Construction Development Surveyor

Job Details

Job reference: VAC
008388
Date posted: 10/06/2026
Final date to receive applications: 12/07/2026

Location:

100 Temple Street, Redcliffe, Bristol, BS1 6AN

Salary: BG12-13: £42,839 - £50,269
Package:
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Contractual hours: 37
Basis:
Full time
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The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Full Time, Permanent
Delivering High Quality, Affordable New Housing Developments for Bristol.

Can you help us deliver more high quality, affordable homes in Bristol to help ensure the city’s success benefits all our citizens? With a diverse and growing population, Bristol is regularly voted one of the best places to live in the UK and we need to deliver more homes to tackle the crisis of housing affordability and supply that the city faces.

Bristol City Council is delivering its biggest affordable housing delivery programme for decades. We are focusing our land, resources and influence to create a step change in the way Affordable Housing is delivered in Bristol and significantly increase delivery of high-quality market and affordable homes. Alongside delivery through our Registered Provider Partners and our own housing development company, Goram Homes, the Council also has ambitious plans to build high quality Council Homes.

This role will focus on direct delivery of new Council Homes (primarily Social Rent, with some Shared Ownership) on council-owned land in the city and the acquisition of homes from the market.

The Role

The Council’s Housing Delivery Service has one Permanent full time vacancy for a Construction Development Surveyor to manage the delivery of new-build housing development projects, delivering new homes and residential-led community facilities and public realm. This role is based in the Housing Delivery Team, working citywide on various projects. The team manages the delivery of high-quality affordable housing developments through the whole project lifecycle, from early stage site feasibility and de-risking work, community engagement and planning applications, through to appointing contractors, detailed design and construction, and handover of completed homes to the client.

This Construction Development Surveyor role will focus primarily on the construction and delivery stage of projects which already have planning consent; you will be involved with the tendering to appoint construction contractors and to assist with the management of the construction on site. Delivery of housing may be through developer led or via the purchase of Street properties, you will need to have oversight of delivery depending on the scope of the project.

Projects typically range in size from 5 to 30 residential dwellings and depending on the project may involve traditional construction methods or Modern Methods of Construction (MMC). The Construction Development Surveyor will be responsible for overseeing the contracts with appointed contractors during the enabling works and on-site construction stages, to deliver developments to the agreed programme, costs, scope and design quality specification, and effectively manage risks to successful delivery of the agreed project outcomes.

You will have project and contract management, budget management, and technical construction knowledge and experience and be able to demonstrate a track record of overseeing the construction of new housing developments. Other key skills and experience which candidates will need to demonstrate include overseeing enabling work, including demolition; having a working knowledge of Health & Safety practices and legislation in construction;

knowledge of legislation and policy affecting development, including Planning;
Tendering processes and evaluation; running regular project delivery meetings with multi-disciplinary teams; conflict management, and negotiation skills; and contributing positively to team skills development and team building. You will also likely have a relevant qualification in Surveying,…