Quantity Surveyor

Ian Williams Ltd; Wes-Kaap; On-site; ZAR 500 000 - 700 000; Full time

Job summary

A national Property Services contractor in South Africa is seeking a Quantity Surveyor to enhance its commercial success. The role involves managing costs, pricing materials, and collaborating with operational teams to optimize efficiency and profitability. Strong Microsoft Excel skills and commercial experience, especially with social housing projects, are essential. Benefits include a profit share scheme, insurance, and training opportunities, fostering a supportive and diverse work environment.

Benefits

Profit share scheme

Private mileage scheme

Enhanced employer pension contribution

Life and Medical Insurance

Annual leave options

Access to financial advice

Annual pay reviews

Training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a similar commercial or Quantity Surveying role, ideally with SORs contracts.
• Ability to minimize cost and maximize value, profit, and cash flow.
• Strong IT and Microsoft Excel skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage financial and technical aspects of contracts.
• Minimize costs while maximizing value.
• Produce monthly contract valuations against projected budgets.

Skills

Commercial experience

Cost minimization

Microsoft Excel

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 Products in Ian Williams, we are proud to continue to flourish as we look to add to our team in the Waverley area.

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. While proactively influencing our commercial success long term, we can offer work with real social conscience and impact.

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

• 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 Health Insurance
• Annual leave, with options to 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

Role Summary

As a Quantity Surveyor, you will actively price materials and labour for our responsive repairs workstream using SORs (Schedule of Rates), 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 contracts 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 in 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 undertake to treat all applicants 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.