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 divisions in the Business, we are proud to continue to flourish as we look to add to our team in Worthing.
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; proactively influencing our commercial success long term in Worthing, working with our reputable social housing client completing day to day repairs and voids maintenance works.
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.
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, you will actively price materials and labour for our responsive repairs workstream using SORs, 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. This will include 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 you will have 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
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