Chartered Building Surveyor

Trident Building Consultancy Ltd; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 36,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

iPhone & Laptop

Enhanced parental leave

Private Health Care

Tax-free EOT bonus band

Life insurance (2x salary)

Cycle to Work Scheme

Electric Car Scheme

Profit sharing

Payment of professional fees

Job summary

Trident Building Consultancy Ltd in Manchester is seeking a newly qualified chartered building surveyor to join our recently established team. The role offers fast career progression and opportunities to influence the direction of the business while serving a diverse client base on various asset types.

You will gain direct exposure to clients to understand their aspirations and help us achieve them, working with a range of property professionals across commercial properties.

Qualifications

• Chartered surveyor with experience in professional and project work, including acquisition and dilapidations surveys.
• Involvement in planned preventative maintenance and contract administration.
• Experience negotiating and ensuring statutory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct exposure to clients to understand their aspirations.
• Work with a range of client types and property professionals.
• Contribute to acquisition, dilapidations surveys, and negotiations.
• Support PP maintenance, contract administration and project management.

Skills

Chartered Building Surveyor

Contract administration

Project management

Statutory compliance

Client liaison

Education

MRICS / Chartered Building Surveyor

Job description

Trident are seeking to recruit a newly qualified chartered building surveyor to join our newly established team in Manchester. There is scope for fast career progression, to get involved in the direction of the business, and work with a wide range of clients on differing asset types.

The successful candidate would get direct exposure to clients, so that they can understand our client’s aspirations and help us to achieve these. We work with various client types and their representatives when acquiring, improving and managing all types of commercial properties. The successful candidate would also get the opportunity to grow their network of local and National contacts as we work with a variety of property agents, managing agents, solicitors and other property professionals.

The opportunity is for a chartered surveyor with good experience of both professional and project work, to include; acquisition and dilapidations surveys and negotiation, planned preventative maintenance, contract administration / project management and statutory compliance.

Trident will offer a highly competitive salary package including a range of benefits:

• iPhone & Laptop to support our agile & hybrid working policy
• Enhanced maternity / paternity and adoption leave policy (after a successful probationary period)
• Private Health Care (after 3 months)
• Tax-free EOT bonus scheme – after 12 months continuous employment
• Membership to our life insurance scheme (x2 annual salary)
• Upon passing probation the company will provide you with a £20.00 monthly allowance to spend on our benefits package provider, Zhoosh, to further enhance your benefits package:
• Top up your pension contributions
• Purchase critical illness cover, in steps of £25,000 up to £250,000 maximum cover
• Purchase life insurance, in steps of £25,000 up to £250,000 maximum cover
• Purchase a bike through our cycle scheme
• Lease an electric car
• Company and team profit shares
• Payment of professional fees and membership subscriptions
• Opportunity to accrue an additional 4 long service days
• Opportunity to buy a maximum of two weeks’ additional annual leave each year
• Electric Car Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Company annual staff team building day and regular local social events

About Trident

In June 2022 Trident proudly became an Employee Ownership Trust. Trident has recently been awarded “Investors in People” Gold accreditation, which demonstrates that our people are our most important asset. Trident’s culture embraces diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) across our offices and our team enjoy a healthy work life balance that supports physical and mental wellbeing.

Trident are B Corp certified and were featured in the Sunday Times, Best Places to Work 2025! We have also partnered up with PREACH Inclusion to implement our DEI Framework. We've meticulously measured our carbon footprint and set a science-based target through SBTi (Science Based Targets Initiative), ensuring our goals are grounded in scientific consensus.

Our network of national regional and offices work as a collaborative team to provide the highest level of Building Surveying and Project Management to our enviable client list. Our agile working policy has operated since 2019 and it recognises that work is not just performed “9 to 5” in the office, allowing our staff the flexibility to vary working hours and to work remotely although we encourage staff to attend the office regularly to help promote our core values of team working and collaboration.