Senior Building Surveyor

Currie & Brown; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Private healthcare

Flexible working

25 days' holiday

£400 a year towards gym membership

Job summary

Currie & Brown is seeking a Senior Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Surveyor to join their Milton Keynes office. The role includes managing projects using drone technology across various sectors while ensuring high-quality service delivery.

Qualifications include a BSc in building surveying and potentially MRICS membership. The position offers a competitive benefits package such as pension, private healthcare, and flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• 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).
• Experience in higher education, local government, and healthcare sectors beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Deliver projects from inception to completion.
• Ensure effective communication for project completion.
• Deliver all work outputs accurately and timely.
• Represent the company professionally to build client relationships.

Skills

Technical writing

Communication skills

Project management

Client relations

AutoCAD

Education

BSc in building surveying or equivalent

MRICS membership

Tools

AutoCAD

NBS

Job description

As part of our wider LSE Building Surveying team, you’ll join our friendly Milton Keynes office, working in a supportive and collaborative environment. You’ll have the autonomy to manage your own projects and clear opportunities for career development.

This can also be a blended role combining the expertise of a Senior Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Surveyor and a building surveyor, applying drone technology innovatively across the built environment. You’ll operate drones across sectors such as property, land, rail, and renewables, using your surveying knowledge to interpret and apply the data captured.

You’ll be part of a team delivering a full range of professional and project-related building surveying services across both private and public sectors from design, specification, and contract administration to building surveys, dilapidations, and clerk of works duties. Working alongside project leaders, you’ll help ensure high-quality service delivery, knowledge sharing, and successful client outcomes, while contributing to our culture of innovation and excellence.

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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

Qualifications and Benefits

• 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
• Outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful and flexible when speaking to colleagues and client alike
• Competitive package of employee benefits including pension, private healthcare, flexible working, 25 days’ holiday with the option to buy additional days, £400 a year towards gym/healthy living membership and much more.