Managing Surveyor

To £69,600 inc car allowance PLUS pension, healthcare, profit share last year 9%

Our client in Middlesbrough (Thornaby-on-Tees) are seeking a Managing Quantity Surveyor / Senior Quantity Surveyor to join their Response Team – Housing Response and Maintenance.

They have been an established and leading property services company for over 75 years, based across England and Wales, with over 18 locations and 32 Business Units. Their main customer base is Social Housing and Council/Local Authority housing associations.

Managing Quantity Surveyor

Following an internal promotion, they are recruiting a Managing Surveyor / Senior Quantity Surveyor for their Middlesbrough-based Commercial team overseeing the Responsive Repairs division.

• if you thrive on data, love solving complex commercial challenges, and want to make a real social impact through the work you deliver, this is your opportunity

Interrogate and manipulate data with advanced Excel skills to analyse SOR codes, identifying cost‑saving opportunities and delivering efficiencies across the contract.

You’ll need strong commercial instincts and influencing skills, enabling you to see the big picture and guide and lead your team. You’ll also have the opportunity to be hands‑on, managing contracts and drilling into the data to ensure we’re working effectively and profitably, all the while demonstrating value for money for our clients.

Taking full accountability for the commercial function of the Responsive Repairs and Void (vacant properties) works for their reputable housing clients in and around Middlesbrough, you’ll work closely with colleagues in their Leeds and Manchester offices, managing, developing, and nurturing a high‑performing commercial team of Quantity Surveyors and Trainee Surveyors.

We want to talk to commercially‑minded candidates who have experience in repairs and have utilised SOR, a track record of managing subcontractors and dealing with dispute resolution, and who share our core values of honesty and integrity.

The main criteria are someone with reactive maintenance experience having managed the commercial aspects. SOR (schedule of rate contract) experience and knowledge is a big tick. High volume jobs, analytical and spreadsheet familiarity.

• Be part of the company profit share scheme (9% of base salary achieved last year)
• Car allowance of £7,250, private mileage scheme benefit and fuel card
• Enhanced employer pension contribution of up to 7% or a savings scheme
• Life, medical and permanent health insurance
• 23 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, with options to buy up to 5 days or sell up to 3 days per year
• Access to the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity for health and wellbeing, including free legal and financial advice
• Enhanced maternity/paternity pay

The Managing Surveyor role

As a Managing Surveyor, you will actively work as part of the commercial team while taking the lead with commercial decisions and financial reporting, to ultimately impact the unit’s profitability and make improvements for the future.

Specific tasks

• Develop and maintain a high‑performing surveying team to ensure delivery of responsive repairs contracts meet or exceed agreed profit performance
• Oversee and manage the financial and technical aspects of each contract, including procurement, invoicing, and payments to minimise costs, maximise value and cash flow, and meet profit and debtor‑day targets
• Subcontractor management and oversight of any disputes arising
• Mentor and train new surveyors and trainees, supporting all commercial aspects within your unit and the wider response product where applicable
• Manage contract accounting and ensure prompt payment, control cost information, and prepare CVRs and valuations to monitor contract performance, striving for better solutions and outcomes and steering commercial contract performance
• Develop and maintain positive, collaborative relationships with direct reports, colleagues, customers/clients, subcontractors and suppliers

What will you bring?

• Proven experience in a similar commercial or senior quantity surveying role, ideally from within the repairs/maintenance sector, with some people‑management responsibilities/experience
• A proven ability to minimise cost and maximise value, profit and cash flow effectively, from within a maintenance contracting environment or similar high‑volume invoicing industry
• Strong people skills: you will enjoy supporting, directing and collaborating with your team to encourage and facilitate growth and development
• Excellent IT and Microsoft Excel skills, with the ability to process high volumes of data analysis
• Experience working with direct labour and subcontract procurement
• Experience working on Schedule of Rates contracts, with the ability to price minor works from first principles

Benefits

• Annual pay reviews
• Training and development opportunities
• Trade discounts from preferred suppliers for you and your friends and family