Project Monitoring Surveyor

EC Recruitment Group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm is looking for a Senior Monitoring Surveyor in Edinburgh to manage a live portfolio of lender monitoring instructions. This role offers full autonomy, responsibility for project delivery, and the chance for genuine long-term progression. The ideal candidate will have experience as a Monitoring Surveyor for banks or development funders. Salary ranges from £50,000 to £70,000, with bonus potential linked to fee delivery, enabling total earnings significantly higher than base alone.

Benefits

Car allowance

Pension

Commission-style bonus

Qualifications

• Experience acting as Monitoring Surveyor for banks or development funders.
• Ability to run live instructions without supervision.
• Experience in managing multiple live projects.

Responsibilities

• Manage a live portfolio of lender and fund monitoring instructions.
• Prepare detailed due diligence and risk reports.
• Undertake regular site inspections and monthly monitoring reports.
• Liaise directly with lenders, funds, borrowers, and project teams.
• Maintain consistent reporting standards.

Skills

Proven experience as Monitoring Surveyor

QS, Building Surveying, or Project Management background

Strong technical judgement

Clear lender-friendly report writing

Ability to manage multiple projects

Confidence dealing directly with lenders

Education

MRICS (preferred)

Job description

I'm recruiting a senior Monitoring Surveyor to take immediate responsibility for an established Scottish lender portfolio. This is not a slow-burn hire, and not a training role. You'll step straight into live projects, manage your own workload, and be trusted to deliver.

If you're already doing monitoring - or doing it as a part of your current role - this is a chance to focus fully on it, with autonomy, strong fee income, and genuine long-term progression.

This appointment is part of a wider plan to grow the Scottish monitoring team. The immediate priority is delivery, but the longer-term objective is to build additional capacity beneath this role as workload continues to expand. For the right person, this develops into a senior position with influence over how the team evolves.

The Role

This is a senior, delivery-led monitoring position primarily covering Scotland's Central Belt, with the bulk of work across Glasgow and Edinburgh with some projects a little further afield (e.g Dundee, Aberdeen).

You'll manage a live caseload from day one, with responsibility for quality, judgement, and client confidence - not just site visits.

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing a live portfolio of lender and fund monitoring instructions, preparing detailed initial due diligence and risk reports, undertaking regular site inspections and monthly monitoring reports. Assessing progress, cost to complete, programme, and drawdown requests
• Liaising directly with lenders, funds, borrowers, and project teams
• Managing reporting timetables and site visits autonomously
• Maintaining consistent reporting standards across varied lender templates

Projects span private residential, serviced accommodation, PBSA, hotels, and office conversions. Values range from c.£1m schemes through to £30 million, although on occasion they do large multi-phase developments in excess of £100m.

A sensible workload is around 12-15 live projects- busy, but manageable. This will enable you to comfortably hit your bonus target.

Who This Suits

They want someone very much in the mould of the people they already trust.

You'll ideally have:

• Proven experience acting as Monitoring Surveyor for banks or development funders
• A QS, Building Surveying, or Project Management background
• Strong technical judgement and clear, lender-friendly report writing
• Confidence running live instructions without close supervision
• Experience managing multiple projects concurrently
• Comfort dealing directly with lenders and funds

MRICS is welcome but not essential if your monitoring experience is strong.

This will suit someone who: Is already specialising in monitoring, or is doing monitoring within a larger consultancy and wants to formalise that path.

Working Style

• Fully home-based
• Total autonomy over your diary
• Regional site visits across the Central Belt
• Quarterly one-day team sessions in London

There is no expectation to sit in an office. You'll be trusted to plan your time, manage your workload, and deliver.

Support is there when needed - but micromanagement is not part of the culture.

Salary, Bonus & Package

The role can be appointed at Senior or Associate Director level, depending on experience.

• Senior / Associate: £50,000 - £60,000
• Associate Director: £60,000 - £70,000 (depending on experience)

In addition to base salary:

• Car allowance
• Pension
• Commission-style bonus linked directly to your own fee delivery

The bonus is transparent and performance-led- hitting target fee levels typically delivers a circa 15% bonus, with further upside for overperformance.

Total earnings are materially higher than base alone.

Progression

At six months, success looks like being fully embedded with a double-digit live caseload.

At twelve months, you'll be a senior presence in Scotland - helping stabilise delivery and enabling future growth, including the potential to support or mentor a more junior hire.

This is a genuine senior role with influence, not just a title.

The Process

• Initial confidential conversation
• Interview focused on real monitoring scenarios
• Final sign-off

This is a live hire, and they are keen to move quickly for the right person.

Click Apply or get in touch for a confidential conversation with Andrew Pearson at EC Property Recruitment. My contact number is (phone number removed) and you can find all my details on LinkedIn