Quantity Surveyor
| Posting date: | 23 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £49,865.00 to £56,565.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £56,565.00 including car allowance |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 October 2025 |
| Location: | Greater Manchester, WF17 9TD |
| Company: | Ian Williams Ltd |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | ORG3113-TECH510230925LHW |
Summary
Are you a data-driven Quantity Surveyor, happy to drill into the figures to optimise efficiency, taking ownership of the process and considering alternative approaches? We’re a national Property Services contractor focused on people, sustainability, and exceptional client delivery/customer satisfaction, and we’re looking for a QS who shares our ethos to work with our reputable social housing clients on day-to-day repairs and voids maintenance works.
Based in our Leeds Response Maintenance office, you’ll support our operations in Manchester, enjoying the fast pace of work in our collaborative team.
You’ll need advanced Excel skills, the ability to quickly interrogate & manipulate data & to explain & justify decisions. Together with your deep understanding of SOR codes & knowledge of social housing, you’ll help us to deliver cost savings & value for money so that we can do more for our customers.
At Ian Williams, we value our employees and offer an exceptional benefits package:
Be part of the company profit share scheme (14% of base salary achieved last year)
Private mileage scheme and 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 the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity to support your health and wellbeing, 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 actively price materials and labour for our responsive repairs workstream using SORs, whilst managing the financial performance of this works to its completion. Focusing on reducing costs, improving efficiencies, and maximising value, you will have real impact on our profitability.
Specific tasks will include:
Being responsible for the financial and technical aspects of the contract. This will include procurement, managing budget, direct labour targeting, subcontractor management, invoicing, payments, cash flow, and cost control.
Minimising costs where possible, and maximising value.
Working with direct labour and subcontractors, ensuring all work issued has labour targets to return agreed profit performance.
Developing and maintaining open and trusting relationships with the workforce, our customers, subcontractors, suppliers, and our client.
Producing monthly contract valuations of the unit’s actual deliverables against the projected budget (CVRs)
What will you bring as a Quantity Surveyor?
Proven experience in a similar commercial or Quantity Surveying role- ideally you will have experience of working on Schedule of Rates (SORs) contract and with social housing clients.
Proven ability to minimise cost and maximise value, profit, and cash flow.
Strong IT and Microsoft excel skills- this is essential.
Ability to process high volumes of data analysis.
Experience in working with direct labour and subcontract procurement.
About Ian Williams Ltd
Discover more about us by reviewing our website, and also through our social media platforms, along with LinkedIn, Indeed and Glassdoor.
The successful applicant will be required to complete a criminal records check. As an organisation assessing applicants’ suitability for positions which are included in the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order using criminal record checks processed through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), we comply fully with the code of practice and undertake to treat all applicants for positions fairly.
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.
We reserve the right to shortlist prior to the closing date.
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 in regard to this position.
Based in our Leeds Response Maintenance office, you’ll support our operations in Manchester, enjoying the fast pace of work in our collaborative team.
You’ll need advanced Excel skills, the ability to quickly interrogate & manipulate data & to explain & justify decisions. Together with your deep understanding of SOR codes & knowledge of social housing, you’ll help us to deliver cost savings & value for money so that we can do more for our customers.
At Ian Williams, we value our employees and offer an exceptional benefits package:
Be part of the company profit share scheme (14% of base salary achieved last year)
Private mileage scheme and 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 the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity to support your health and wellbeing, 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 actively price materials and labour for our responsive repairs workstream using SORs, whilst managing the financial performance of this works to its completion. Focusing on reducing costs, improving efficiencies, and maximising value, you will have real impact on our profitability.
Specific tasks will include:
Being responsible for the financial and technical aspects of the contract. This will include procurement, managing budget, direct labour targeting, subcontractor management, invoicing, payments, cash flow, and cost control.
Minimising costs where possible, and maximising value.
Working with direct labour and subcontractors, ensuring all work issued has labour targets to return agreed profit performance.
Developing and maintaining open and trusting relationships with the workforce, our customers, subcontractors, suppliers, and our client.
Producing monthly contract valuations of the unit’s actual deliverables against the projected budget (CVRs)
What will you bring as a Quantity Surveyor?
Proven experience in a similar commercial or Quantity Surveying role- ideally you will have experience of working on Schedule of Rates (SORs) contract and with social housing clients.
Proven ability to minimise cost and maximise value, profit, and cash flow.
Strong IT and Microsoft excel skills- this is essential.
Ability to process high volumes of data analysis.
Experience in working with direct labour and subcontract procurement.
About Ian Williams Ltd
Discover more about us by reviewing our website, and also through our social media platforms, along with LinkedIn, Indeed and Glassdoor.
The successful applicant will be required to complete a criminal records check. As an organisation assessing applicants’ suitability for positions which are included in the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order using criminal record checks processed through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), we comply fully with the code of practice and undertake to treat all applicants for positions fairly.
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.
We reserve the right to shortlist prior to the closing date.
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 in regard to this position.