Associate Building Surveyor – Renowned Multidisciplinary Consultancy

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Associate Building Surveyor – Multidisciplinary Global Consultancy

Are you an Associate Building Surveyor looking for a new challenge?
Or are you a Senior Building Surveyor looking for your next step up?

Your new company
My client is looking for an Associate Chartered Building Surveyor to join their London office to work in a multidisciplinary environment to deliver a full suite of Building Surveying duties. They 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 has a strong ambition to progress and enjoys working collaboratively within a vibrant team and has experience in managing client relationships and dealing with legal and technical issues.
As well as technical competence, we are looking for someone with the ability to manage a team and think laterally, who possesses exemplary communication skills and has strong commercial awareness experience and who will provide a first-class service to our clients.
This position would be an excellent opportunity for an Associate Level Chartered Building Surveyor with post qualification experience, to develop their career within a forward-thinking organisation.
Your new role

Working across a number of projects in different sectors, managing and providing a range of building surveying / project management duties.Assisting with the development of new and repeat business across all sectors where possible.Managing the client relationship and service delivery on a project by project basis.Supporting the senior managers in the day-to-day running of the business, you’ll also be involved with the following:

• Project management and Contract Administration duties for larger projects.
• Condition and measured surveys.
• Designing and implementing small – medium sized projects.
• Due diligence surveys.

The use and application of standard forms of building contracts, such as JCT and NEC.Keeping abreast of industry issues and developments in best practice.Experience in development of Bids and Bid management.Acting as the primary interface with key clients and ensure the quality and timeliness of service delivery to those clients.Experience in sectors that includes: education, local authorities, health care, central government and infrastructure projects.Defect analysis, undertaking building surveys and producing professional reports and specifications.Mentoring and training the junior Building Surveyors, as well as an active participation in the APC programme.Understand the principles of quality, safety and the environment within the management of projects.Delivery of both pre- and post- contract project management services.Framework Management:

• Be able to manage teams and deliver commissions under framework agreements.
• Responsible for generating revenue from their framework to meet targets and maintain the day-to-day relationship with the client senior management.
• Support PM’s in the delivery of projects to ensure the clients requirements are delivered and fees are managed to achieve required operating profit.
• Prepare competitive and timely fee proposals in line with governance, and ensure invoicing is carried out promptly and debt collected in a timely manner.
• Liaise with the client to understand the issues before formulising scope and fees.
• Maintain a detailed orderbook and pipeline and share their resourcing requirements with resource managers.
• Work from the client’s office to build rapport and trust with the client and understand their challenges and help build a pipeline of potential work to deliver.

What you’ll need to succeed
BSc (Hon’s) Building Surveying RICS Accredited degree.Full member of The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.Ability to demonstrate good all-round surveying experience and be client facing with work winning skills.Experience of both pre and post contract project management responsibilities, and be able to deliver this service effectively to Clients.Good team working skills and ability to communicate well at all levels.Prepared to travel as required.To liaise with senior colleagues to help build a profitable service and positive, high performing team environment.Strong IT skills, Word and Excel as a minimum. Candidates should be able to produce, edit and format documents.An awareness of BIM systems.Ability to manage and develop team members including mentoring of APC graduates.Experience of managing clients and their expectations.Full understanding of Health and Safety requirements.What you’ll get in return
1. Pension – the Company will double the contribution that you pay.
Life Assurance – Provided at 4 x annual earnings up to state pension age (variable dependent on date of birth). Staff can pay to increase their cover-up to a maximum of 10x salary or sell to decrease their cover to a minimum level of 2x salary.Holidays – 25 days per annum. 8 days paid bank holidays per annum. Staff can buy up to 15 days or sell up to 5 days holiday to suit their lifestyle.Income Protection – Offers you peace of mind in the form of an income in the unlikely event you are prevented from working for more than 26 weeks as a result of serious ill health or injury.Professional Fees– Annual subscription reimbursed for membership of a professional body relevant to your role.Season Ticket Loan – All UK employees are eligible on successful completion of their probationary period.What you need to do now
If you’re interested in this role, click ‘apply now’ to forward a copy of your CV, or email Sadie Smith directly at
If this job isn’t quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position as a Building Surveyor, Quantity Surveyor, or Project Manager, please contact Sadie Smith for a confidential discussion on your career.
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