Managing Quantity Surveyor

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Following an internal promotion, we’re recruiting a Managing Surveyor for our Middlesbrough-based Commercial team overseeing the Responsive repairs division. We’ve had another prosperous year and are looking ahead to a sustainable future of potential and opportunity.

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 our reputable housing clients in and around Middlesbrough, you’ll work closely with colleagues in our 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’ve had experience in Repairs and with utilising SOR, who have a track record of managing subcontractors and dealing with dispute resolution, and who share our core values of honesty and integrity.

Benefits

• Be part of the company profit share scheme (14% of base salary achieved last year)
• Car allowance of £7,250 per annum 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 the option to buy up to 5 days or sell up to 3 days per year.
• Access to the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity for 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 whilst taking the lead on commercial decisions and financial reporting, to ultimately impact the unit’s profitability and commercial success, and make improvements for the future.

Specific Tasks

• Develop and maintain a high performing Surveying team to ensure responsive repairs contracts deliver agreed profit performance.
• Oversee and manage 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.
• Manage subcontractor relationships and dispute oversight.
• Mentor and train new surveyors and trainees; support all commercial aspects within your unit and the wider response product.
• Handle contract accounting, prompt payment control, prepare CVRs and valuations to monitor performance, and steer commercial contract performance.
• Develop positive and collaborative relationships with direct reports, colleagues, customers/clients, subcontractors, and suppliers.

What you’ll bring

• Proven experience in a similar commercial or senior quantity surveying role, ideally in repairs/maintenance, with people‑management responsibilities.
• Proven ability to minimise cost and maximise value, profit and cash flow in a maintenance contracting environment.
• Strong people skills – direction, collaboration and development of your team.
• Excellent IT and Microsoft Excel skills to analyse high volumes of data.
• Experience in direct labour and subcontract procurement.
• Experience with Schedule of Rates contracts and ability to price minor works from first principles.

Additional Benefits

• Annual pay reviews.
• Training and development opportunities.
• Trade discounts from preferred suppliers for you and your family.
• Specsavers vouchers.
• Further benefits available – please visit our website.

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Equal Opportunity

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 fully focus on equality and believe deeply in diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, and all other characteristics that make us different.

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