Managing Surveyor
| Posting date: | 15 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 May 2024 |
| Location: | West Midlands, B6 5RQ |
| Company: | Ian Williams Ltd |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | ORG3113-TECH36015042024LMM |
Summary
Our Birmingham office is a hub of activity, collaboration and creativity, with iwhub and all three Products operating out of our Birmingham office. Ian Williams has a long-term partnership with our reputable social housing client in Birmingham, and we are looking for a Managing Surveyor to join our established and growing team.
Taking accountability of the commercial function of the Unit, while leading and supporting your Commercial team, the Managing Surveyor will play an integral role in ensuring our repairs and voids services continue to be successful and profitable, whilst demonstrating value for money for our housing client.
We want to talk to commercial candidates who share our core values, honesty, and integrity, as well as enjoy managing, developing, and nurturing a high performing commercial team.
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
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 whilst also taking the lead with commercial decisions and reporting, to ultimately impact the unit’s profitability/commercial success and making improvements for the future.
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, striving for better solutions and outcomes and steering the commercial 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, along with some people management responsibilities/ experience
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, please visit our website.
About Ian Williams Ltd:
Discover more, not just from our website but through our Facebook, LinkedIn, Indeed and Glassdoor pages.
We reserve the right to shortlist prior to the closing date based on application volumes.
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.
Ian Williams Ltd will use applicants’ details for recruitment purposes only. For more information, please read our Candidate Privacy Notice located at our website.
Taking accountability of the commercial function of the Unit, while leading and supporting your Commercial team, the Managing Surveyor will play an integral role in ensuring our repairs and voids services continue to be successful and profitable, whilst demonstrating value for money for our housing client.
We want to talk to commercial candidates who share our core values, honesty, and integrity, as well as enjoy managing, developing, and nurturing a high performing commercial team.
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
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 whilst also taking the lead with commercial decisions and reporting, to ultimately impact the unit’s profitability/commercial success and making improvements for the future.
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, striving for better solutions and outcomes and steering the commercial 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, along with some people management responsibilities/ experience
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, please visit our website.
About Ian Williams Ltd:
Discover more, not just from our website but through our Facebook, LinkedIn, Indeed and Glassdoor pages.
We reserve the right to shortlist prior to the closing date based on application volumes.
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.
Ian Williams Ltd will use applicants’ details for recruitment purposes only. For more information, please read our Candidate Privacy Notice located at our website.