Award Winning Employer of Choice
Category: Job Finding
Publish date: 02/06/2021
Ian Williams is one of the UK’s largest privately-owned property services companies, at the forefront of delivering innovative planned and responsive services to the built environment. The company is also one of the largest painting contractors in the UK and works with high profile clients across the housing, retirement living, education, major and complex loss, public buildings and commercial markets. Ian Williams is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the best talent as an employer of choice.
Award-winning employer of choice
Ian Williams has been successfully looking after homes and buildings since 1946, and over the last seven decades, has recognised that it’s our people who define and shape the organisation and sustain growth. That’s why the company is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the best talent as an employer of choice, a process managed by the Ian Williams’ Academy.
Ian Williams has a strategy of directly delivering its services wherever possible; a strategy that has been acknowledged by ‘We Invest in People’, who awarded us the Gold Standard in recognition of being a ‘great place to work’. And in 2020, the company was shortlisted as Employer of the Year Gold 250+ in the ‘Investors in People’ awards. We’ve also been awarded PwC’s West of England Business of the Year, and are the proud holder of 12 RoSPA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents) Gold Awards and subsequent coveted President’s Award.
The brand’s mission is to be a company loved by its employees and customers, and we strive to achieve this by ensuring the values and behaviours our teams demonstrate every day support this aim; creating a safe, supportive and friendly working environment where employees can do their best work. We understand that different people want different things from a workplace and have a flexible, diverse, open, honest and fun culture, regularly promoting talent from within. With many traditional and non-traditional opportunities for talent progression across the organisation, we pride ourselves on giving individuals the opportunity to fulfil potential and achieve fair rewards.
Ian Williams and CTP
Ian Williams has worked with CTP for several years and officially signed to the Armed Forces Covenant in a move that showed our commitment to employing and supporting ex-military personnel moving into the civilian working environment.
The company has long recognised that reservists and veterans bring a variety of transferable skills and qualities to the civilian workplace, which you’ve developed throughout your military careers. Ian William already have a number of ex-military personnel in the business, including painters and decorators, surveyors, carpenters and Business Managers. And there are plenty of other potential vacancies across the business; from qualified trade persons through to business function and management opportunities.
Case Study - Richard Croucher
One man who knows exactly what it’s like to make this move, with the support of Ian Williams as an employer, is Richard Croucher, Business Manager:
“I was in the Royal Engineers for 5 years before returning to civvy life. Fortunately, with the advice of my Dad, I was always aware that I’d need a trade to fall back on. And that trade was in the building and construction sector via property services at Ian Williams.
"The great thing about the military is its commitment to training, training and more training. Hard work, being the best you can be and great performance is recognised and rewarded – attributes that are well aligned with working with an organisation like Ian Williams. I joined them 7 years ago as a Contracts Manager and after 2 years, was promoted to Business Manager. I am now in the fortunate position where I can recruit and develop other ex-military personnel who share these attributes and help to create the strong team environments which are central to military life.
"Ian Williams is all about investing in people, just like the military. Discipline, respect and not being afraid to work hard are all recognised and rewarded. When people join us, our peer structure and mentoring schemes mean we can formally help you to transfer skillsets and disciplines engendered in the Army, RAF or Navy. Working here really is a career, not just a job.”
If you think you’d be the right fit for Ian Williams, and all the above excites you, please head over to the CTP’s online job portal, RightJob to find our latest vacancies.