Workman LLP
Senior Building Surveyor
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About The Role
You will be a member of an experienced Building Consultancy team that will carry out a wide range of roles including contract and project work to professional services including TDD, dilapidations, and fire safety.
The role will require regular and direct communication with institutional fund management clients, landlords, consultants, and tenants.
The team combines technical expertise with commercial awareness which meet specific client requirements from a nationwide network of offices.
What Matters Most In This Role
- Building and maintaining close professional relationships with clients, tenants, and colleagues is paramount to your success. Proactiveness and using your initiative will be encouraged.
- You will manage multiple building surveying instructions simultaneously for a range of key clients. You will need to demonstrate your ability to work within set timelines and provide regular client updates along the journey.
- Understanding the client brief and delivering on their expectations is fundamental to your success.
- Clients will lean on your professional advice and support with schedules of dilapidations, pre-acquisition surveys, due diligence, development monitoring, defect diagnosis, fire safety advice, and schedules of condition reports.
- You can be performing the role of a designer, contract administrator, project manager, or a hybrid of all three.
- Other duties will include:
- Successfully manage the project process from inception to completion.
- Working with landlords and tenants on their ESG initiatives to ensure you are advising and delivering on the most environmental and sustainable methods and materials.
- Working with team members and sharing in assisting in developing less experienced members of the team as well as taking up leadership roles.
- Develop a strategic view on the lifecycle of the property asset and understanding the clear objectives of the client brief.
- Be available and present to assist in opportunities in the business and be keen to progress your career.
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What We Expect From You
- A proactive, practical, and positive approach to work is required.
- Excellent and professional communication skills with the ability to build a good reputation amongst clients is also paramount.
- You will be an MRICS chartered surveyor.
- Commercial Property Experience In a Similar Consultancy Is Preferred.
Why Workman?
- Hybrid working to offer you a great work-life balance, with a minimum of three days in the office.
- Core working hours allow for added flexibility and helps benefit your work-life balance.
- Discretionary annual bonus and salary reviews.
- Healthcare, life insurance & wellness programme.
- Long service additional holidays, your birthday off, and an extra day between Christmas and New Year.
- Lifestyle benefits to suit you: gym membership, cycle to work, buy and sell holiday to name just a few.
- Social events throughout the year including a firm-wide Christmas party!
- Generous referral bonus.
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About Workman LLP
As the UK's leading independent commercial property management specialist, Workman has an enviable position within the property industry.
We are proud of our longstanding relationships with many of our clients, some of whom we have worked with for more than 25 years. Our clients include leading institutional and sector-specialist investors, private property companies, public sector bodies, and a growing number of overseas investors.
We pride ourselves on the calibre of our employees and their unique skill sets.
For more information on working for Workman, please visit Our People | Workman LLP.
Equal Opportunities
We are an equal opportunities employer, and it is our policy to recruit a diverse workforce and follow the guidelines of the Equality Act 2010.
This job description does not form part of your contract of employment, and the duties may be amended from time to time.
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