Quantity Surveyor – Painting & Refurbishment (Profit Share)

Ian Williams Ltd; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit share

Mileage scheme

Enhanced pension

Life & health insurance

Annual leave buy/sell

Charity support

Pay reviews

Maternity/paternity pay

Training & development

Staff discounts

Specsavers vouchers

Job summary

Ian Williams Ltd in Birmingham is seeking a driven Quantity Surveyor to tender, estimate and measure on site, supporting a diverse portfolio of painting, refurbishment and allied works. You will manage cost plans, value reconciliations and contract planning, while building strong relationships with clients and subcontractors.

You will contribute to commercial success, identify opportunities for savings, and work closely with the Contracts Manager to meet targets and ensure profitable project

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a similar 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.
• Schedule of Rates (SORs) experience.
• Entrepreneurial spirit, with a key eye for identifying business opportunities, and areas for negotiation and better gains.

Responsibilities

• 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)

Skills

Cost estimation

Tendering

Measurement on site

Budgeting

Contract administration

Client relations

Procurement

Job description

Ian Williams Ltd in Birmingham is seeking a driven Quantity Surveyor to tender, estimate and measure on site, supporting a diverse portfolio of painting, refurbishment and allied works. You will manage cost plans, value reconciliations and contract planning, while building strong relationships with clients and subcontractors.

You will contribute to commercial success, identify opportunities for savings, and work closely with the Contracts Manager to meet targets and ensure profitable project