Carriera Limited
Senior Building Surveyor
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Senior Building Surveyor
Reading, Client-Side, National Industrial & Office Portfolio, Sal: £75,000.
Are you looking to move away from consultancy and join a property business where you can see the direct impact of your work?
This is an excellent opportunity for an MRICS Building Surveyor with 3+ years’ post-qualification experience to join a well-established property investment business with a £1 billion national portfolio of industrial and office assets.
Working within a small, highly experienced building surveying team, you will play a key role in protecting, enhancing and developing a high-value property portfolio. You will work closely with the asset management and investment teams, gaining genuine exposure to acquisitions, disposals, asset enhancement and long-term investment strategy.
This is more than a traditional building surveying position. The role provides the opportunity to develop your commercial understanding of property ownership and gain first-hand exposure to the decisions that drive investment performance.
The Opportunity
Reporting to the Asset Management Director and Technical Director, you will support the ongoing management and improvement of a diverse UK-wide portfolio.
You will work closely with asset managers, investment professionals and external consultants to maximise the performance and value of the portfolio.
Projects typically range from £250,000 to £1 million, covering refurbishment, asset enhancement and capital improvement works across industrial and commercial properties.
A significant element of the role will also involve technical due diligence, supporting acquisitions and disposals and providing technical insight into investment decisions.
Contentious matters, including dilapidations and disputes, are outsourced to specialist advisors. You will therefore manage these matters from a client-side perspective, allowing you to focus on the wider commercial objectives of the business.
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Key Responsibilities
- Undertaking building inspections and condition surveys across the portfolio.
- Preparing specifications and managing refurbishment, maintenance and capital improvement projects ranging from £250k–£1m.
- Delivering technical due diligence for acquisitions and disposals.
- Providing technical advice to support investment and asset management decisions.
- Managing planned preventative maintenance programmes.
- Advising on building defects and recommending appropriate remedial solutions.
- Managing external consultants, contractors and specialist surveyors.
- Overseeing outsourced contentious matters, including dilapidations and disputes, from a client-side perspective.
- Monitoring project costs, programmes and quality.
- Working closely with the asset management team to maximise asset value and performance.
About You
The successful candidate will ideally have:
- MRICS qualification.
- 3+ years’ post-qualified experience in building surveying.
- Strong technical knowledge across commercial property.
- Experience delivering both professional and project-based building surveying services.
- Experience or knowledge of technical due diligence.
- A commercially minded approach and an interest in asset management and property investment.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- A full UK driving licence.
What's on Offer?
- Salary Up to £75,000 + Car Allowance £6-8k + Bonus, Pension & More.
- Responsibility across a national portfolio of industrial and commercial assets.
- Exposure to projects typically valued between £250k–£1m.
- Significant involvement in technical due diligence, acquisitions and investment strategy.
- Opportunity to work closely with an experienced asset management and investment team.
- The opportunity to develop a broader commercial understanding of property ownership and investment.
- Small, collaborative building surveying team with genuine visibility and influence.
- Excellent compensation and comprehensive benefits package.
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If you're a Building Surveyor looking to broaden your experience beyond traditional consultancy, or you're looking to move into a more commercially focused property environment, this could be an excellent next step. The role offers genuine exposure to how a dynamic property business acquires, manages, enhances and grows its portfolio, rather than simply providing technical advice from the sidelines.
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Please contact Lewis West on 0203 817 4000 for further information or send a copy of your CV to lwest@carriera.co.uk.
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Carriera Limited values diversity and promotes equality, and no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010. We welcome applications from all sections of society and are open to discussing any reasonable adjustments or additional arrangements you may require to support your application.
All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. When advertising permanent vacancies, we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary vacancies, we are acting as an Employment Business for the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003.
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