Quantity Surveyor

Ian Williams Ltd; Wes-Kaap; On-site; ZAR 200 000 - 300 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading property services contractor in the Waverley area seeks an experienced Quantity Surveyor. In this role, you will manage the financial performance of responsive repairs using Schedule of Rates while actively pricing materials and labor. Your expertise will focus on reducing costs and maximizing value. A solid background in commercial Quantity Surveying, specifically in social housing environments, along with strong IT skills, is essential. Join us for a stable career in a rapidly growing company committed to sustainability and client satisfaction.

Benefits

Profit share scheme

Private mileage scheme

Enhanced pension contribution

Life and medical insurance

Annual leave options

Training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a similar commercial or Quantity Surveying role.
• Ability to minimise cost and maximise value.
• Strong IT and Microsoft Excel skills required.

Responsibilities

• Manage financial aspects of contracts and budget.
• Ensure profitability through effective cost management.
• Produce monthly contract valuations against projected budget.

Skills

Commercial experience

Experience with Schedule of Rates (SORs)

Strong IT skills

Data analysis

Direct labour and subcontract procurement

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

• 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 for free legal, financial advice and wellbeing support
• 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

Quantity Surveyor role

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

• Being responsible for the financial and technical aspects of the contract, including procurement, managing budget, 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).

What will you bring as a Quantity Surveyor?

• Proven experience in a similar commercial or Quantity Surveying role – ideally experience of working on Schedule of Rates (SORs) contract and with social housing clients.
• Proven ability to minimise cost and maximise value, profit, and cash flow.
• Strong IT and Microsoft Excel skills – this is 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. 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.