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Our Manchester Painting business is flourishing and we’re looking to add another Quantity Surveyor to our small commercial team. We have an established, stable order book of cyclical painting and other varied project‑based works – for clients including universities, property managers and in social housing – and we’re set for future growth in the Northwest. The work is varied – and we’d be particularly interested to hear from you if you have experience on site, pricing and dealing with direct labour and subcontractors.

We’re a friendly, supportive team and we’re looking forward to welcoming another driven, people focused and entrepreneurial Quantity Surveyor to join us. As a national Property Services contractor focused on people, sustainability, and exceptional client delivery/customer satisfaction, you’ll proactively influence our commercial success long term, and we’ll offer work with real social conscience and impact.

• Be part of the company profit share scheme (14% 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 Insurance
• Annual leave, but you can 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

As a Quantity Surveyor in Greater Manchester, you will actively tender, estimate and measure on site. 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.

• 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 any variations and progress of contracts are discussed and mutually commercially viable solutions are sought.
• 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).

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 keen 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.

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