Building Surveyor - Orpington, United Kingdom - calfordseaden

calfordseaden

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Orpington, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We have an opportunity for a Building Surveyor, with relevant degree, to join our multi-disciplinary practice in Orpington. You will lead on Project co-ordination, contract administration and perform general Surveying duties across a range of projects andclients.

Duties

Receiving Client instructions and agreeing fee proposals for various projects and professional surveying instructions
Surveying and reporting on residential, commercial and education properties.
Acting as Lead Consultant for refurbishment and new build projects for public and private clients in different sectors including residential, commercial and education. Includes briefing Clients, design, coordinating consultants, specifying, cost advice,tendering, drafting contractual documents and contract administration.
This is a Client facing role and will include chairing meetings, presentations, resident meetings and the like. There may a requirement to attend out of hours meetings from time to time e.g. resident and leaseholder stakeholder meetings.
Experience of JCT contracts (both Contract Administration and Employer's Agent roles), Party Wall and building pathology / defects diagnosis is preferable
Experience of Residential and Education would be ideal, mixed with commercial also.
Ability to use AutoCAD is preferable.

Person specification

Demonstrate good oral, written communication and personal presentation as the role is client facing and you will be required to give presentations, chair meetings and prepare professionally written reports to a high standard.
You will need to demonstrate your resilience as this position attracts a high volume of work and at times, can be a pressured environment.
Be organised and prioritise own workload to meet tight deadlines.
You will need to manage client expectations skillfully and bring solutions to challenging situations.
Be able to work under own initiative and also as part of a team.
The role will include an element of mentoring junior staff.
You will be required to drive between sites so need to have access to own vehicle and a clean driving licence.

Our Vision:

To be identified as a trusted client advisor; national in reach, local in service and selected for our quality and expertise in the built environment.

Our values, which are:

Collaboration - being one team and supporting each other to achieve the best results and maximise our potential

Being Yourself - being true to ourselves and other and celebrating differences

Social Value - recognizing and embracing the need for our work to have a positive social impact

Excellence - Striving to be up with the best and at the forefront of what we do

Support - providing investment, encouragement and support to bring out the best in our people

Integrity - being honest and doing the right thing

are integral to everything we do and are reflective of our interaction with each other, our clients, our wider stakeholders and how we approach our work and present ourselves.

Our brilliant team consists of individuals who are willing to go the extra mile to deliver the best results and are ultimately why our clients choose to work with us time and time again.

Wellbeing and Inclusion are at the forefront of our people strategy, and we are now happy to offer hybrid working on 95% of our roles and have recently committed to enhanced Family Leave schemes (after a qualifying period).

We also invest heavily in Leadershipand Management Development and Female Leadership Programmes.

We are passionate about encouraging more diversity within the construction industry and are looking at apprenticeship and schools outreach programmes as part of our strategy.

If you are aligned to our values and are a talented and commercially minded Building Surveyor, please apply, or if this job isn't quite right for you but you would like to start or progress a career within construction consultancy, please send us your CVfor one of our future roles.

Training and Development
The Practice is keen to assist individuals in developing work related professional interests. The Practice takes training seriously, providing practical and financial assistance to all personnel.

Calfordseaden is an Equal Opportunities Employer and is committed to and support the principles of equality of opportunity in employment, training and service delivery.

Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006: List of Documents

The Practice is required under this Act to ensure that all Employees have the right to work in the UK and the right to do the work offered.

At interview all potential Employees must provide one of the original documents set out in List A or two of the original documents in the combinations given in List B (Please see Supporting Document 1).

It is not necessary to produce documents from bothlists.

Photocopies of documents provided will be retained on the successful applicant's file.