Sports Relief

The IQA staff and their families who took part in the Sports Relief Mile mentioned on previous blogs completed this on Sunday in Glasgow along with thousands of others. Everyone involved thouroughly enjoyed their day and would like to thank those who sponsored them for their donations and support. The target for donations was exceeded and you can still donate through www.mysportrelief.com/iqagroup

Pictures of this event will soon be shown on our facebook page www.facebook.com/iqablogs

Christopher Watson - Reid Kerr Recognition

Christopher Watson, an apprentice joiner at the IQA Group, has recently received an SQA/SATT National Carpentry and Joinery award from Reid Kerr College in a ceremony held in Paisley Town Hall. Having worked at IQA since May 2007, Christopher has shown a positive attitude and high standard of work and it is easy to see why he has received such plaudits. Everyone at IQA would like to congratulate Christopher on his recent achievements.

Christopher's achievements mirror IQA's ethos of continuous improvement and highlights our commitment to staff training. We continue to do this with our in house training centre as well as employing several apprentices and supporting electricians though Scottish Power authorisation.

Good start to the year for IQA

IQA have continued our good start to 2010 with our team planning the work for over 20 tower upgrades that we have been awarded recently. As usual, the Quality of Work should always be kept to our high standard with Health & Safety being paramount on all sites.

We have also introduced a vehicle tracking system that will help us give our customers a more accurate time for our engineers arrival on each job. This will also help our office staff when planning reactive, on the day jobs and therefore further improve our service.

Sport Relief Mile 21 March 2010

Some of IQA's staff will be taking part in the upcoming Sports Relief Mile. This is part of our Healthy Working Lives organised by Heidi, our HSQ Advisor.

Details are as follows:

The Sport Relief Mile will take place on Sunday 21st March 2010. There are venues at Finnieston Quay, Glasgow; The Sweetie Brae, Strathaven; and Dean Road, Kilmarnock. There are 3 distances to choose from to suit whatever your age or ability!

Available Start Times
1 mile event 10.30, 12.00, 12.30
3 mile event 10.30, 11.30
6 mile event 10.30

IQA would like to encourage anyone else interested to take part in this as it is for a good cause as well as keeping you fit!

IQA Update - towers

Our Utilities department will soon be starting work on upgrading the internal mains in over 10 tower blocks on behalf of Scottish Power with our Property Maintenance team supporting them on this with joinery work.

This is extremely positive news for the whole of the IQA Group and shows that our customers place a great deal of trust in us.

Work Exp Blog

Guest Blogger
Dean Walker 14

This week from the 18th of January to the 22nd of January I have been doing work experience with IQA. I’ve been working with lots of different people including David McKinley, Richard O’Dowd, Allan Feeney, Garry Walsh, Paula and Heidi Campbell. I’ve learned a lot in my time here and had a good time and got a lot of ideas that I could do possibly in the future.

I currently go to Gleniffer High School and I am in fourth year and I learned at lot this week that I could take into consideration for the future. I’ve also learned what its like to work in many different departments including the office, IT, Audits, EPC, and Health and Safety and its all been very enjoyable and I would like to thank everyone at IQA for being so friendly and hospitable.

Quantity Surveyor Estimator - Job Vacancy

IQA Group is a fast growing Company specialising in Utilities, Electrical Contracting, Gas Services and Property Maintenance. IQA Group has a respected and solid reputation in its field of expertise. The Company is based in Paisley and currently employs over 80 dedicated staff working throughout Scotland.

Following a recent restructure of the Company which was required to meet the ongoing growth of the business we are now in a position to provide an excellent opportunity for a key individual with experience in Estimating and Quantity Surveying at a senior level to join the team and to work closely with the Operations Director and Managing Director.

You will be a highly motivated team player who has the ability to demonstrate business acumen in the wide-ranging activities that this role comprises. You will have proven experience in estimating and quantity surveying in multi disciplines with a contracting background. You are expected to drive through continuous improvements in financial and commercial performance and provide support to the Operations Managers. You will also be expected to provide strong business and commercial experience to assist the company to grow.

This position will see you being responsible for all commercial duties involved with existing contracts (inc. final accounts) and also handling measurement/pricing with regards to new opportunities. Responsibilities include: managing tendering process, estimating projects for all disciplines, quantity surveying on projects, applications for payment, final account submission and negotiation, raising commercial awareness throughout the company, assisting at regular financial reviews with managers, management of subcontractors and management of other commercial processes.

This role would suit a current Quantity Surveyor / Estimator who is ready to take on the extra challenge of building a team to support the business and provide commercial focus and assistance. This post offers the opportunity for growth and to build a long term career with the Company.

Based in our Paisley Head Office, this post is full time permanent with a salary circa £28,000 per annum plus the potential to earn an annual profit related bonus.

Please send your CV and covering note to jobs@IQAgroup.co.uk. Closing date is 15th January 2010.