Senior Building Surveyor

Colliers; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in commercial real estate services is seeking a Building Surveyor to provide exceptional advice and service to clients. This role involves assisting with bids, producing high-quality reports, and developing strong client relationships. The ideal candidate will be a Chartered Building Surveyor with 2-3 years of experience in commercial building surveying. Join a dynamic team that values innovation and collaboration, and make a significant impact in the real estate sector. This is a fantastic opportunity to grow your career while contributing to meaningful projects across the UK and EMEA.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years PQE in commercial building surveying required.
• Must be a Chartered Building Surveyor.

Responsibilities

• Assist with bids for building surveying multi-market mandates.
• Produce high-quality written reports for clients.
• Develop client relationships and provide excellent customer service.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Written Communication

Verbal Communication

Organization

Time Management

IT Skills (MS Office)

Education

Chartered Building Surveyor

Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors Membership

Tools

MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Project Management Software

Job description

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Company Description

Colliers is a leading commercial real estate services company, providing a full range of services to real estate occupiers, developers, and investors on a local, national, and international basis. Services include brokerage sales and leasing (landlord and tenant representation), real estate management, valuation, consulting, project management, project marketing and research. We provide our services across the core sectors (office, industrial, retail and hotel) as well as many specialised property types.

The EMEA Occupier Services business is headquartered in London, with over 100 specialists delivering a range of services to corporate occupier clients. Our Occupier Services team works as an extension of a client’s own real estate team. We bring a unique combination of deep expertise within each integrated service area and an enterprising culture. Our people make a difference through our passion for flexibility, innovation and speed. We have the experience in tenant representation transaction and project management, developing cost-saving strategies to implementing technology and workplace solutions to fuel growth. Our team works to maximize efficiencies for our clients’ businesses.

Job Description

A Building Surveyor at Colliers provides excellent professional advice and service to clients and is a member of a key talent pool within the organisation. A Building Surveyor at Colliers International is entrusted with the organisation’s reputation and is expected to live its values.

• Be enterprising to exceed expectations
• Collaborate to drive exceptional results
• Invest in relationships to deliver enduring value
• Be experts to lead our industry into the future
• Do what's right for our clients, people and communities

The Colliers competency framework outlines who our people need to be and the behaviours they should display to meet the expectations of clients, colleagues and stakeholders. The 3 competencies encapsulate what a successful professional at Colliers looks like for each: knowledge, skills, mindset.

Position Summary

• To assist with bids for building surveying multi-market mandates, across the UK and EMEA. This will include collating fees from our in-country teams, and assessing in country capabilities
• To undertake building surveying instructions for a wide range of UK corporate clients including Santander, Bupa along with other smaller clients with ad-hoc instructions.
• Ensure that Building Surveying instructions are undertaken in a consistent manner and in line with our service agreements.
• To act as a best practice lead for Occupier Services across EMEA for Building Surveying services.
• The role is in our Enterprise Project management team
• We regularly interact with 800 Project managers, Building Surveyors and Cost Managers across EMEA and our OS EMEA team (c. 150)

Main Responsibilities

• To ensure that work is conducted in line Colliers Best Practice standards.
• To support account managers with building surveying instructions and ensure such activities and deliverables are consistent and in line with contract service levels.
• Produce high quality written reports for clients including dilapidations, schedules of condition, contract administration.
• To develop client relationships and provide excellent customer service.
• To provide intel for our clients and help keep them up to date with industry best practice.
• To self-generate fee income (target to be agreed) and to work diligently to meet team and Business target.
• To seek opportunities to develop new business including cross-selling and identification of new business.
• To promote cross team collaboration to ensure client’s success; this could be suggesting continuous improvement actions based upon project outcomes.
• Undertake building surveys and provide clients with expert advise on building maintenance, repair and refurbishments.

Qualifications

• Must possess excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
• Must possess excellent organisation and time management skills.
• Must possess sound IT skills, particularly MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Project.
• Must be able to work effectively as part of a team.
• Must be a Chartered Building Surveyor and a member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (2-3 years PQE in commercial building surveying).

Additional Information

At Colliers, we are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. In line with the Equality Act 2010, we will accommodate any suitable candidate requiring assistance to attend or conduct an interview. If you need any adjustments or support, please let us know when either scheduling your interview or in your application cover letter. We are dedicated to ensuring that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed and are here to support you throughout the process.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Consulting

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