Senior Quantity Surveyor
1 month ago
We, Ian Williams, are in a fortunate position to be increasing our commercial team, by introducing a new role of Senior Surveyor. Based in our established Exmouth Business unit, you will be providing mentoring/ coaching to the existing Quantity Surveying team, consisting of two Trainee Surveyors and two Quantity Surveyors.
The contract we deliver is unique; we deliver all our services direct to the client. These include Response/ Voids, Planned Maintenance and Compliance works, making the total contract worth £13m per year.
This provides the commercial and operational Business the opportunity to have variety within their work, focusing on ensuring that you and the team, are delivering an exceptional service to the client, building strong relations whilst driving down the costs and maximising on profit.
Benefits:
- Be part of the company profit share scheme (12% of base salary achieved last year)
- Private mileage scheme and a fuel card
- Prepare for your future with an enhanced employer pension contribution of up to 7% OR a savings scheme.
- Annual pay reviews
- Life, Medical and Permanent Health Insurance
- Annual leave. 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.
- Training and development opportunities
- Trade discounts from our preferred suppliers for you and your friends and family, and Specsavers vouchers
The Senior Surveyor role:
As Senior Surveyor, you will actively work as part of the commercial team as a Senior Surveyor, supporting the Managing Surveyor with commercial decisions and reporting, to ultimately impact the unit’s overall profitability/commercial success , making improvements for the future. This will include:
- Developing and maintaining a high performing surveying team to ensure delivery of contracts at or above agreed profit performance
- Working with SOR, you will analyse and review all payments to source solutions that will enable you to have the most cost-effective contract for yourselves, whilst maintaining the client relationship.
- Preparing valuations to closely monitor contract performance, striving for better solutions and outcomes and really steering the commercial contract performance
- Overseeing and managing financial and technical aspects of the contract including procurement, invoicing, and payment to minimise costs, maximise value and cash flow, and meet profit and debtor day targets.
- Mentoring and training new surveyors and trainees and support all commercial aspects within your unit and the wider response product, where applicable
- Developing and maintaining positive and collaborative relationships with colleagues, the customers/clients, subcontractors, and suppliers
What will you bring as a Senior Surveyor?
- A proven ability to minimise cost and maximise value, profit, and cash flow effectively, ideally from within a maintenance contracting environment or similar
- Demonstrable people leadership skills, whether that be managing an experienced team, or mentoring Trainees
- The ability to process high volumes of data analysis, with the use of IT systems, and Excel
- Experience of working with direct labour and subcontract procurement
- Experience of working on Schedule of Rates contracts is desirable, with the ability to price minor works from first principles.
About Ian Williams Ltd:
Discover more about us by reviewing our website, and also through our social media platforms, along with Indeed and Glassdoor.
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 regards to this position.
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