Assistant Surveyor - Manchester, United Kingdom - CBRE

CBRE

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Manchester, United Kingdom

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Description

Posted- 03-May-2023- Service line- GWS Segment- Role type- Full-time- Areas of Interest- Quantity Surveying- Location(s)- Manchester - England - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Project Management & Building Consultancy / Manchester

Job Title:
Reinstatement Cost Assessments - Assistant Surveyor
**Location: Manchester

Reinstatement Cost Assessments

A bit about us

We are a dynamic team of approximately 36 Reinstatement Cost Assessment Surveyors who specialise only in this niche area of work. Many of the team are from quantity surveying backgrounds, but equally there is a good balance of experience from other backgrounds too. As such the team has expertise in a wide range of construction forms and property sectors. Over the last number of years, we have enjoyed unrivalled growth as a team in terms of turnover and also in terms of our headcount. We have a very high retention rate when it comes to our people and we believe this is because of our strong sense of teamship, the fun and collaborative working environment we have created, the great clients we collaborate with, and the care we take in trying to develop and promote our people.
The work we do
While the team is dedicated to only RCA work, there is significant variety through the different types of clients we work for and the many property sectors and locations that we cover.
Clients
We are retained by hundreds of different clients ranging from small independent property owners to large panEuropean property investors, developer and even multinational corporate occupiers.
Property Sectors
We assess thousands of different properties for these clients every year.

Many of these properties are from the core sectors of:

Offices (everything from landmark city centre office developments to out-of-town business parks)
Retail (high street retail, large shopping centres, retail parks & designer outlets)
Industrial & Logistics (we work for most of the largest I&L investors and developers)
However, we also assess many hundreds of properties that fall within sectors such as, but not limited to:
Healthcare (hospital campuses, clinics and surgeries)
Education (university campuses and schools)
Residential and student residential (from Individual homes for high net worth individuals to high rise residential towers)
Leisure (pubs, restaurants, cinemas, leisure parks, stadia etc.)
Hotels (from budget hotel chains to boutique luxury hotels)
Data Centres (single colocation data centres to large purposebuilt data centre portfolios)
Ports and airports (as well as a range of other infrastructure and transport related sectors)
In addition to this we assess a whole range of agricultural, manufacturing and lifescience related sectors too.
Locations
We assess these properties in locations all around the UK and Europe and indeed further afield in more than 60 countries around the globe. Predominantly the team assesses reinstatement costs for Landlords, however there is an increasing demand for assessments of Category B fitouts from occupiers as well as the more specialist Plant & Equipment and hotel FF&E valuations for clients with global footprints.
Key Responsibilities of the role
Undertake Property inspections site inspections comprise taking site notes, noting construction specification, building services, fixtures and finishes, as well as external works; taking evidential photos; taking full site measurements or check measurements of buildings and external areas, to relate back to floor plans.
Undertaking Measurement we place great importance on measuring accurate Gross internal Areas for every property we assess. This will involve using digital measurement software such as CostX.
Pricing the requirement is to build up an assessment to provide a figure which will be the cost of reinstatement for the entire premises, in their present form, making allowance for any additional work required such as site clearance (including removal of hazardous materials), temporary works to ensure safety of the public and any adjoining buildings, prescribed fees, party walls and professional fees in line with the RICS guide.

Cost Research

To keep our cost knowledge up to date, you will be required to gather and analyse cost data from a number of sources including online cost databases and publications, internal cost publications, costs provided to us by our developer clients and the like.
Travel the properties we assess are located all over the UK, EMEA and sometimes globally, but a great deal of this work is centrally managed out of London, so a big part of the job is being happy to travel to these sites.
Personal specification or requirements
You will need excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to clearly communicate with people of all levels of seniority.
You will need to be diligent and proactive with the ability to prioritise and act on your own initiative.
Excellent