Quantity Surveyor

Ian Williams Ltd; West Midlands; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit share

Fuel card

Pension contribution

Life, medical and health insurance

Annual leave buy/sell

Legal and financial advice access

Annual pay reviews

Enhanced maternity/paternity pay

Training and development opportunities

Trade discounts

Job summary

Ian Williams Ltd in Birmingham seeks a driven Quantity Surveyor to join our painting and decorating focused team. You will tender, estimate and measure on site, supporting frameworks and contracts with housing clients in public and residential sectors.

You will build client and supplier relationships, manage cost reporting and ensure commercial viability of variations while contributing to a secure, long-term business future.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a similar surveying role and ownership of projects from tender to final account.
• Experience with painting or refurbishment contracts is advantageous.
• Strong commercial, analytical and negotiation capabilities.
• Ability to collaborate with clients, trade teams and colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Measure and prepare cost estimates for contracts and tenders, highlighting commercial risks and mitigation.
• Prepare cost value reconciliations for contracts, identifying risks and opportunities for planning.
• Work with the Contracts Manager to agree productivity labour targets and incentives.
• Build strong client, supplier and subcontractor relations for viable variations.
• Analyse weekly site reports with cost information including labour rates, budgets and progress.

Skills

Surveying experience

Project ownership

Painting/refurbishment

Budget management

SORs experience

Entrepreneurial mindset

Job description

Our long-established Birmingham painting team continues to flourish and we are looking to recruit a Quantity Surveyor. Honesty, integrity and teamwork will be at the heart of what you do; we seek someone to share in this ethos.

This opportunity offers us the chance to welcome a driven, people focused and entrepreneurial Quantity Surveyor to join our long-reigning and supportive commercial and operational team, who specialise in painting and decorating and associated planned refurbishment works in the Birmingham area.

As we continuously look to sustain growth locally and business-wide, here at Ian Williams we offer our people the chance to be part of our prosperous and financially secure long-term future full of potential and opportunity. Our success brings you security.

Benefits

• Profit share scheme (9.33% of base salary achieved last year)
• Private mileage scheme and a fuel card
• Enhanced employer pension contribution of up to 7% or a savings scheme
• Life, medical and permanent health insurance
• Annual leave: buy up to 5 days or sell up to 3 days per year
• Access to the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity – free legal and financial advice
• Annual pay reviews
• Enhanced maternity/paternity pay
• Training and development opportunities
• Trade discounts from preferred suppliers for you, your friends and family, and Specsavers vouchers

The Quantity Surveyor Role

As a Quantity Surveyor in Birmingham 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 sectors as well as our property services covering defence, commercial and education sectors.

• Measure and prepare cost estimates for contracts and tenders, highlighting any commercial risks and mitigation.
• 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 variations and progress of contracts are discussed and mutually 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).

Qualifications

• Inquisitive, organised, honest and a genuine people person who thrives when collaborating with clients, trade teams and colleagues.
• Proven experience in a similar surveying role. Experience of owning projects and contracts from tender and estimation through to final account. Experience with a painting or refurbishment contractor is advantageous.
• Experience successfully managing commercially a total value of works up to £2 million annually.
• Experience with Schedule of Rates (SORs).
• Entrepreneurial spirit, keen eye for identifying business opportunities and negotiation to gain better outcomes. Commercial, analytical and accurate approach.

For information on additional benefits and how we enhance work/life balance please visit our website.

Ian Williams is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Diversity is more than a commitment – 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.

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

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

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We are delighted to have strong relationships with our preferred agencies; therefore, we politely request no agencies engage with us regarding this position.