Senior Chartered Building Surveyor
Listed on 2026-10-08
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Construction
Regulatory Compliance Specialist, Building & Residential Construction, Quantity Surveyor
Senior Building Surveyor
Our London building surveying team has a gap at senior level, offering a Senior Building Surveyor the chance to run their own instructions, develop junior staff, and progress toward Associate and beyond.
Behind the London office is a national consultancy offering a full range of building surveying services. It works closely with agency and investment colleagues who pass instructions across the team. Industrial, logistics and offices make up most of the work, and returning clients keep it steady even while the transactional market is quieter.
The Senior Building Surveyor RoleExpect roughly half project work and half professional work. You'll have your own caseload and be responsible for delivering it profitably. Contract administration and project management runs up to around £5m, and a specialist PM team picks up anything larger.
You'll deal with clients every day and be expected to grow accounts, turning first instructions into wider commissions. Mentoring the apprentices and checking their work also sits with you.
- Running landlord and tenant dilapidations through to negotiated settlement
- Leading technical due diligence on industrial, logistics and office acquisitions
- Contract administering and project managing refurbishments up to c.£5m
- Undertaking defect investigations and root cause analysis
- Preparing planned maintenance programmes for portfolio clients
- Advising on party wall and rights of light matters
- Writing fee proposals and developing follow-on work
- Reviewing reports and supervising apprentice surveyors
Someone who can run a caseload independently and is ready to build a name with clients.
The Senior Building Surveyor will ideally have:- MRICS with strong post-qualification experience
- A commercial consultancy background covering both project and professional work
- Dilapidations and contract administration experience
- A track record of managing clients and generating fees
- Experience mentoring junior surveyors
- £65,000 - £77,000 basic salary
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Company pension scheme
- RICS membership fees paid
- Hybrid working, usually two days a week in the office
Senior Building Surveyor / Senior Chartered Building Surveyor / MRICS / London
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