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Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Principal Building Surveyor to join their team in Greater London. The role involves managing commercial surveying projects, delivering exceptional client service, and mentoring junior staff. Candidates should be MRICS qualified with strong communication and commercial awareness. This position offers opportunities for professional growth and contribution to sustainable solutions.

Qualifications

  • Minimum 3 years PQE in Building Surveying.
  • Ability to manage tasks from inception to completion.

Responsibilities

  • Manage commercial building surveying work and client relationships.
  • Oversee technical consultancy commissions and ensure profitability.

Skills

Team Player
Commercial Awareness
Effective Communication

Education

Degree and MRICS qualified

Job description

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Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

We have an exciting opportunity for a Principal Level Chartered Building Surveyor, to join our established L&I Technical Due Diligence & Commercial Building Surveying team.

The core responsibilities will largely relate to commercial building surveying with a varied workload including professional and technical advisory.

The successful candidate will be expected to be technically excellent and have a broad range and experience of commercial surveying / consultancy. Additionally, the candidate should be able to commission manage multiple instructions.

The job will involve a mixed and varied workload with often the need to balance a number of different instructions simultaneously.

The candidate will largely be focused on service delivery, often working as part of a larger commission team and supporting to achieve exceptional outcomes for our clients. The candidate should be confident in dealing direct with the client.

The candidate will be required to manage their time effectively to meet deadlines and ensuring time expended aligns with the cost forecast to ensure profitability of instructions, (financial performance responsibility).

Role accountabilities:

  • The role includes predominantly commercial building surveying work along with some Project Management across a range of building types although largely commercial. Experience in professional work such as dilapidations would be desirable.
  • The position includes a relatively high level of responsibility and accountability with an opportunity to develop managerial as well as technical knowledge and skills, and to progress within a successful and growing specialist team.
  • To manage risk in service delivery and contribute to service delivery improvement initiatives.
  • To demonstrate organic revenue growth and implementation of the business plan in terms of the commercial building surveying offering.
  • To manage and undertake professional technical consultancy commissions including Technical Due Diligence, condition surveys, LTAs, PPM schedules etc.
  • To effectively communicate ensuring all information is available for the successful implementation and completion of projects.
  • to liaise with the Project Managers and Team Leaders to ensure efficient financial control resulting in a cost effective service.
  • to represent the company in a professional and diligent manner.
  • to ensure the Sector Director has quantified information on the progress of each contract on a regular basis
  • to support with mentoring and supervising junior building surveyors

Qualifications & Experience:

  • Degree and MRICS qualified (minimum 3 years PQE).
  • Multi-discipline experience.
  • A team player who can develop and maintain excellent relationships and gain the confidence of other professionals both within the Company and outside.
  • A broad thinker who can take a global view and has an inherent ability to deliver successfully.
  • Able to manage own tasks from inception through to completion.
  • Able to maintain total confidentiality at all times.
  • A flexible attitude.
  • Able to manage priorities.
  • Commercially aware and financially astute.
  • Ability to provide good concise commercial advice.
  • Provision of concise and commercial advice to our clients.
  • Demonstrate effective communication and management skills for service delivery.
  • Work effectively in a team.
  • Represent the company; meeting, negotiating and corresponding with clients forming a strong working relationship in true partnership
  • Develop strong working relationships with clients
  • Manage client expectations
  • Deliver all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner
  • Provide guidance to junior team members

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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