Overview
Are you a data-driven Quantity Surveyor, happy to drill into the figures to optimise efficiency, taking ownership of the process and considering alternative approaches? If so, we’d love you to join us, working with our social housing clients on day-to-day repairs and voids maintenance works.
Based in our Middlesbrough office, you’ll support our operations in Leeds, enjoying the fast pace of work in our collaborative team.
You’ll need advanced Excel skills, the ability to quickly interrogate & manipulate data & to explain & justify decisions. Together with your deep understanding of SOR codes & knowledge of social housing, you’ll help us to deliver cost savings & value for money so that we can do more for our customers.
Benefits
- Be part of the company profit share scheme (14% of base salary achieved last year)
- £6,700 car allowance, 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 option to buy up to 5 days or sell up to 3 days per year
- Access to Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity for health and wellbeing support, including free legal and financial advice
- Enhanced maternity/ paternity pay
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, 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 with experience on Schedule of Rates (SORs) contracts and with social housing clients
- Proven ability to minimise cost and maximise value, profit, and cash flow
- Strong IT and Microsoft Excel skills
- Ability to process high volumes of data analysis
- Experience in working with direct labour and subcontract procurement
About Ian Williams Ltd
Ian Williams is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Diversity is a foundation of what we do, and we are focused on equality and diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, and all other characteristics that make us different.
The successful applicant will be required to complete a criminal records check. We comply with the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) process, and we are committed to treating all applicants fairly.
The organisation reserves the right to shortlist prior to the closing date.
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