Carriera Limited
Senior Building Surveyor
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Senior Building Surveyor (Client-Side)
Location: Reading or Birmingham, with UK-wide travel
Salary: £70,000 - 80,000 dependent on experience + bonus and benefits
Type: Permanent, full-time
We are working with a growing real estate investment and asset management business that is looking to appoint a Senior Building Surveyor to join their technical team. This is a client-side role, working closely with the Asset Management and Investment teams across a varied UK property portfolio. The role is particularly suited to someone who enjoys being hands-on and taking projects from initial scope through to completion, rather than being purely consultancy-based.
The Role
The main focus will be on delivering refurbishment and capital works across the portfolio, particularly bringing vacant units back to market quickly and efficiently.
You will be responsible for:
- Managing refurbishment and void works from initial scope through to completion.
- Preparing specifications, budgets, and programmes for refurbishment projects.
- Managing contractors on site and dealing with day-to-day technical issues.
- Carrying out practical completion inspections and managing defects and snagging.
- Acting as the client-side lead on larger capital projects including roofs, façades, M&E, building fabric, and common areas.
- Preparing cost plans and monitoring project spend against agreed budgets.
- Procuring and managing contractors and external consultants, including tender processes and JCT contracts.
- Identifying and prioritising future capital expenditure requirements across the portfolio.
- Providing technical input into acquisition and disposal due diligence, reviewing building condition, and identifying potential capital expenditure.
- Supporting building management, planned maintenance, and statutory compliance requirements.
- Providing technical advice around EPC/MEES, retrofit, and wider sustainability requirements.
- Providing support on dilapidations, licences to alter, and other technical lease matters.
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You will work closely with the wider Asset Management, Investment, and Property teams, as well as contractors, consultants, agents, and occupiers.
What They're Looking For
Ideally, you'll be an MRICS Building Surveyor with around 5+ years' post-qualification experience, although relevant experience will be considered.
They're particularly interested in someone who has:
- Strong experience delivering refurbishment and capital projects.
- A background across commercial, industrial, or mixed-use property.
- Hands-on experience managing contractors and projects on site.
- Experience with technical due diligence relating to acquisitions and disposals.
- Exposure to dilapidations, compliance, and general building management.
- Good knowledge of building regulations, fire safety, and EPC/MEES requirements.
- A commercially minded approach and an understanding of how technical decisions impact leasing and asset value.
- The ability to manage multiple projects and contractors across a live portfolio.
- A full UK driving licence and willingness to travel nationally.
Experience of sustainability/decarbonisation projects, JCT contracts, Employer's Agent duties, or working within an institutional / investment-backed environment would be advantageous.
Why Consider It?
This is a good opportunity for someone looking to move into a genuine client-side position where you can have ownership of projects and see the direct impact of your work on the portfolio. You'll have exposure across refurbishment, capital projects, acquisitions, asset management, and technical strategy, rather than being restricted to one particular area of surveying. The business is also continuing to grow, so there is scope for the successful individual to develop with the platform and take on increasing responsibility.
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Package
- Salary up to £80,000
- Discretionary bonus
- Car allowance / travel expenses
- Pension
- Private healthcare
- RICS membership and CPD support
- Strong exposure to a varied UK property portfolio
- Genuine progression opportunities
Apply:
Please contact Lewis West on 020 3817 4001 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. All applications will be held in strict confidence and in accordance with our privacy policy.
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