Senior Building Surveyor

The Senior Building Surveyor is responsible for overseeing multiple projects, providing clients with expert guidance and oversight in the assessment, management, and enhancement of construction projects. This role involves conducting detailed building surveys, delivering technical solutions for structural and maintenance issues, and ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations. The Senior Building Surveyor leads project teams, liaises closely with contractors and clients to deliver safe and efficient building solutions.

This role also requires effective risk management and advice on building legislation and sustainability practices.

Organisational and Time Management

Skills:

The ability to oversee multiple projects and organise own time and deadlines to meet differing client needs.

Accuracy and Due Diligence: The ability to identify, assess, and mitigate risks with excellent technical attention to detail. Strong technical and planning skills to ensure commissions are profitable.

Effective Communication: An ability to communicate, influence and negotiate clearly and effectively across all levels, with clients and external stakeholders. Comfortable leading meetings with internal and external stakeholders.

Team Work and

Collaboration:

Good leadership capabilities through building healthy team and client relationships, fostering a positive and cooperative work environment.

Technical Knowledge &

Skills:

The ability to analyse complex situations, identify issues, and develop effective solutions. The ability to understand the administration of building contracts, applying commercial project management knowledge, so projects are delivered on time, within scope and to budget.

Knowledge Development: To maintain and establish knowledge on industry trends, regulations and best practice.

Education: Degree or Equivalent Experience in Building Surveying

Professional: MRICS/MCIOB, CIOBE or equivalent.

Software/IT Tools: AutoCAD Viewer, JCT Contract Software, NBS, GoReport and MS Projects

Driving License: Yes

Experience: It is essential anybody coming into this role has experience working within the construction industry as a building surveyor working on projects from feasibility to completion. Typically, we would look for somebody with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience having achieved professional status or being close to achieving. They should have knowledge in the following Regulations applicable to the Building Industry with the ability to identify, assess and mitigate risks within complex situations :

• Building Safety Act and Regulations
• Building Safety Act (plus amendments)
• Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015.
• BICS Professional Competence (APC) core competencies (Level
  3).
• JCT Joint Contracts Tribunal Forms of Contract.
• PQS experience.
• Qualification in fire safety standards and fire risk assessments.
• Institute of Party Wall Surveyors qualification
• Familiarity with public policy, funding mechanisms

• Managing multiple projects at one time whilst acting as the client's main point of contact in providing sound advice and design coordination.
• To calculate fees and produce fee proposals for building surveys, and ensure the fee tracker is kept up to date with relevant information, ensuring that aged debt is chased accordingly.
• Providing advisory service to clients on a range of building and property issues, including technical, financial, legal, environmental, regulatory and restoration matters.
• Providing clients with timely advice in relation to legal and planning issues, including managing the planning and building regulations application process. Liaising with local planning bodies to ensure that projects meet safety, sustainability and preservation standards. Fulfilling the role of Contract Administrator and/or Employer's Agent when required.
• Carrying out building surveys to a consistently high standard across multiple construction projects at any one time.
• Overseeing all technical reports/information in relation to commissions.
• Delivering and leading on PPMs (Planned Preventative Maintenance), Fire Compartmentation, Schedule of Condition,…