Quantity Surveyor
| Posting date: | 20 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 March 2026 |
| Location: | Surrey, KT19 8JD |
| Company: | Ian Williams Ltd |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | ORG3113-TECH470200226LHW |
Summary
More good news here at Ian Williams - our London Capital (Planned works/ Refurbishment) division has secured a further long-term contract - & we’re looking for a Quantity Surveyor to support this on-going growth.
Whilst we’re a commercially focused business, we achieve our successes by concentrating on people, sustainability, and exceptional client delivery/customer satisfaction. Our mission is to be “a company loved by its employees and customers”.
We’re looking for a Quantity Surveyor who genuinely shares in this aim - and who wants to both make an impact on our commercial success AND make a real, immediately tangible difference to the lives of our customers in the social housing sector.
You’ll be joining a collaborative team, where we do really “all chip in” to achieve our aims. Working closely with the operational team you’ll be managing the full commercial responsibility for the financial and commercial aspects of planned works for our housing association clients in Wembley, Brixton and Lewisham.
Benefits:
Be part of the company profit share scheme (14% of base salary achieved last year)
Private mileage scheme 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, 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 Quantity Surveyor role:
As a Quantity Surveyor within our Capital works division, you will actively tender, estimate and measure onsite. Specifically, you will:
Measure and prepare cost estimates for contracts and tenders, highlighting any risks and solutions for mitigating these.
Prepare budget cost value reconciliations, identifying commercial risks and opportunities to ensure correct contract planning from the beginning.
Work closely with the Contracts Manager to ensure productivity targets and contract milestones are agreed and issued before contract start, including direct labour incentives.
Build strong client and supplier relations, to ensure any variations and the progress of contracts are discussed and resolved proactively.
Take purchase, credit and debtor responsibility using COINS to achieve expected cash flow.
Complete and analyse weekly reporting from site has adequate cost information (including labour rates and performance exceptional to budget, value, progress, quality, and safety)
Produce monthly contract valuations.
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, fostering a real ‘working together’ environment.
Proven experience in a similar quantity surveying/Project surveying role, focusing on kitchen & bathroom refurbishment or Voids.
Experience of successfully managing a value of works up to £3 million.
A key eye for identifying areas to save money, reduce costs and maximise value.
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, we do to enhance your work/life balance, please visit our website.
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.
Whilst we’re a commercially focused business, we achieve our successes by concentrating on people, sustainability, and exceptional client delivery/customer satisfaction. Our mission is to be “a company loved by its employees and customers”.
We’re looking for a Quantity Surveyor who genuinely shares in this aim - and who wants to both make an impact on our commercial success AND make a real, immediately tangible difference to the lives of our customers in the social housing sector.
You’ll be joining a collaborative team, where we do really “all chip in” to achieve our aims. Working closely with the operational team you’ll be managing the full commercial responsibility for the financial and commercial aspects of planned works for our housing association clients in Wembley, Brixton and Lewisham.
Benefits:
Be part of the company profit share scheme (14% of base salary achieved last year)
Private mileage scheme 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, 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 Quantity Surveyor role:
As a Quantity Surveyor within our Capital works division, you will actively tender, estimate and measure onsite. Specifically, you will:
Measure and prepare cost estimates for contracts and tenders, highlighting any risks and solutions for mitigating these.
Prepare budget cost value reconciliations, identifying commercial risks and opportunities to ensure correct contract planning from the beginning.
Work closely with the Contracts Manager to ensure productivity targets and contract milestones are agreed and issued before contract start, including direct labour incentives.
Build strong client and supplier relations, to ensure any variations and the progress of contracts are discussed and resolved proactively.
Take purchase, credit and debtor responsibility using COINS to achieve expected cash flow.
Complete and analyse weekly reporting from site has adequate cost information (including labour rates and performance exceptional to budget, value, progress, quality, and safety)
Produce monthly contract valuations.
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, fostering a real ‘working together’ environment.
Proven experience in a similar quantity surveying/Project surveying role, focusing on kitchen & bathroom refurbishment or Voids.
Experience of successfully managing a value of works up to £3 million.
A key eye for identifying areas to save money, reduce costs and maximise value.
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, we do to enhance your work/life balance, please visit our website.
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.