Quantity Surveyor

Our long-established Amesbury Capital team continues to flourish and we are looking to recruit a Quantity Surveyor
. Honesty, integrity, and teamwork will be at the heart of what you do.

Ultimately, we are a commercially focused business, but we focus on people, sustainability, and exceptional client delivery/customer satisfaction to achieve this. We seek a Quantity Surveyor to genuinely share in this ethos and to actively impact our commercial success.

You will thrive in collaborating with the operational team, while managing the full commercial responsibility for the financial and commercial aspects of our planned works for our local authority client.

• Be part of the company profit share scheme (14% of base salary achieved last year)
• Private mileage scheme and fuel card
• Progressive pension contribution up to 7% or savings scheme
• Life, medical and permanent health insurance
• 23 days 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, including free legal and financial advice
• Enhanced maternity/paternity pay

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 to ensure adequate cost information (including labour rates and performance against budget, value, progress, quality, and safety).
• Produce monthly contract valuations.

• You will be inquisitive, organized, 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 or project surveying role.
• Experience of successfully managing a value of works up to £3 million.
• A keen eye for identifying areas to save money, reduce costs and maximise value.

• Annual pay reviews
• Training and development opportunities
• Trade discounts from our preferred suppliers for you and your friends and family
• Specsavers vouchers

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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.

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• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Management and Manufacturing

• Construction