Building Surveying Lead

Kier Group; Liverpool City Region; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Building Surveying Lead to guide a dynamic team in delivering exceptional building surveying services. This role offers the chance to manage a talented group while engaging with both public and private sector clients. You will be responsible for overseeing complex projects, ensuring high standards of service delivery, and driving the growth of the team. With a focus on leadership and communication, this position is perfect for those eager to make a significant impact in the field of building surveying. Join a forward-thinking company that values your expertise and ambition, and enjoy a range of competitive benefits.

Benefits

Matched Pension Scheme

Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans

Flexible Working Hours

Annual Holiday Entitlement

Qualifications

• Full membership of RICS or equivalent professional body required.
• Strong contract administration and project management skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of building surveyors and manage service delivery.
• Develop relationships with clients and drive business development activities.

Skills

Leadership Skills

Communication Skills

Contract Administration

Project Management

Commercial Awareness

Education

Full Membership of RICS

Chartered Surveyor

Tools

NBS Chorus

AutoCAD

Job description

We're looking for a Building Surveying Lead to join our Consultancy Project Services team based nationwide. Within this role, you can enjoy competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave, a fantastic, matched pension scheme, a share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans and even more.

Location: Nationwide - with remote working available, the role requires regular travel to visit staff who are currently based in Speke (near Liverpool), Lincoln, Maple Cross and Waterbeach (near Cambridge) plus various Kier and client sites nationwide.

Hours: 37.5 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

Salary: GBP60,000 to GBP70,000 plus GBP6,700 car allowance per annum.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Building Surveying Lead, you'll be leading our team of building surveyors in providing building surveying services to both internal and external clients (with the latter drawn from both the public and private sectors) where these services are for the maintenance, repair, refurbishment, remodelling, restoration, extension or demolition works to existing buildings. The role of Building Surveying Lead includes managing and providing technical leadership to our team of building surveyors, maintaining and developing relationships with internal and external clients and undertaking other business development activities.

Your day to day will include:

• Line management of Building Surveying staff, either as direct or indirect reports as dictated by the number of staff and the organisational structure, allocating staff workload and managing their achievement of target billable utilisation levels whilst personally delivering building surveying services for more complex and/or high profile commissions.
• Project managing the delivery of building surveying services to internal or external clients both in terms of service delivery to the client and the internal management of Kier's commission.
• Undertaking business development, including the maintenance and development of positive relationships with existing internal and external clients, account management when building surveying is the key supplier, identifying potential new clients and winning work.
• Managing the commercially sustainable growth of the Building Surveying team, including working with our recruitment team to bring in suitable new staff.

What are we looking for?

This role of Building Surveying Lead is great for you if:

• You hold full membership of RICS, as a Building Surveyor, and Chartered Surveyor or full membership of an equivalent professional body and Chartered status that is demonstrably relevant to building surveying, plus a full driving licence, and can demonstrate effective leadership, motivation, influencing and communication skills alongside expertise in the field of building surveying with experience as a building surveying practitioner covering a wide range of building types and sectors - ideally with experience drawn from both the public and private sectors.
• Have strong contract administration skills, with experience of JCT and NEC forms of contract, good project management skills, commercial awareness, knowledge and experience of procurement processes, especially within the public sector, and are competent in the use of NBS Chorus and AutoCAD software.
• Bring personal energy and ambition and want the opportunity to lead a team of building surveyors whilst driving the development and growth of that team.

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits: We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion: Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

We look forward to seeing your application.