Senior / Associate Building Surveyor

Currie & Brown

Manchester

On-site

GBP 40,000 - 60,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

A leading construction consultancy in Manchester is seeking a chartered Senior / Associate Building Surveyor to manage and deliver various building surveying services. This role offers the chance to work on prestigious projects across public and private sectors, facilitating a career with clear progression. The ideal candidate should possess a relevant degree and be organised, proactive, and skilled in technical communication and AutoCAD.

Qualifications

BSc in building surveying or equivalent is required.
Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors beneficial.
Significant exposure to private and public sector clients beneficial.

Responsibilities

Delivering projects, commissions, and professional assignments from inception to completion.
Maintaining effective communication to ensure successful completion of projects.
Visiting sites to undertake surveys and meet with sub-contractors and clients.

Skills

Good technical writing and communication skills

Proficient in AutoCAD

Well-organised

Team player

Good IT skills

Education

BSc in building surveying or equivalent

Membership of MRICS

Tools

AutoCAD

NBS

MS Project

Job description

Overview

Currie & Brown is looking for a chartered Senior / Associate building surveyor to join our Manchester office. The successful candidate will be part of a team of building surveyors covering all aspects of professional and project-related building surveying across the private and public sector.

The successful candidate will support project leaders in generating a high standard of service delivery, achieving successful outcomes for our clients, capturing and sharing knowledge across projects, enhancing our culture of innovation and reinforcing our reputation as a preferred service provider.

Working in this role will involve assisting in the management of client and project teams to deliver building surveying services profitably and on time to a wide range of clients. The role will cover the full spectrum of building surveying services, including design and specification, clerk of works, contract administration, building surveys and dilapidations.

Our building surveying team has a broad-based background, is a highly motivated group with varying levels and types of experience and is the ideal place for you to commence and progress your career in the profession with many opportunities to learn from the team and our commissions.

As a building surveyor your core duties will involve:

Delivering projects, commissions, and professional assignments from inception to completion

Maintaining effective communication to ensure all information is available for the successful completion of projects and liaising with other managers to ensure efficient financial control

Assist with the managing of client/project teams to deliver building surveying services profitably and on time

Visit sites to undertake surveys, visit construction sites, meet with sub-contractors, contractors, clients and other staff as required to deliver projects.

Delivering all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner

Representing the company in a professional and diligent manner, meeting, negotiating and corresponding with clients to form strong and long-lasting working relationships

What skills and attributes are we looking for

BSc in building surveying or equivalent

Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) beneficial

Good technical writing and communication skills (both internal and external)

Proficient skills in the use of AutoCAD and NBS beneficial

Experience in the higher education, local government and healthcare sectors beneficial

Significant exposure to, and good working relations with, private and public sector clients beneficial

Well-developed skills in the areas of surveys, project management, clerk of works, repairs and maintenance beneficial

Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined and commercially astute

A team player with a ‘can-do’ attitude

Outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful and flexible when speaking to colleagues and clients alike

Good IT skills (AutoCAD, NBS, MS Project, Outlook, Word, Excel and other bespoke software)

About Us

Why choose Currie & Brown?

Unlike some businesses, we prioritise for the long term and honour our commitments. We are compassionate and inclusive in the way we approach our work, and always look to invest in our people’s futures. Be it a desire to work internationally, a drive to progress, or even a curiosity to operate in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage – providing advice, support and the structure to achieve. That is why so many of us have established and built successful careers here for so long.

We don’t offer just a job we offer a career with clear structured route to progression, and a track record of making international mobility happen with international moves encouraged on a permanent or secondment basis.

We are an international industry leader – Working for us provides the chance to work for a leading brand with a focus on excellence, being digitally-led in our approach, we present the chance to work on some of the world’s most prestigious projects and for some of the world’s top clients.

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day and that is why we firmly believe equality, diversity and inclusion should be taken seriously. Diverse people, backgrounds and experiences develop the most innovative of ideas, they are essential to our success, that is why we actively encourage applications from all backgrounds.

We are a truly independent business where our people are empowered to make quick, agile decisions that drive real impact. As part of Sidara, we collaborate directly with some of the world’s brightest partner brands in our industry, offering exciting opportunities to innovate and grow.

We offer comprehensive benefits packages in all our global regions which have been specifically tailored to offer additional rewards to our employees from entry level to senior executives.

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