Senior Building Surveyor

CURRIE & BROWN UK LIMITED; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Currie & Brown is seeking a Senior Building Surveyor to join our Southampton team, handling a broad portfolio across Hampshire, Wiltshire and Dorset. You will deliver survey and project-related services, manage client teams, and ensure high-quality outcomes with opportunities for career development.

You will work from our Southampton office in a collaborative environment, mentoring junior staff and supporting knowledge sharing while driving innovation and excellent client service.

Qualifications

• BSc in building surveying or equivalent.
• MRICS or equivalent professional status.
• Strong technical writing and communication skills.
• AutoCAD or Revit and NBS software proficiency beneficial.
• Experience in higher education, local government and healthcare sectors beneficial.
• Party Wall and Commercial dilapidations experience beneficial.
• Experience with private and public sector clients.
• Skills in surveys, project management, clerk of works, repairs and maintenance.
• Knowledge of contract suites (JCT/NEC).

Responsibilities

• Delivering projects, commissions, and professional assignments from inception to completion across a broad range of traditional building surveying duties.
• Maintaining effective communication to ensure information is available for successful completion of projects and liaising with other managers for financial control.
• Assist with managing client/project teams to deliver services profitably and on time.
• Visit sites to undertake surveys, construction site visits, meetings with sub-contractors, contractors and clients.
• Deliver all work outputs accurately and on time.
• Representing the company professionally, negotiating with clients to build long-lasting relationships.
• Support, mentor junior team members at a professional level.

Skills

BSc in Building Surveying

MRICS

AutoCAD

Revit

NBS software

Technical writing

Communication

Project management

Clerk of works

Surveys

JCT/NEC

Education

BSc in building surveying or equivalent

Tools

AutoCAD

Revit

NBS software

Job description

About The Role

Currie & Brown is seeking a talented Senior Building Surveyor to join our growing Southampton team. This is an exciting opportunity to work across a diverse and expanding portfolio of projects and clients throughout Hampshire, Wiltshire and Dorset, delivering services ranging from condition surveys and dilapidations, NEC Supervisor/Clerk of Works, through to employer's agent and project management instructions. As part of our wider London & South-East Building Surveying team, you'll be based in our friendly Southampton office, working in a supportive and collaborative environment with the autonomy to manage your own projects and clear opportunities for career development, working alongside our graduate and senior building surveying leadership team.

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. This includes design, specification, and contract administration, alongside traditional building surveys, dilapidations, and clerk of works duties.

Working closely with project leaders and colleagues, you'll help ensure high-quality service delivery, support knowledge sharing, and contribute to successful client outcomes while helping drive our culture of innovation and excellence and helping shape our direction on offering a full range of building surveying services in our region.

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

• Delivering projects, commissions, and professional assignments from inception to completion across a broad range of traditional building surveying duties.
• 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, visit construction sites, meet with sub-contractors, contractors, clients and other staff as required to deliver projects and undertake site supervisory services.
• 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.
• Support, mentor junior members of team at a relevant professional level.

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) or equivalent professional status.
• Good technical writing and communication skills.
• Competent skills in the use of AutoCAD or Revit and NBS software beneficial.
• Experience in the higher education, local government and healthcare sectors beneficial.
• Preferred experience in professional building surveying services related to Party Wall and Commercial dilapidations 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.
• Broad understanding and knowledge and application of contract suite e.g. JCT/NEC .

About Us

Unlike some businesses, we prioritise for the long term and honour our commitments. We are compassionate and inclusive in the way we approach our work, and always look to invest in our people's futures. Be it a desire to work internationally, a drive to progress, or even a curiosity to operate in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage - providing advice, support and the structure to achieve. That is why so many of us have established and built successful careers here for so long.

Why choose Currie & Brown?

We don't offer just a job we offer a career with clear structured route to progression, and a track record of making international mobility happen with international moves encouraged on a permanent or secondment basis.

We are an international industry leader - Working for us provides the chance to work for a leading brand with a focus on excellence, being digitally-led in our approach, we present the chance to work on some of the world's most prestigious projects and for some of the world's top clients.

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day and that is why we firmly believe equality, diversity and inclusion should be taken seriously. Diverse people, backgrounds and experiences develop the most innovative of ideas, they are essential to our success, that is why we actively encourage applications from all backgrounds.

We are a truly independent business where our people are empowered to make quick, agile decisions that drive real impact. As part of Sidara, we collaborate directly with some of the world's brightest partner brands in our industry, offering exciting opportunities to innovate and grow.

We offer comprehensive benefits packages in all our global regions which have been specifically tailored to offer additional rewards to our employees from entry level to senior executives.