Senior Building Surveyor

Access Talent Group; Bristol; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Senior Project Manager/Building Surveyor in Bristol. This role requires a Chartered Surveyor with strong experience in managing large construction projects and excellent leadership skills. Responsibilities include project delivery, risk management, and team motivation. The position offers competitive salary and opportunities for career development, making it ideal for ambitious professionals who thrive in collaborative environments.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience managing design commissions on large building/infrastructure projects.
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to manage and motivate a team.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the project to targets: programme, budget, and quality.
• Identify and agree project objectives with the Project Director.
• Manage contractual/commercial risk at the earliest opportunity.

Skills

Client relationship management

Team leadership

Project management

Negotiation

Commercial awareness

Education

Chartered Surveyor (MRICS) or equivalent

Tools

BIM

3D modelling tools

Job description

Overview

This role has excellent prospects for a Building Surveyor who has a strong ambition to progress and enjoys working collaboratively within a vibrant team and has experience in managing client relationships and specific interest / experience of project management.

As a Senior Project Manager / Building Surveyor you be responsible for delivery of multi-disciplinary projects from concept through to construction, on our expanding portfolio of challenging projects across our Market Sectors.

Responsibilities

• The successful delivery of the project to agreed targets, e.g., programme, budget and quality.
• Identifying and agreeing project objectivities with the Project Director and developing a strategy for achieving these.
• Identifying, escalating and managing any matters that could pose a potential contractual/commercial risk to the Project Director (PD) at the earliest opportunity.
• Utilising commercial manager support to obtain clear understanding of contractual obligations and negotiating amendments.
• Setting objectives, and defining tasks for the project team, delegating authority and agreeing how risks will be shared as necessary.
• Actively managing the project – both technically and financially, in accordance with corporate and business policies, directives, guidance and procedures. Whilst monitoring and reporting performance against programme, technical quality, financial and KPI targets; taking, or advising the PD on the requirements for, any necessary mitigation actions to prevent targets being missed, controlling change and managing effective change control process.
• Leading the project team – building, motivating, maintaining, coaching, guiding and developing the team; including providing regular feedback to all team members and ensuring staff have the necessary H&S training for discharging their design duties and defining line of communication and the responsibilities for co-ordination within the project.
• Assembling and owning the project delivery programme and delivery plans; providing project reports on a regular basis to convey cost and schedule information.
• Closing out the project on completion, archiving project documentation, updating market information, ensuring that lessons learnt are captured and disseminated internally and ensuring that a Client Satisfaction survey is initiated.

Requirements

• Chartered Surveyor (MRICS) or equivalent with demonstrable experience managing design commissions on large building/ infrastructure projects.
• Excellent interpersonal, organisational and communication skills both verbal and written.
• Ability to manage and motivate a team and demonstrate good leadership qualities.
• Understands and has experience in deploying various forms of construction contract, in particular NEC3 and JCT.
• Experienced at preparing Scope Definition papers, Project Execution Plans, Risk Registers, Change Control Logs and Client & Stakeholder Management plans.
• Experience of managing design projects to time, cost and quality objectives and familiar with programming and earned value techniques.
• Familiar with BIM and has an understanding of 3D modelling tools for design and coordination purposes.
• Customer focused with excellent client relationship management skills.
• A supportive and encouraging approach to mentoring less experienced members of the team. Be available to travel across the UK and work away from home, when required.
• Holds a valid UK driving licence.

Our client is offering a competitive salary and a fantastic opportunity for career development, for more information and to apply for the position submit your CV to this vacancy.

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