Senior Building Surveyor

Senior Building Surveyor

Location: Orpington / Hybrid

Hours: 35pw

As a Chartered Senior Building Surveyor, you will lead and deliver a broad range of surveying services, managing complex projects and maintaining strong client relationships. You’ll also support junior members of the team with their ongoing development.

What you'll be doing:

1. Leading and managing a variety of building surveying projects, ensuring they’re delivered on time, within budget and to the required standards
2. Building and maintaining strong relationships with existing and potential clients, providing professional advice and identifying new business opportunities
3. Provide expert advice and guidance on building surveys, condition reports, party wall matters, defects and other related areas
4. Prepare detailed and accurate reports, specifications, schedules, drawings and other related contract documentation
5. Undertake reviews of sites to identify and manage potential risks, ensuring that health and safety, legal and environmental considerations are taken into account
6. Share knowledge with and mentor junior members of the team

What you need:

Qualifications

• A Degree in a related subject
• MRICS or similar or significant progress towards the qualification
• Must have full UK driving licence and access to transport

Knowledge

• An understanding of building construction and property law, e.g. Party Wall (etc) Act 1996
• An understanding of construction risks, costs and economics
• Experience of Pre-contract matters and the ability to take a project through its lifecycle
• Familiarity with standard forms of contract including the JCT suite
• A full and detailed working knowledge of the most widely used forms of building contract
• Experience of Retrofit and Fire Safety remediation would also be beneficial

Skills

• Ability to produce good quality written reports
• Good numerical skills
• Good communication and people skills
• Mentoring skills to help develop more junior staff
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word and Outlook

What we offer

People are at the heart of everything we do, which is why we invest in them at every stage of their career. We are proud to hold the Investors in People Gold award, which we believe demonstrates our commitment to nurturing our people. Structured Apprenticeships and work experience opportunities are available across the organisation to support those at the beginning of their careers. We also have career development pathways to help you understand and structure your professional development.

We provide a range of benefits including hybrid working, the option to buy and sell annual leave, enhanced annual leave for long service, sponsorship for qualifications, a recruitment referral bonus scheme, enhanced family leave policies, an employee assistance programme, and more!

Who we are

We’re a multi-disciplinary property and construction consultancy with offices in Orpington, London, Birmingham, Essex, Cambridge, and Hampshire. With 80 years of experience of delivering award-winning projects across all major sectors, we’re committed to making a positive difference in the communities we serve.

Our vision is to be identified as a trusted client advisor; national in reach, local in service, and selected for our quality and expertise in the built environment. Our brilliant team consists of individuals who are passionate about delivering the best results and continuously demonstrate why our clients choose us to help bring their projects to life. You can find out more about our work on our website www.calfordseaden.com

Our values are integral in everything we do. They shape the way we work with clients and each other. Our values are:

• Collaboration - Being one team and supporting each other to achieve the best results and maximise our potential.
• Authenticity - Being true to ourselves and others and celebrating our differences.
• Giving Back - Recognizing and embracing the need for our work to have a positive social impact.
• Excellence - Striving to be up with the best and at the forefront of what we do.
• Support - Providing investment, encouragement and support to bring out the best in our People.
• Integrity - Being honest and doing the right thing

If you are a talented individual, with a commercial mind, and align to our values, please apply. If this job isn’t quite right for you but you would like to start or progress a career within our construction consultancy, please connect with us so you can be notified about relevant future vacancies.

calfordseaden is an Equal Opportunities Employer and is committed to supporting the principles of equality of opportunity in employment, training, and service delivery.