Senior Building Surveyor

Currie & Brown Group Limited; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a chartered or senior building surveyor for their Cardiff office. In this dynamic role, you'll be part of a collaborative team delivering comprehensive building surveying services across various sectors. Your responsibilities will include managing projects from inception to completion, ensuring effective communication, and fostering strong client relationships. The ideal candidate will possess a BSc in Building Surveying and demonstrate proficiency in tools like AutoCAD and NBS. Join this innovative firm and contribute to impactful projects while enhancing your professional skills in a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• BSc in Building Surveying or equivalent is essential.
• Membership of RICS (MRICS) is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Deliver projects from inception to completion while maintaining effective communication.
• Manage client/project teams to deliver services profitably and on time.

Skills

Technical Writing

Communication Skills

Project Management

Client Relationship Management

Teamwork

Proactive Problem Solving

Education

BSc in Building Surveying or Equivalent

Membership of RICS (MRICS)

Tools

AutoCAD

NBS

MS Project

Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel)

Job description

Currie & Brown is one of the leading International physical asset management and construction consultancies, dedicated to advising clients worldwide with our expertise and experience in multiple sectors and services. We are differentiated by our people, innovation and reputation with a genuine global office network.

Our people, from the first-day apprentice to senior management, make our business what it is today. Everybody in the Currie & Brown family, no matter how experienced they are, plays their own unique part in our success and have fun along the way.

The role – what is it we would like you to do?

Currie & Brown is looking for a chartered or senior building surveyor to join our Cardiff 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.

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, 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 from you:

• 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)