Senior Building Surveyor

AtkinsRéalis UK Limited; West of England; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Hybrid working

Training & PD

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis UK Limited is seeking a Senior Building Surveyor to join the Bristol team, delivering a full suite of building surveying services across refurbishment, improvement and modernisation projects.

You will work across multiple sectors, oversee feasibility studies, write specifications, manage budgets, and apply JCT/NEC contracts while mentoring junior surveyors and supporting APC candidates.

Qualifications

• Qualified Building Surveyor with relevance to client management and commercial awareness
• Experience mentoring and coaching surveyors and APC candidates
• Strong knowledge of building surveying services and project delivery

Responsibilities

• Undertake feasibility studies, prepare specifications, obtain estimates and administer refurbishment contracts.
• Apply standard forms of building contract (JCT/NEC) across projects.
• Mentor and train Building Surveyors and support APC candidates.
• Manage workloads and project profitability while maintaining client relationships.
• Develop new business opportunities and participate in bid submissions.

Skills

Client relationship management

Mentoring juniors

Team leadership

Project coordination

Financial awareness

Education

BSc (Hons) Building Surveying

Chartered status (RICS)

Tools

AutoCAD

NBS

Revit

Job description

Job Description Overview

AtkinsRéalis have a vacancy for a Senior Building Surveyor to work in a multi-disciplinary environment to deliver a full suite of Building Surveying duties. The role is based within our growing Bristol building surveying team, where you’ll also be working alongside our multidisciplinary design and consultancy team in our Buildings and Places Business. We can offer extremely varied and interesting work with a number of high-profile public and private sector clients. This role has excellent prospects for an individual who enjoys working collaboratively within a vibrant team, and who has experience in managing client relationships and enjoys variety across all areas of Building Surveying, and who will provide a first-class service to our clients. As well as technical competence, we are looking for a Building Surveyor who has strong commercial awareness and who can inspire clients and mentor junior colleagues with their client relationship and communication skills. This position would be an excellent opportunity for a Chartered Building Surveyor with post qualification experience, to develop their career within a forward-thinking organisation.

Your role

Working across several projects in different sectors, providing a range of refurbishment, improvement and modernisation projects.

• Undertaking feasibility studies, producing specifications, obtaining estimates, obtaining statutory approvals and administering contracts for refurbishment projects.
• Using and applying standard forms of building contract, such as JCT and NEC.
• Knowledge and application of building surveying professional services.
• Qualified NEC supervisor or willingness to undertake the qualification at AtkinsRéalis.
• Mentoring and training Building Surveyors and providing Supervisor support to Junior. Surveyors on the RICS APC programme.
• Understanding the principles of quality, safety and the environment in asset surveys, design and management of projects and portfolios.
• Supporting the senior managers in their day-to-day activities.
• Line managing of junior Building Surveying staff.
• Carrying out surveys, inspections, schedules, provide professional services and managing regional schemes.
• Development of new business opportunities including preparation and submission of bids.

Specific Technical Skillsets to meet specialist Professional Building Surveying service requirements EG Dilapidations, Party Wall, Fire Risk, Access Assessments

• Dilapidations
• Party Wall
• Fire Risk
• Access Assessments

About you

• A BSc. (Hons) in Building Surveying or a similar RICS accredited degree.
• Chartered status essential/highly desirable.
• Sound technical surveying knowledge and significant building surveying experience.
• Experience managing clients with a strong understanding of profitability, business development and sound commercial awareness.
• Experience in mentoring, training and coaching team members.
• Experience managing workloads and projects.
• Sound knowledge drafting technical documents, including clients’ requirements, asset reviews, feasibility studies, specifications and drawings.
• Full understanding of Health and Safety requirements and Statutory Compliance.
• Specific Technical Skillsets to meet specialist Professional Building Surveying service requirements EG Dilapidations, Party Wall, Fire Risk, Access Assessments.
• Excellent time management, punctuality and commitment to getting the job done.
• Prepared to travel as required.
• Strong IT skills, Word and Excel as a minimum.
• Candidates should be able to produce, edit and format documents.
• Ability in the use of AutoCAD and NBS, and experience Revit would be an advantage.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

Rewards and benefits – Careers at AtkinsRéalis

Rewards and benefits – Careers at AtkinsRéalis

About AtkinsRéalis

We’re AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We’re committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people. Find out more.

Created by the integration of long-standing organizations dating back to 1911, AtkinsRéalis is a world-class engineering services and nuclear company dedicated to engineering a better future for our planet and its people. We create sustainable solutions that connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. We deploy global capabilities locally to our clients and deliver unique end-to-end services across the whole life cycle of an asset including consulting, advisory & environmental services, intelligent networks & cybersecurity, design & engineering, procurement, project & construction management, operations & maintenance, decommissioning and capital. The breadth and depth of our capabilities are delivered to clients in strategic sectors such as Engineering Services, Nuclear and Capital.

News and information are available at Atkinsrealis or follow us on LinkedIn.

Additional information Security clearance

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance. We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to all applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria. If you would like to be considered under this commitment, please let us know at the application stage.

#LI-UK#LI-ATKINS #PPSProContr Worker Type Employee Job Type Regular At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.