Associate Building Surveyor

Associate Building Surveyor

A new career opportunity has arisen for an experienced Building Surveyor to join our Leeds Building Consultancy team as an Associate. We are seeking an ambitious surveyor to provide a full building surveying service to new and existing clients, across commercial and residential properties. The individual will be part of a growing team, supervising junior members and will work on a variety of projects allowing them to develop their building surveying further.

Our Leeds office is a great central location, close to local amenities and transport links. In addition, we offer a competitive salary with excellent benefits such as 25 days’ annual leave, pension matched contribution, life assurance and flexible benefits including the ability to purchase further annual leave, health cash plans, cycle to work scheme and many more. We also welcome applications from those seeking support with flexible working and are open to an element of ‘hybrid’ working.

Division: Commercial
Function: Building Surveying
 

MAIN TASKS:

Main duties of the role will include:

• Carry out Building Surveys of all types of commercial buildings and residential properties.
• Preparation of Schedules of Dilapidations and subsequent negotiations with opposing clients and professional representatives.
• Project management, Contract Administration and design for refurbishment, conversion and new build projects for commercial, rural and residential premises.
• Prepare and issue feasibility studies working with other disciplines as necessary.
• Preparation of Schedules of Condition and subsequent negotiations with opposing client’s professional representatives.
• Prepare and advise clients on Preventative Planned Maintenance and strategies for implementing the same.
• Investigating and advising client on specific building problems / defects.
• Development Monitoring on behalf of a Landlord, Tenant or for bank lending purposes.
• Reinstatement Cost Assessment advice for a broad range of property types in locations across the UK.
• Undertake Principal Designer role for small projects where necessary to comply with CDM 2015 for in-house and external clients. Providing professional advice to clients and others as required.
• Provide Party Wall etc Act 1996 service to Building and Adjoining owners.

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE SUCCESSFUL?

You will be an experienced Building Surveyor ideally, chartered with RICS and from a consultancy background. You will have a strong understanding and knowledge of building surveys, with the ability to manage a range of projects across both commercial and residential properties. You be an excellent communicator with demonstrable experience of developing new and existing client relationships. It will be key that you are able to support junior members of the team and provide advice across other Carter Jonas teams. It is also essential that you have a full driving license as travel to sites is required.

OUR FIRM’S VALUES:

• Approachable – we treat every relationship with respect, integrity, and warmth.
• Effective – we do what we say we will, we do it well and we’re accountable.
• Ambitious – we are ambitious for our clients and for our firm.