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Following the successful launch of our Newbury (Reading) unit earlier this year we are proud to already expand our commercial team here. Through our peoples commitment, team ethos and customer centric approach the Newbury team has flourished, having secured further long term cyclical contracts beyond its budget, creating an even more stable order book for its' bright future. We are looking for a Quantity Surveyor who can share in this growth ethos. Honesty, integrity and teamwork will be at the heart of what you do.
This opportunity offers us the chance to welcome an enthusiastic, people focused and entrepreneurial Quantity Surveyor to join our dedicated commercial and operational team, who specialise in painting and decorating and associated planned refurbishment works to the public, private, residential and educational sector.
As we continuously look to sustainable growth locally and business wide, here at Ian Williams we offer our people the chance to be a part of our prosperous long-term future that is full of potential, development and opportunity.
At Ian Williams, we value our employees and offer an exceptional benefits package:
* Be part of the company profit share scheme (14% of base salary achieved last year)
* Private mileage scheme and a 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
* 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.
* 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
The Quantity Surveyor role:
As a Quantity Surveyor in Newbury, you will actively tender, estimate and measure onsite. We can offer a variety of works including established frameworks and core contracts with prestigious clients within the public, and residential sector as well as our services covering into the retirement living, commercial and education sectors too. Specifically, you will:
* Measure and prepare cost estimates for contracts and tenders, highlighting any commercial risks.
* 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 and supplier relations, to ensure any variations and progress of contracts are discussed and mutual 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)
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, whilst building valued long-term relationships.
* Proven experience in a similar estimating and surveying role. Experience of the commercial management of projects from tender and estimation stages through to final account.
* Experience of successfully managing a value of works up to £3 million annually.
* Entrepreneurial spirit, with a key 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.
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.
Ian Williams Ltd will use applicants’ details for recruitment purposes only. For more information, please read our Candidate Privacy Notice located at our website.
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.
Seniority level
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Mid-Senior level
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Full-time
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Management and Manufacturing
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Construction
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