Quantity Surveyor in Kent, Tonbridge

Following an internal promotion, our flourishing South London cyclical painting team is looking for a Quantity Surveyor based in Kent. We're looking for someone who shares our values and can support the long-term goals for stability and future growth in the South East. Honesty, integrity, and teamwork will be at the heart of what you do.

A driven, people-focused and entrepreneurial Quantity Surveyor, you'll join the dedicated commercial and operational team, which specialises in painting, decorating and associated planned refurbishment works in the South London and Kent areas. You'll be working for clients across a variety of sectors including commercial property development, education and social housing. In return, being a critical part of our commercial success will bring you security.

Working collaboratively with your operational and commercial teams to make things happen together, you will go further with us, enabling a prosperous career with opportunities to develop, within a stable but organically growing business, holding people at its core.

At Ian Williams, we value our employees and offer an exceptional benefits package:

• Be part of the company profit share scheme (9.33% of base salary achieved last year)
• 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 the option 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 support, including free legal and financial advice
• Annual pay reviews
• 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 Quantity Surveyor role:

As a Quantity Surveyor, you will either be based in our Tonbridge Unit, actively tendering, estimating and measuring onsite. We can offer a variety of works including established frameworks and core contracts with prestigious housing clients within the public and residential sector, as well as our property services covering retirement living, commercial and education sectors too.

Specifically, you will:

• Measure and prepare cost estimates for contracts and tenders, highlighting any commercial risks and mitigation for these
• Prepare cost value reconciliations for contracts, identifying commercial risks and opportunities to ensure correct contract planning from the outset
• Work closely with the Contracts Manager to ensure productivity labour targets are agreed and issued before contract start, including direct labour incentives where possible
• Build strong client, supplier, and subcontractor relations, ensuring any variations and progress of contracts are discussed and mutually beneficial solutions are sought
• Complete and analyse weekly reporting from site, ensuring it has adequate cost information (including labour rates and performance expectations, budgets, value, progress, quality, and safety)

What will you bring as Quantity Surveyor?

You will be inquisitive, organised, and honest, as well as being a genuine 'people person' who thrives when collaborating with clients, trade teams and immediate colleagues. You will enjoy being part of a genuine team environment.

Proven experience in a similar estimating and commercially focused surveying role is essential, along with:

• Experience of the commercial ownership of projects and contracts from tender and estimation stages through to final account
• Experience of working for a painting or refurbishment contractor would be very advantageous
• Experience of successfully managing commercially, a total value of works up to 2 million annually
• Entrepreneurial spirit, with a key eye for identifying business opportunities, and areas for negotiation and better gains
• Describing yourself as commercial, analytical, and accurate in your approach

For information on all other additional benefits we offer to enhance your work/life balance, please visit our website.

The successful applicant will be required to complete a criminal records check. 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 reserve the right to shortlist prior to the closing date. Ian Williams Ltd will use applicants' details for recruitment purposes only.