Managing Surveyor

A great opportunity to be part of our growing Woodbury office. Ian Williams has a long-term partnership with our reputable social housing client in East Devon and we are looking for a **Managing Surveyor** to join our small, established but growing, commercial team.

Taking the lead with commercial reporting for the Business Manager and supporting your team, the Managing Surveyor will play an integral role; ensuring our repairs and voids services continue to be successful and profitable, whilst demonstrating value for money for our housing client.

**Benefits**:

- Be part of the company profit share scheme
- Car allowance of £7000 OR Company car option with a private mileage scheme. Both options include 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
- 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 an employee assistance program to support employee’s health and wellbeing, and free financial and legal advice

**The Managing Surveyor role**:
As a Managing Surveyor, you will actively work as part of the commercial team as a Quantity Surveyor whilst also taking the lead with commercial decisions and reporting, to ultimately impact the unit’s profitability and commercial success.

Specific tasks will include:

- Developing and maintaining a high performing Surveying team to ensure delivery of contracts at or above agreed profit 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
- Managing the contract accounting and ensuing prompt payment, control cost information. As well as preparing CVRs and valuations to closely monitor contract performance
- Developing and maintaining positive and collaborative relationships with colleagues, customers/clients, subcontractors, and suppliers

**What will you bring as a Managing Surveyor?**
- Proven experience in a similar commercial or quantity surveying role with some people management responsibilities
- A proven ability to minimise cost and maximise value, profit, and cash flow effectively, ideally from within a maintenance contracting environment or similar
- Strong people skills, IT and Microsoft excel skills
- The ability to process high volumes of data analysis
- 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.

**Additional Benefits include**:

- Annual pay reviews
- Enhanced maternity/ paternity pay
- 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.

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**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.