Quantity Surveyor

Ian Williams Ltd

Ian Williams continues to have a fantastic year full of growth and opportunity company wide. We are excited to announce we have secured a long-term contract enabling us to open a new Response/ Maintenance Business, based in our already established Bristol Business.

Ultimately, we are a commercially focused business, but we focus on people, sustainability, and exceptional client delivery/customer satisfaction to achieve this. We seek a Quantity Surveyor to genuinely share in this ethos and to actively impact our commercial success from the very beginning of a new contract set up.

You will thrive in collaborating with the operational team, while managing the full commercial responsibility for the financial and commercial aspects of our responsive/reactive works for our local authority client.

Benefits:

• Be part of the company profit share scheme (12% of base salary achieved last year)
• Private mileage scheme and fuel card
• Let us help you prepare for your future with an enhanced employer pension contribution of up to 7% OR a savings scheme.
• Life, Medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• 23 days annual leave, but you may want longer or less, so 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.
• Enhanced maternity/ paternity pay.

The Quantity Surveyor role:

As a Quantity Surveyor within our Response Maintenance Business, specifically you will:

• Prepare budget cost value reconciliations, identifying commercial risks and opportunities to ensure correct contract planning from the beginning.
• Work closely with the Contracts Manager to ensure productivity targets and contract milestones are agreed and issued before contract start, including direct labour incentives.
• Build strong client and supplier relations, to ensure any variations and the progress of contracts are discussed and resolved proactively.
• Take purchase, credit and debtor responsibility using COINS to achieve expected cash flow.
• Complete and analyse weekly reporting from site has adequate cost information (including labour rates and performance exceptional to budget, value, progress, quality, and safety)
• Produce monthly contract valuations.

What will you bring as Quantity Surveyor?

• 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, fostering a real working together environment.
• Proven experience in a similar quantity surveying/ project surveying role- experience of working on reactive maintenance contracts, and/or with schedule of rates (SORs) would be particularly advantageous
• Experience of successfully managing a value of works up to £3 million.
• A key eye for identifying areas to save money, reduce costs and maximise value.

Additional Benefits include:

• Annual pay reviews
• Training and development opportunities
• Trade discounts from our preferred suppliers for you and your friends and family
• Specsavers vouchers
• For information on all other additional benefits, we do to enhance your work/life balance, please visit our website.

About Ian Williams Ltd:

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We reserve the right to shortlist prior to the closing date based on application volumes.

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.

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