Managing Surveyor
| Posting date: | 12 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £59,483.00 to £66,733.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £66,733 including car allowance |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 July 2025 |
| Location: | Durham, TS17 6SG |
| Company: | Ian Williams Ltd |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | ORG3113-TECH610120625LHW1 |
Summary
Following an internal promotion, we’re recruiting a Managing Surveyor to 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. But 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.
We want to talk to commercially sound candidates with a track record of managing subcontractors and of dispute resolution, who have had experience in Repairs and with utilising SOR. You’ll share our core values of honesty, and integrity, and will enjoy managing, developing, and nurturing a high-performing commercial team of Quantity Surveyors and Trainee Surveyors.
Benefits:
Be part of the company profit share scheme (14% of base salary achieved last year)
Car allowance of £7,250 private mileage scheme benefit and 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, plus bank holidays, but you may want longer or less, so buy up to 5 days or sell up to 3 days per year.
Access to the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity to support your 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 whilst taking the lead with commercial decisions and the financial 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 responsive repairs contracts are at or above, agreed profit performance.
Overseeing and managing 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 the oversight of any disputes arising.
Mentoring and training new surveyors and trainees. Supporting 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 your direct reports, colleagues, customers/clients, subcontractors, and suppliers.
What will you bring as a Managing Surveyor?
Proven experience in a similar commercial or Senior Quantity Surveying role ideally from within the repairs/maintenance sector, along 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/relatable industry focused on high volume invoicing based on low value costs.
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 of working with direct labour and subcontract procurement
Experience of working on Schedule of Rates contracts, with the ability to price minor works from first principles.
Additional Benefits include:
Annual pay reviews
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.
We are delighted to have strong relationships with our preferred agencies; therefore, we politely request no agencies engage with us regarding this position.
You’ll need strong commercial instincts and influencing skills, enabling you to see the big picture and guide and lead your team. But 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.
We want to talk to commercially sound candidates with a track record of managing subcontractors and of dispute resolution, who have had experience in Repairs and with utilising SOR. You’ll share our core values of honesty, and integrity, and will enjoy managing, developing, and nurturing a high-performing commercial team of Quantity Surveyors and Trainee Surveyors.
Benefits:
Be part of the company profit share scheme (14% of base salary achieved last year)
Car allowance of £7,250 private mileage scheme benefit and 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, plus bank holidays, but you may want longer or less, so buy up to 5 days or sell up to 3 days per year.
Access to the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity to support your 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 whilst taking the lead with commercial decisions and the financial 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 responsive repairs contracts are at or above, agreed profit performance.
Overseeing and managing 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 the oversight of any disputes arising.
Mentoring and training new surveyors and trainees. Supporting 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 your direct reports, colleagues, customers/clients, subcontractors, and suppliers.
What will you bring as a Managing Surveyor?
Proven experience in a similar commercial or Senior Quantity Surveying role ideally from within the repairs/maintenance sector, along 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/relatable industry focused on high volume invoicing based on low value costs.
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 of working with direct labour and subcontract procurement
Experience of working on Schedule of Rates contracts, with the ability to price minor works from first principles.
Additional Benefits include:
Annual pay reviews
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.
We are delighted to have strong relationships with our preferred agencies; therefore, we politely request no agencies engage with us regarding this position.