Senior Building Surveyor

Our client is a major Civil design, engineering and project management consultancy, they currently have an opportunity for a Senior Chartered Building Surveyor/ Senior Building Surveyor to join their Newcastle office covering the Northeast region, and to work in a multi-disciplinary environment to deliver a full suite of Building Surveying duties.  

Responsibilities:  

- Working across a number of projects in different sectors and providing a range of building surveying / project management duties. Local Authority/ Government agencies would be an advantage.  

- Assisting with the development of new and repeat business.  

- Managing the client relationship and service delivery on a project by project basis in conjunction with senior colleagues.  

Supporting Practice Management in the day-to-day running of the business, you’ll also be involved with the following:  

- Project management and Contract Administration duties for larger projects.  

- Condition and measured surveys.  

- Designing and implementing small – medium sized projects.  

- Due diligence surveys.  

- The use and application of standard forms of building contracts, such as JCT and NEC.  

- Keeping abreast of industry issues and developments in best practice.  

- Experience of defect analysis, undertaking building surveys and producing professional reports and specifications.  

- Mentoring and training junior Building Surveyors as well as an active participation in the APC programme.  

- Understand the principles of quality, safety and the environment within the management of projects.  

- Report to your line manager and undertake work activities as defined by your manager.  

- Networking to develop the organisation's local presence.  

- Networking to develop business opportunities.  

- Take the lead in developing and issuing bids in compliance with the organisation's governance requirements.  

- Take the lead in taking instructions and running jobs and commissions.  

- Lead design teams.  

- Undertake role of principal designer in accordance with the organisation's requirements.  

- Provide project management services.

- BSc (Hon's) Building Surveying RICS Accredited degree or similar.  

- Full member of The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, MCIOB or similar. Desirable but not mandatary.  

- Ability to demonstrate good all-round surveying experience and be client facing with work winning skills.  

- Experienced in project design, leading multidisciplinary refurbishment and extension projects, up to c£1m capex.  

- Experience of both pre and post contract project management responsibilities and be able to deliver this service effectively to Clients.  

- Good team working skills and ability to communicate well at all levels.  

- Prepared to travel as required.  

- To liaise with senior colleagues to help build a profitable service and positive, high performing team environment.  

- Strong IT skills, Word and Excel as a minimum. Candidates should be able to produce, edit and format documents.  

- AutoCAD skills as a minimum, experience of using Revit would be an advantage.  

- Ability to manage and develop team members including mentoring of APC graduates.  

- Experience of managing clients and their expectations.  

- Full understanding of Health and Safety requirements, including CDM 2015.  

- Experience of performing the role of Principal Designer, would be advantageous.  

This position would be an excellent opportunity for a Senior Chartered or Senior Building Surveyor with post qualification experience, to develop their career within a forward-thinking organisation.