Senior Building Surveyor

Orpington, England, United Kingdom

11/9/2024

calfordseaden is a leading multi-disciplined construction and property consultancy. We provide a definitive range of services to the UK building and construction industry covering civil & structural engineering, building & quantity surveying, clerk of works, project management, employers agent, architecture, mechanical & electrical engineering, sustainability, building information modelling, development monitoring, expert witness, fire consultancy, party wall and health & safety.

Position

The role:

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:

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

What you’ll 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
• Experience of Retrofit and Fire Safety remediation would also be beneficial
  
  

Skills

• A full and detailed working knowledge of the most widely used forms of building contract
• 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
  
  

Our Vision:

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 values, which are integral to everything we do and are reflective of our interaction with each other, our clients, our wider stakeholders and how we approach our work and present ourselves

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

Our brilliant team consists of individuals who are willing to go the extra mile to deliver the best results and are ultimately why our clients choose to work with us time and time again.

Wellbeing and Inclusion are at the forefront of our people strategy, and we are now happy to offer hybrid working on 95% of our roles and have recently committed to enhanced Family Leave schemes (after a qualifying period). We also invest heavily in Leadership and Management Development and Female Leadership Programmes. We are passionate about encouraging more diversity within the construction industry and are looking at apprenticeship and schools outreach programmes as part of our strategy.

If you are aligned to our values and are a talented and commercially minded Building Surveyor, please apply, or if this job isn’t quite right for you but you would like to start or progress a career within construction consultancy, please send us your CV for one of our future roles.

Training and Development

The Practice is keen to assist individuals in developing work related professional interests. The Practice takes training seriously, providing practical and financial assistance to all personnel.

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

Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006: List of Documents

The Practice is required under this Act to ensure that all Employees have the right to work in the UK and the right to do the work offered.

At interview all potential Employees must provide one of the original documents set out in List A or two of the original documents in the combinations given in List B (Please see Supporting Document 1). It is not necessary to produce documents from both lists.

Photocopies of documents provided will be retained on the successful applicant’s file.

This job description will be subject to review in the light of changing circumstances and may include other duties and responsibilities as may be determined. It is not intended to be rigid or inflexible but should be regarded as providing guidelines within which the individual works.

Under General Data Protection Act 2018 all employees are responsible for records held, created or used as part of their work for calfordseaden, whether paper-based or electronic, which also includes emails. Records should be managed and stored appropriately and should in all cases comply with the requirements of the ACT.

The appointment is subject to proof of the attainment of any qualifications deemed essential to the post and used as a basis for shortlisting and selection. Failure to provide evidence of the required qualifications will result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.