Senior Building Surveyor

Senior Building Surveyor Built Asset Solutions Leeds | Hybrid About this opportunity

We're searching for a senior building surveyor to join our Leeds office as a key member of our built asset solutions service.

This role offers the opportunity to make your mark on a new, UK wide offering exclusive to Gleeds. You'll join a growing local team, working alongside QS and PM colleagues in our longstanding Leeds office, as well as a national team of 120+ built asset solutions specialists. As senior building surveyor, you will be responsible for delivery of multi-disciplinary building surveying commissions, predominantly commercial projects with design, specification and contract administration responsibilities.

Your role will also include professional surveying work spanning dilapidations, technical due diligence, license to alter, building surveys, defect analysis, conditions and more.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Supporting business unit directors in delivering business objectives

Positively engaging with customers and developing, growing, and maintaining customer relationships Delivering high quality services and ensuring that building surveying deliverables meet customer’s requirements

Managing projects to deliver high quality services and deliverables in accordance with business procedures

Managing building surveying commissions, including surveys, dilapidation advice, party wall advice, and construction projects for new builds, renovations and maintenance works – from feasibility through to design, contract administration to handover and post completion reviews

Preparing and managing planned maintenance programmes

Quality monitoring of construction projects

Planning service delivery in conjunction with the Director with overall responsibility for the project

Communicating with and providing good sound professional advice to both clients and other project team members

Ensuring that all quantitative and financial information has been independently checked before issue, including maintaining evidence of independent checks

Remaining in the remit of your role and when additional responsibilities need to be carried out, conduct this in a fully informed manner with the approval of your line manager

Producing and presenting to customers

Managing services delivery for profit

Advising directors promptly of any issues that have arisen, or that might arise, on projects; in particular those that might impact on Gleeds professional indemnity (PI) insurance

Identifying new business development opportunities and driving growth across the Business Unit activities

As a Gleeds team member, you will have access to:

Opportunities to develop and grow your careerA contributory pension scheme

Employee Assistance Programme Flexible working arrangements

Who we’re looking for:

Experience, Knowledge and Key Skills Sound Building Surveying experience post MRICS qualification

Sound knowledge of construction methods and materials

Good knowledge of construction procurement strategies, including tendering and contract strategies

Ability to administer construction contracts as Contracts Administrator and Employers Agent Clear understanding of legislation impacting on building contracts

Clear and effective communication skills – both oral and written

Good organisational skills and the ability to quickly adapt to changes

Sound problem solving, negotiating skills, financial and numeracy management skills

Ability to absorb complex information and assess requirements readily

Sound ICT Skills, with a high level of proficiency in MS Outlook, Word, Excel and Power Point Ability  to work as part of a team

QualificationsMRICS (Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) ORMCIOB (Member of the Chartered Institute of…