Senior Building Surveyor

Carter Jonas; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Group pension

Flexible benefits

Referral schemes

Generous annual leave

Job summary

Carter Jonas is recruiting a chartered building surveyor to join our Birmingham Building Consultancy team. The role is client facing and involves generating fees through managing and developing projects across the West and East Midlands, with a focus on commercial buildings.

You will join a four-person Birmingham team delivering a multi-disciplinary service; you will oversee surveys, schedules, feasibility studies and project management for refurbishment, conversion and new builds, while

Qualifications

• RICS chartered with experience in a commercial consultancy.
• A driving licence is essential.
• Experience advising on residential assets and managing multiple projects.
• Strong client management and business development focus.

Responsibilities

• Provide a full building surveying service to external clients and in-house where required.
• Carry out building surveys of commercial and residential properties.
• Project management, contract administration and design for refurbishment, conversion and new build projects.
• Prepare and issue feasibility studies working with other disciplines as necessary.

Education

RICS chartered

Job description

We are recruiting a chartered building surveyor to join our established Birmingham Building Consultancy team. This is an opportunity for a building surveyor to support a broad range of building surveying services predominantly across the West and East Midland regions. The successful candidate will have demonstratable experience in a commercial building consultancy environment. The position will suit an aspiring, self-motivated and enthusiastic individual looking to make a positive impression within an equally ambitious and growing business.

The main function of the role will be client facing and assist in generating fees through the management and development of existing and new projects, whilst contributing towards the achievement of financial and other objectives of the Building Consultancy and Commercial teams within the company. You will be working as part of successful team delivering a high quality of service to our client base.

The successful building surveyor will join a team of four in Birmingham which thrives as a hub office, offering a multi-disciplinary service across Commercial, Rural, Residential and Infrastructure. There is opportunity to work with a broad range of clients and will include managing commercial and residential refurbishments. The Birmingham office has a great buzz about it, with many social events and the ability to work closely with peers from other teams.

To assist and at the discretion of the Partner in charge to assume direct responsibility for carrying out:

• Provide a full building surveying service to the external clients of Carter Jonas and in house where required.
• Provide support and advice to other members of the Architecture and Building Consultancy Department and assist with workload sharing where necessary.
• Carry out Building Surveys of all types of commercial buildings and residential properties.
• Preparation of Schedules of Dilapidations and subsequent negotiations with opposing clients and professional representatives.
• Project management, Contract Administration and design for refurbishment, conversion and new build projects for commercial and residential premises.
• Prepare and issue feasibility studies working with other disciplines as necessary.
• Undertake Principal Designer role for small projects where necessary to comply with CDM 2015 for in-house and external clients. Providing professional advice to clients and others as required.
• Provide Party Wall etc Act 1996 service to Building and Adjoining owners.
• Preparation of Schedules of Condition and subsequent negotiations with opposing client’s professional representatives.
• Prepare and advise clients on Preventative Planned Maintenance and strategies for implementing the same.
• Investigating and advising client on specific building problems / defects.
• Development Monitoring on behalf of a Landlord, Tenant or for bank lending purposes.
• Reinstatement Cost Assessment advice for a broad range of property types in locations across the UK.
• Effectively manage the performance of others in the team and offer support to junior members.

What will it take to be successful?

You will be a motivated and ambitious building surveyor, who is RICS chartered, with experience in a commercial consultancy setting, ideally with experience of advising on residential assets as well. You will have an understanding of the local and national markets to support your advice the clients. As an experienced building surveyor, you have the ability to manage multiple projects as well as producing reports across the different sites. You will be excellent at managing clients both internally and externally, with the ability to also support and coach junior members of the team. A driving licence is essential for this role.

We offer a highly competitive rewards package including group pension, flexible benefits, referral schemes and generous annual leave.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are dedicated to driving diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Learning and development is important to us; we encourage everyone to continue developing to optimise their performance and fulfil their potential. We have an agile flexible working policy; many of our team work flexibly, we would be happy to talk to you about how this could work for you. We enjoy what we do, and we do it well, which is why 80% of our business comes from repeat clients.

About us:

Since 1855, Carter Jonas has grown to be one of the largest and most respected property consultancies in the UK with a network of 34 offices across England and Wales, employing more than 1,000 partners and employees.

Our tailored service and Simply Better Advice have enabled us to forge lasting, intelligent and trusting partnerships with our clients. These long-standing relationships are our most important and most closely protected asset. From private landowners to local authorities, pension funds to farmers – our universe of client experience is among the most varied in UK property.

We employ the very best people. We are a place where people want to work, and our culture is both collaborative and business minded. We have experts in every field who deliver long term advice that enhances our clients’ future prosperity.

Ahead of the curve, we are pioneering in the use of technology within the property industry, making Carter Jonas a hugely exciting place to work.

Our values:

• Approachable – We treat every relationship with respect, integrity, and warmth
• Effective – We do what we say we will, we do it well and we are accountable
• Ambitious – We are ambitious for our clients and for our firm

We look to recruit individuals who represent our core values, but who can also demonstrate the six Carter Jonas competencies that are the foundation of our career pathways. These competencies will aide their personal development in the business, and comprise of:

• Communication - Ensures effective, clear, and relevant communications in support of business objectives
• People - Demonstrates leadership in conduct and effectively manages and develops people to optimise performance through others
• Business Development & Client Care - Ensures effective communication to facilitate excellent client care and collaboration and pursuing opportunities for increased business and profit mindful of the Firm’s heritage and values
• Use of Technology - Modern, Agile, Digital Employee
• Teamwork - Recognises the importance of working with others, to collaborate and co-operate to achieve business
• Personal Effectiveness & Productivity- Engage, promote, and adhere to compliance requirements including all internal processes and procedures which manage risk and enhance productivity.