrives when collaboratingwith 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.

For information on all other additional benefits we do, to enhance your work/life balance please visit our website.

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.

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