Surveying Manager

Churchill Estates Management; Southampton; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cash for car or company car

Day off on your birthday

Individual + partner private medical

Health Screening

Life Assurance

Job summary

Churchill Estates Management is seeking an experienced Surveying Manager to join its Property Services team. The role is field-based with travel across regions and will require leadership of Building Surveyors and Assistant Surveyors to deliver major works and ongoing asset maintenance.

You will oversee surveying, scoping, procurement, and delivery of projects, ensuring quality, value for money, and minimal disruption to residents, with a focus on asset performance and compliance.

Qualifications

• Experience in surveying buildings and major works planning.
• Proven leadership of surveyors and delivery teams.
• Ability to procure scopes, review tenders and manage contractor performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Building Surveyors and Assistant Surveyors including coaching and performance management.
• Survey developments, identify defects and scope major works.
• Procure works, review tenders, adjudicate and oversee delivery to completion.
• Provide technical oversight across planned, reactive and major works.

Skills

Leadership

Surveying

Contractor management

Job description

• Location: Field based, with frequent travel across the different regions. Ideal candidate to be situated around the Bournemouth and Southampton areas.
• Hours: 37 per week, Monday to Friday
• Package: Competitive salary, Company car or cash for car allowance, plus excellent Colleague benefits

Churchill Estates Management (CEM) is a leading property management company specialising in independent retirement living. We pride ourselves on delivering exceptional service and maintaining the highest standards across our developments. Due to growth we are now seeking an experienced Project Delivery Manager to join our Property Services team and play a key role in ensuring our portfolio remains safe, compliant, and well-maintained.

About the role

The Surveying Manager plays a key role within our Property Services team, combining operational surveying and major works delivery with team leadership and contractor performance management.

Working alongside another Surveying Manager, you will lead a team of Building Surveyors and Assistant Surveyors responsible for surveying our developments, identifying and scoping major works, procuring and adjudicating tenders, overseeing works through delivery and inspecting and signing off completed projects.

Alongside your management responsibilities, you will remain actively involved in operational delivery, providing technical oversight and support across planned, reactive and major works.

You will ensure projects are properly surveyed, scoped, procured, managed and completed, with a strong focus on quality, value for money, customer impact and long-term asset performance. You will also act as a key escalation point for more complex technical, contractor and project matters, and play a key role in managing the performance of CEM’s framework contractors, helping to drive consistent standards, quality, value and service across the portfolio.

This is a field-based role with frequent travel to CEM developments, together with attendance at our Ringwood Head Office and overnight stays where required.

The main responsibilities of the Surveying Manager are:

Team Leadership and Management

• Line manage Building Surveyors and Assistant Surveyors, providing leadership, coaching, technical guidance and support.
• Manage workloads, priorities and performance across the team.
• Review the quality and consistency of surveys, scopes, tender documentation and project delivery.
• Develop a strong culture of accountability, collaboration and customer focus.

Surveying and Major Works

• Carry out and oversee Asset Surveys, inspections and condition assessments.
• Identify defects, maintenance requirements and future major works.
• Prepare and review clear scopes and specifications.
• Procure works, review tenders and undertake adjudications.
• Oversee contractors and projects from pre-start through to completion, monitoring performance against agreed requirements and standards.
• Inspect and sign off completed works against the agreed scope and specification.
• Act as an escalation point for complex technical and project issues.
• Monitor and manage the performance of framework contractors, addressing performance issues and driving improvements in quality, service, cost and delivery.

Asset Management and Governance

• Ensure surveying and asset information supports maintenance planning, budgeting and lifecycle investment.
• Provide technical advice across Property Services and the wider business.
• Maintain appropriate project, contract and financial controls.
• Ensure works are delivered in line with relevant legislation, consultation requirements and CEM procedures.
• Identify and escalates project, financial and technical risks.

Stakeholders and Customers

• Build strong relationships with colleagues, contractors and other stakeholders.
• Communicate technical matters, project proposals and risks clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ensure works are planned and delivered with appropriate consideration for customers living within our developments.

About you

You'll be an experienced building surveying or site manager who is comfortable combining hands-on technical delivery with the leadership and development of others.

You'll have experience of surveying buildings, diagnosing defects and developing scopes and specifications for repair, maintenance or major works. You'll also understand how projects progress through procurement and tendering, delivery, inspection and final sign-off.

You’ll be confident managing contractors, projects and competing priorities across a geographically dispersed portfolio, while providing direction and support to Building Surveyors and Assistant Surveyors.

Your rewards

• Cash for car or company car
• Day off on your birthday
• Individual + partner private medical cover
• Health Screening
• Life Assurance

About us

Churchill Estates Management is a wholly owned subsidiary of Churchill Retirement Plc. The business has grown year on year since launching in 2006 and we now manage more than 250 retirement developments, 9,000 apartments, supporting over 11,000 retired people nationally.

Our Head Office, based in Ringwood, provides vital centralised services in support of our retirement developments who in turn are supported by a team of experienced Regional and Area Managers, right across the UK.

Our service is about so much more than simply buildings and facilities management, we provide an enhanced lifestyle for our homeowners in their retirement. You will find all Colleagues of CEM extremely passionate about this, and we go above and beyond to ensure our customers enjoy their retirement, and their loved ones have peace of mind.

We are an ambitious and innovative company who have a clear growth strategy for the years ahead. Our Vision is to be the best property management company in the UK.

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