Building Services Surveyor (M&E)

MIDAS Consultancy & Engineering Ltd; Luton; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

MIDAS Consultancy & Engineering Ltd in Luton is seeking a Building Services Surveyor (M&E) to take ownership of a significant portion of our M&E asset verification work on-site. You will identify mechanical and electrical plant, record asset information accurately and complete surveys with minimal supervision.

Your first year will focus on asset verification, site surveys, photographic records, data quality and supporting report preparation, with a clear path to asset verification, then

Qualifications

• Practical building services or M&E experience.
• Understanding of mechanical and electrical building systems.
• Ability to identify plant and equipment on site.
• Genuine attention to detail; survey data must be accurate.
• Organised, methodical and able to work independently on site.
• Willing to travel around the UK; full UK driving licence.
• Able to hold a professional conversation with a client, a building manager or a site engineer.
• Eager to learn and build a career in M&E consultancy.
• Suited to a small growing consultancy rather than a large corporate structure.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of a significant amount of M&E asset verification work on site.
• Identify mechanical and electrical plant and record asset information accurately.
• Perform site surveys, including measured and technical surveys.
• Maintain photographic records and quality assure survey data.
• Produce accurate survey information and support report preparation.

Skills

Building services experience

On-site surveying

Attention to detail

Independent work

UK driving licence

Client-facing communication

Travel UK

Job description

Job title: Building Services Surveyor (M&E)

Workplace type: On-site

Job location: Luton, England, United Kingdom

Job type: Full-time

Salary: £45,000 to £55,000 per year

Midas Consultancy & Engineering is an independent M&E building services consultancy based in Luton. We work for landlords, managing agents, investors and FM teams across commercial, residential, retail and aviation property.

Our work covers M&E asset verification and asset surveys, condition surveys, lifecycle and CapEx planning, technical due diligence, compliance reviews and client side technical support.

We are a small consultancy and we are growing. That shapes this role. You will work directly with the Managing Director, you will see the whole job rather than one slice of it, and what you are capable of will decide how the role develops.

The Role

We need someone to take ownership of a significant amount of our M&E asset verification work.

In practice, that means being out on site, identifying mechanical and electrical plant, recording asset information accurately and getting the survey done properly without needing to be managed through it.

Your first year will be weighted heavily towards:

• M&E asset verification and asset data collection
• Site surveys, including measured and technical surveys
• Photographic records
• Checking, organising and quality assuring survey data
• Producing accurate survey information and supporting report preparation

We are being straightforward about that because it matters that you know what you are joining.

Where the role goes

We want this person to develop with the business. The path we have in mind is asset verification, then M&E condition surveys, then lifecycle and CapEx assessments, then wider MEP consultancy work, and in time technical due diligence.

The Managing Director will continue to lead the more complex technical consultancy and due diligence work, and will bring you into it as your knowledge builds. There is no fixed timetable on that. It depends on you, and we would rather say so than promise something we cannot control.

What we are looking for

• Practical building services or M&E experience, whether that comes from contracting, maintenance, surveying or consultancy
• A working understanding of common mechanical and electrical building systems
• Confidence identifying plant and equipment on site
• Genuine attention to detail. Survey data that is nearly right is not much use to anyone
• Organised, methodical and able to work independently on site
• Comfortable travelling around the UK
• Full UK driving licence
• Able to hold a professional conversation with a client, a building manager or a site engineer
• Willing to learn, and interested in building a career in M&E consultancy
• Suited to a small growing consultancy rather than a large corporate structure

We are open on this, which is why the salary range is wide.

If you are at the earlier end, you do not need to have written a CapEx report or run a technical due diligence. Sound fundamentals, a good attitude and real potential matter more to us than ticking every technical box, and we would rather appoint on that basis than take someone technically stronger who is not reliable or is not right for how we work.

If you are further on and already surveying and reporting independently, there is a faster route here and the top of the range reflects that. You would still spend time on asset verification early, but we would be looking to hand condition survey work across quickly rather than over years.

£45,000 to £55,000 depending on experience.

The lower end of this range is for someone with solid M&E site experience who is newer to formal survey work. The upper end is for someone already producing M&E condition surveys independently, who we would expect to be taking that work on within the first six months.

Location and travel

The role is based at our Luton office. Regular travel across the UK is part of the job, so we would ideally like you living within roughly 45 to 60 minutes of Luton.