Senior / Associate Building Surveyor
13 days ago
London
Senior Building Surveyor Your new company Join a progressive, multidisciplinary consultancy with decades of experience delivering award-winning property and construction solutions across the UK. With a strong presence nationwide and a collaborative team culture, this is a business that values integrity, technical excellence, and making a genuine social impact. People are at the core of its success-and it shows in everything from career development opportunities to wellbeing support and inclusive workplace values. Your new role As a Senior Building Surveyor, you’ll play a lead role in delivering a broad and varied portfolio of work. Based in Orpington and benefiting from hybrid flexibility, you’ll take responsibility for managing complex projects and developing long-term client relationships, while mentoring junior colleagues and contributing to the team's overall success. Your day-to-day will include: • Leading and managing a range of building surveying instructions, • Delivering contract administration services across both small and large-scale schemes, • Carrying out detailed building surveys on a variety of asset types, • Preparing condition reports, specifications, schedules and technical drawings, • Advising on party wall matters, building defects, and planned maintenance, • Supporting business development through relationship building and spotting new opportunities, • Assessing and managing risk, ensuring health, safety, legal and environmental standards are upheld, • Providing hands-on mentoring and development to less experienced surveyors What you'll need to succeed This is a role for someone technically strong, commercially aware, and confident in leading projects and people. A sound understanding of the full project lifecycle is essential, as is the ability to foster long-term client relationships while seeking out new opportunities to grow your own portfolio. You’ll bring: • A degree in a relevant built environment subject, • MRICS status or close to completion, • 2-4 years of post-qualification experience in building surveying, • Experience in contract admin, party wall matters, dilapidations, residential works, and repair schemes, • A good working knowledge of JCT contracts and property law, including the Party Wall etc. Act, • Familiarity with construction risks, building safety regulations, and fire safety/retrofit practices, • Clear, confident communication-both written and verbal, • A collaborative spirit and the desire to develop others What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career. # 4697066