Associate Building Surveyor

Our small Canadian-born business was founded in 1978 and has become a global organization that now spans 120 locations across 20 countries. Our expansion has been rapid, but what matters most is the common belief that drives all 5,000 of our people to be a different type of real estate organization. We believe that the places in which we live, work and play have the power to make us happier and healthier, and we are united by a shared sense of purpose, to have a positive impact on people’s lives.

In short, we are a global commercial real estate advisory firm with a simple aim: for real estate to play a leading role in creating vibrant buildings, cities and places that deliver long-lasting social value and economic impact.

We believe that our industry is changing, and we want our business to be a melting pot of curious minds, passionate hearts and strategic intelligence. Your gender, religion and race are all highly respected, but are less important to us than your ability to step up and change the game. We provide you with a place where you can do just that, with like-minded people.

Collaboration is embedded in the way we work – our people have the autonomy to collaborate on client relationships, engage teams across the business, lead operations, work collectively on projects, participate in strategy and are ultimately responsible for our growth. Our distinctive Principal-led, privately-owned model puts us in the enviable position of being able to offer every employee the opportunity to own a share of our business and inspires and allows anyone to become a Principal.

This role carries voting rights, so our people have a very real say in the future direction and operation of our business. This means that we are able to attract, engage and retain the best talent from the industry.

In joining the Building Division, you will enjoy a high quality and diverse range of instructions. The focus of the position is likely to concentrate on Contract Administration and Project Management, together with professional matters. Your duties will include:

• Contract administration and Project Management
• Project Monitoring
• Building technical due diligence surveys
• Dilapidations
• Planned maintenance schedules

The successful candidate should be a well-rounded ambitious Chartered Building Surveyor with a solid background in technical due diligence work, professional and project work.

Candidates would ideally have experience working in the office, and industrial sectors, and with fund orientated clients. Experience working with Local and/or Central Government clients will also be beneficial in this role.

We welcome candidates keen to maintain a mixed and flexible “diet” of varied surveying work whilst working with us to continue to expand our client base, whilst servicing existing and established clients.

You are expected to be fully comfortable with working in a multi-disciplinary Chartered Surveying and Engineering environment, shall be conversant with the West Midlands market and have excellent technical skills and commercial acumen.

Key attributes will include:

• Client focus and client management
• MRICS Charted Building Surveyor (desirable)
• Personal drive coupled with the ability to develop qualified surveyors
• Teamwork and ability to organize team members to deliver required services
• Communication
• Commerciality
• Business generation, client entertainment and networking
• Cross-divisional working

We are committed to providing high quality, value added advice. You will be expected to demonstrate at interview examples of work you have undertaken to demonstrate you have the ability to work at the highest level delivering the attributes highlighted above.

At Avison Young, we’ve always put people at the heart of what we do.

In the last few years, we’ve increased the diversity at our board, leadership and Principal levels. Avison Young stands out for our commitment to empowering women. In addition to increasing the number of women on our board and in our leadership ranks, our internal Women’s Network of more than 500 members come together for networking and learning, and advise the business on…