Quantity Surveyor

Ian Williams Ltd; Worthing; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A national property services contractor seeks a Quantity Surveyor to join their team in Worthing. The ideal candidate will manage the financial performance of responsive repairs, ensuring cost efficiency and value maximization. A proven background in Quantity Surveying, especially with social housing clients, is essential. This role offers a comprehensive benefits package including profit share and insurance options.

Benefits

Profit share scheme

Private mileage scheme

Employer pension contribution

Life, Medical and Permanent Health Insurance

Annual leave options

Access to health and wellbeing charity

Annual pay reviews

Enhanced maternity/paternity pay

Training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a similar commercial or Quantity Surveying role, ideally with SORs contract and social housing clients.
• Experience working with direct labour and subcontract procurement.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for financial and technical aspects of contracts, including procurement and budget management.
• Minimise costs and maximise value.
• Produce monthly contract valuations of actual deliverables against budget.

Skills

Proven ability to minimise cost and maximise value

Strong IT and Microsoft Excel skills

Ability to process high volumes of data analysis

Job description

Ian Williams continues to have a fantastic year full of growth and opportunity company wide. Specifically, within our Response/ Maintenance arm, one of our largest divisions in the Business, we are proud to continue to flourish as we look to add to our team in Worthing.

As a national Property Services contractor focused on people, sustainability, and exceptional client delivery/customer satisfaction, we seek a Quantity Surveyor to truly share in this ethos; proactively influencing our commercial success long term in Worthing, working with our reputable social housing client completing day to day repairs and voids maintenance works.

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.

Benefits package

• Profit share scheme (14% of base salary achieved last year)
• Private mileage scheme and a fuel card
• Employer pension contribution of up to 7% or a savings scheme
• Life, Medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Annual leave, with the option to buy up to 5 days or sell up to 3 days per year
• Access to the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity for 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 actively price materials and labour for our responsive repairs workstream using SORs, whilst managing the financial performance of this works to its completion. Focusing on reducing costs, improving efficiencies, and maximising value, you will have real impact on our profitability.

Specific tasks will include

• Being responsible for the financial and technical aspects of the contract, including procurement, budget management, direct labour targeting, subcontractor management, invoicing, payments, cash flow, and cost control.
• Minimising costs where possible, and maximising value.
• Working with direct labour and subcontractors, ensuring all work issued has labour targets to return agreed profit performance.
• Developing and maintaining open and trusting relationships with the workforce, our customers, subcontractors, suppliers, and our client.
• Producing monthly contract valuations of the unit’s actual deliverables against the projected budget (CVRs).

Qualifications and experience

• Proven experience in a similar commercial or Quantity Surveying role, ideally with SORs contract and social housing clients.
• Proven ability to minimise cost and maximise value, profit and cash flow.
• Strong IT and Microsoft Excel skills – essential.
• Ability to process high volumes of data analysis.
• Experience working with direct labour and subcontract procurement.

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. We comply fully with the code of practice and treat all applicants fairly for positions included under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order, using DBS checks.

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 belief deeply in diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, and all other characteristics that make us different.

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