Senior Building Surveyor - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - AECOM

AECOM

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Company Description

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world.
We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone.

Whether it's improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy.

We're one global team - 47,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.

Job Description:

AECOM is seeking to hire a Senior Chartered Building Surveyor with technical due diligence and/or dilapidations specialist interest into our national Building Surveying Professional Services team.

Location is flexible but you will need to be able to travel extensively around the UK (and occasionally further afield) to carry out your job duties.

The individual would be keen to embrace the opportunity to specialise in providing technical due diligence (TDD) and/or dilapidations services.

This role will suit someone with a strong technical background who has carried out numerous technical due diligence and/or dilapidations instructions, and who would like to now specialise in these services whilst supporting work winning and client management initiatives.

As a Senior Chartered Building Surveyor, you will be an important part of the team's leadership structure, working alongside others to help grow and develop our people and our business.

Job Duties:
This is an opportunity to join a unique team that is on a fantastic journey.

We survey all kinds of commercial building from hotels to warehouses, offices to student accommodation, and we work with some of the world's biggest names.

This job requires that you:

Lead and manage others on individual TDD and/or dilapidations commissions, including carrying out surveys and report writing.
Take ownership of your surveys/projects, including:
support preparation of fee proposals and bids and liaising with clients

- organising and successfully delivering programmes of surveys/project works (including considering and planning the necessary internal and external resources)
- tracking and managing the finances of your surveys/projects
- tracking and managing your team's performance on your surveys/projects
- coordinating timely and accurate invoicing Work with the team to develop business with existing clients as well as new work

Work with the team and others across building surveying to deliver continuous improvement to our standards, processes and knowledge and to develop our more junior team members
Are familiar with a wide range of construction types and understand the common issues and defects associated with these

Qualifications:

Experience in all core building surveying work areas especially TDD and/or dilapidations
A good working knowledge of the relevant RICS guidance notes, particularly those relating to TDD and/or dilapidations
Experience of working in and project managing multidisciplinary teams
Strong client relationship management skills and be comfortable participating in business development activity
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Experience of managing and coordinating all phases of multiple surveying projects at once
Experience of writing fee proposals
Ability to project manage own projects and oversee those of junior staff
Awareness of new technologies and legislation, as appropriate
Experience of all aspects of financial management of instructions, including invoicing clients for own projects
Ability to performs a variety of senior level tasks with mínimal supervision

Preferred Qualifications:

Hold a relevant degree, such as an RICS accredited Bachelor's degree in building surveying and be a Full Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) (other professional qualifications will be considered if you are able to demonstrate relevance)
Experience of practising and delivering building surveying services to clients in a commercial building consultancy
You must be able to communicate clearly and concisely, verbally and in writing
You will have excellent Microsoft Office skills and be highly proficient in the use of Word and Excel in particular

Additional Information

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options.

Whether you're working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion - a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outco