Associate Building Surveyor

Workman LLP; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Annual bonus

Healthcare

Life insurance

Wellness programme

Long service holidays

Birthday off

Gym membership

Cycle to work

Referral bonus

Job summary

Workman LLP in the UK seeks an MRICS Building Surveyor to join our Building Consultancy team. The role covers contract and project work, plus professional services in areas like TDD, dilapidations and fire safety, with regular contact to fund managers, landlords and tenants.

You will manage client relationships, lead multiple instructions, and deliver timely, proactive advice while supporting junior colleagues and driving ESG initiatives.

Qualifications

• MRICS chartered surveyor status is required.
• Strong communication skills to liaise with clients, landlords and tenants.
• Ability to manage multiple building surveying instructions and deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain close client relationships with landlords, tenants and colleagues.
• Manage multiple building surveying instructions for key clients.
• Provide regular client updates and align with the client brief.
• Lead or support ESG initiatives and sustainable methods.
• Mentor junior team members and contribute to their development.

Education

MRICS Chartered Surveyor

Job description

About The Role

You will be a member of an experienced Building Consultancy team that will carry out a wide range of roles including contract and project work to professional services including TDD , dilapidations and fire safety.

About The Role

You will be a member of an experienced Building Consultancy team that will carry out a wide range of roles including contract and project work to professional services including TDD , dilapidations and fire safety. The role will require regular and direct communication with institutional fund management clients, landlords, consultants and tenants. Key clients include Columbia Threadneedle, Hammerson, M&G, Lansec, BlackRock, and Federated Hermes.

What Matters Most In This Role

Building and maintaining close professional relationships with clients, tenants and colleagues is paramount to your success. Proactiveness and using your initiative will be encouraged. You will manage multiple building surveying instructions simultaneously for a range of key clients. You will need to demonstrate your ability to work within set timelines and provide regular client updates along the journey. Understanding the client brief and delivering on their expectations is fundamental to your success. Clients will lean on your professional advice and support with schedules of dilapidations, pre-acquisition surveys, due diligence, development monitoring, defect diagnosis, fire safety advise, and schedules of condition reports. You can be preforming the role of a designer, contract administrator, project manager or a hybrid of all three.

Other duties will include:

• Successfully manage the project process from inception to completion
• Working with landlords and tenants on their ESG initiatives to ensure you are advising and delivering on the most environmental and sustainable methods and materials
• Working with team members and sharing in assisting in developing less experienced members of the team as well as taking up leadership roles
• Develop a strategic view on the live cycle of the property asset and understanding the clear objectives of the client brief
• Be available and present to assist in opportunities in the business and be keen to progress your career
• Motivate and manage a small team of surveyors from apprentice, graduate and surveyor and help support them with their further studies.

What We Expect From You

A proactive, practical, and positive approach to work is required. Excellent and professional communication skills with the ability to build a good reputation amongst clients is also paramount.

You will be an MRICS chartered surveyor.

Commercial Property Experience In a Similar Consultancy Is Preferred.

WHY WORKMAN?

• Hybrid working to offer you a great work life balance, with a minimum of three days in the office
• Core working hours allow for added flexibility and helps benefit your work life balance
• Discretionary annual bonus and salary reviews
• Healthcare, life insurance & wellness programme
• Long service additional holidays, your birthday off and an extra day between Christmas and New Year
• Lifestyle benefits to suit you: gym membership, cycle to work, buy and sell holiday to name just a few
• Social events throughout the year including a firm wide Christmas party!
• Generous referral bonus

About Workman Llp

As the UK's leading independent commercial property management specialist, Workman has an enviable position within the property industry. We are proud of our longstanding relationships with many of our clients, some of whom we have worked with for more than 25 years. Our clients include leading institutional and sector-specialist investors, private property companies, public sector bodies and a growing number of overseas investors. We pride ourselves on the calibre of our employees and their unique skill sets.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

We are an equal opportunities employer, and it is our policy to recruit a diverse workforce and follow the guidelines of the Equality Act 2010

This job description does not form part of your contract of employment and the duties may be amended from time to time.