Avon and Somerset Police
Principal Building Surveyor

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Job Description
We are looking for a Building Surveyor to provide technical leadership in our Estates and Facilities Management team at Avon and Somerset Police. The role will require you to apply excellent interpersonal skills and technical expertise to enable the effective and efficient control of a large, diverse property portfolio, overseeing major building projects and refurbishment schemes from inception to delivery.
We have set ourselves ambitious targets to upgrade, modernise and optimise our buildings and you will be pivotal in delivering those ambitions alongside our sustainability objectives from a built infrastructure perspective.
We value and invest in our people and believe in a good work-life balance. At Avon and Somerset Police you are rewarded with some great benefits including our flexible working scheme, designed to offer a degree of flexibility on start and finish times and the option of working from home for a proportion of the working week.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee an estate portfolio of varying types of police sites such as stations, custody suites, training centres and specialist facilities such as our mounted and dog units, ensuring structure, fabric and infrastructure is maintained, enhanced and compliant.
- Working in a multidisciplinary team to deliver complex, multi-stakeholder projects which make our buildings great places to work.
- Provide building surveying and wider technical estates management expertise and leadership, drawing from industry best-practice.
- Support operational colleagues in the delivery of an effective and efficient police service as well as partner organisations who share our building, through the delivery of first class facilities management.
- Taking leadership of large projects alongside our project management team to ensure high quality projects are completed on time and to budget.
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Skills And Qualifications
- Chartered member of RICS, CIOB or equivalent and extensive post qualification experience.
- Expert understanding of the principles of estates/property management, budget management and highly skilled in planning and managing large construction projects.
- Solution focused in relation to design and property constraining factors and project and business issues.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to liaise effectively with key stakeholders at all levels.
- Work well under pressure, demonstrating the ability and want to go the ‘extra mile’.
- Experienced user of bespoke industry systems such as BCIS and CAD.
- You will need to hold a current driving licence or be able to travel around the force area by alternative means.


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This role offers not only a breadth of variety due to the nature of our estate but a chance to use your skills and expertise in a unique environment and contribute to how we police and serve our communities.
We’re happy to accept applications from candidates with a passion for the role, looking to take the next step up in their career.
The basic salary for this role is £xx with an additional market supplement payment of £3000 (subject to annual review).
If you are looking for a new opportunity and something different to anything you’ve done before, then consider Avon and Somerset Police. We are one of the largest forces in the UK, policing multi-cultural communities in a beautiful part of the country “the gateway to the west” providing the opportunity for a fantastic quality of life.
“Working for Avon and Somerset Police has given me the chance to be part of some really rewarding work, with a huge variety of people from frontline police officers to Chief Officers. This role gives me the opportunity to work from home most of the time but it’s always a pleasure to visit our buildings and work closely with colleagues. I have a perfect work-life balance and I get to spend more time with my family and friends”
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