Building Surveyor (Part-Time) - Gloucestershire

JR United Kingdom; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a historic landscape team at Westonbirt National Arboretum in managing and maintaining structured built estates. This role involves project planning to achieve net-zero targets and ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations, offering a well-rounded role with competitive benefits.

Benefits

Contributory pension scheme with 27% employer contribution

Annual Leave - 111 hours available

Balanced working arrangements

Access to extensive online learning

Professional training and development opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Experience in Building Surveying or equivalent role is necessary.
• Chartered status (MRICS / MCIOB) progress is preferred.
• Excellent communication skills required.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and organize maintenance of existing buildings.
• Plan and monitor maintenance works adhering to regulations.
• Manage contracts using NEC4 forms.

Skills

Building pathology

Defect diagnosis

Specification writing

Contract management

Health and safety

Education

Degree in Building Surveying

Job description

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27.06.2025

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Job Description:

Your new company
How does working across a Grade 1 historic landscape and internationally important tree collection sound to you?
Joining the team at Westonbirt National Arboretum will provide exactly this opportunity. This site includes almost 40 built assets and infrastructure supporting a vision in education, participation, and conservation.
Several buildings are tenanted which includes the restaurant, shop, and three houses. There are a number of architectural styles and unusual buildings including heritage buildings from the 1850's, multiple timber frames including the community shelter, and a number of award-winning buildings including the Welcome Building, build in 2014 and awarded BREEAM 'Excellent', and the award-winning Wolfson Tree Management Centre.
Your new role
Your day-to-day job will be varied and will include overseeing and organising maintenance of the existing buildings, procuring and supervising contractors to ensure that the built estate is maintained and enhanced. Joining a small capital development team will mean that you'll work closely with a programme manager, project manager, and works supervisor. You will lead on planning, delivery, and supervision of estates planned and reactive maintenance work. This includes delivering projects to help achieve net-zero by 2040.

• Plan, procure, implement, and monitor programmes of work including planned and reactive maintenance to a high standard ensuring compliance with statutory regulations.
• Active communication with different teams to co-ordinate works.
• Deliver professional building management across the estate including the management of utilities and services by the most efficient means.
• Administer contracts using NEC4 forms of contract.
• Improve financial and environmental sustainability working towards Net Zero.
• Support capital investment team with ongoing works, which could include business case development.
• Keep project and asset records up to date on GIS Forester Web and on SharePoint.
• Regularly monitor contractor health and safety.

What you'll need to succeed

• Previous experience working in a similar Building Surveying or equivalent role (planning, supervising and instruction of maintenance, or development works).
• Proficient knowledge in building pathology, defect diagnosis, specification writing.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience of forecasting and managing budgets for capital and revenue works.
• Procure and contract manage building works contracts.
• Understanding building health and safety, overseeing contractors and statutory compliance.
• Either achieved, or making progress towards chartered status (MRICS / MCIOB).
• Degree in Building Surveying or equivalent construction related profession.

What you'll get in return
A role with Forestry England isn't just about the salary! Learn more about Forestry England - Welcome | Forestry England | Hays UK

• Salary (pro-rata x 3 days per week) - £23,418 (pro-rata)
• Annual Leave - 111 hours of annual leave available per year (pro-rata)

A role with Forestry England will provide and offer a wide range of benefits to include:

• Balanced and blended working arrangements.
• Access to extensive online learning.
• BPD events, professional training, and development.
• Contributory pension scheme that you may enter as soon as you join, where employer makes 27% contribution, and where your contributions come out of your salary before any tax is taken.
• Shared parental leave, maternity leave, paternity leave, enhanced adoption leave, and more.
• Bike to work scheme, employee assistance programme, dedicated wellbeing team and more.

What you need to do now
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