Building Surveyor

Tesco UK; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company in the UK seeks a Building Surveyor responsible for ensuring store safety and functionality. This role includes conducting inspections, ensuring compliance, and managing maintenance projects. Ideal candidates will be Chartered Building Surveyors with experience in retail environments. Flexibility in work patterns is available, blending office and remote work.

Qualifications

• Chartered status with RICS or CIOB.
• Relevant degree or equivalent experience in Building Surveying or Construction.
• Experience in retail or similar is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Conduct building inspections and liaise with maintenance teams.
• Carry out surveys to identify risks and prepare specifications.
• Quality assurance checks on building maintenance works.
• Review contractor estimates for value and appropriateness.
• Support development of planned maintenance regimes.
• Provide technical input on building fabric maintenance.
• Ensure compliance with all building maintenance regulations.
• Lead maintenance projects to improve building safety.

Skills

Excellent influencing and communication skills

Technical information articulation

Collaboration across large organizations

People management and leadership

Data management

Organizational skills

Education

Chartered RICS/CIOB Building Surveyor

Degree in Building Surveying or Construction

Job description

As a Building Surveyor at Tesco, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring our stores remains a safe, functional, and welcoming environment for customers and colleagues alike. Your work will directly impact the shopping experience of thousands of customers every day. You’ll use your technical expertise to identify and resolve issues efficiently, always prioritising safety, compliance, and quality.

The Hiring Manager for this role is Dean McNulty.

• Conducting building dilapidation/defect diagnosis inspections, liaising with the wider maintenance team to ensure the right solutions are implemented for building maintenance defects.
• Carrying out building related surveys and inspections to support the field teams in identifying risks, planning works and preparing specifications for remedial works.
• Quality and cost assurance checks of maintenance building works.
• Carrying out reviews of contractors estimates for appropriateness and value for money.
• Collaborating with the wider maintenance team to support the development of planned maintenance regime (PPMs) for buildings to ensure our estate is effectively maintained.
• Providing technical input into the maintenance of building fabric across a variety of building types.
• Working closely with the maintenance teams to provide building maintenance solutions and ensure compliance.
• Lead individual maintenance projects related to the improvement of building maintenance and Health & Safety.
• Ensure statutory compliance on all matters related to building maintenance. (CDM/Work at Height/Asbestos, etc..)
• Inputting into the design standards and Building Condition Survey process to ensure that appropriate building materials are specified and survey outputs are relevant.

Operational skills

• Excellent influencing and communication skills
• Able to articulate technical information
• Excellent collaboration skills across a large organisation
• Strong people management and leadership skills
• Able to manage large quantities of data
• Excellent organisational skills

Experience

• Chartered RICS/CIOB Building Surveyor
• Degree or equivalent experience level qualification in Building Surveying or Construction
• Experience in retail or equivalent experience in Building Surveying or Construction desirable

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome.We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you. We work in a more blended pattern -combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.