Rapleys
Senior Surveyor / Associate Surveyor
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Senior Surveyor / Associate Surveyor
Established in 1951, Rapleys is a growing people-focused property & planning consultancy. Rapleys offers comprehensive professional and agency services, on a personal and value-added basis, to clients throughout the UK via our national network of offices.
Our vision is to be the number one partner of choice for property and planning excellence and be consistently ranked as an agent of choice across the UK. Our mission is to bring our expertise, dynamism, and problem-solving tenacity to add value, solve challenges, and build businesses.
We recruit and retain trustworthy, knowledgeable, and passionate professionals, and provide a collaborative culture that enables people to thrive. This is a truly exciting time to join the business as we undertake our new growth and development plans. This role is offered on a hybrid basis, with a mixture of office and home working.
Job Purpose
This is a position for an experienced Chartered Building Surveyor who is looking to take that next step up and leading role, at an exciting time of growth within the Cambridge Building Consultancy team. The associate/senior level role will involve advising clients on a broad range of matters including building surveys, dilapidations, defect analysis, assessments, licence for alteration assessments, schedule of conditions, and contract administration services on a variety of property types in the commercial, industrial, retail, healthcare, automotive, and heritage sectors.
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The role will also include the coordination of portfolio projects for national clients, liaising across our network of UK offices, and an active role with client development with both existing and new clients.
The successful candidate will also be supported with actively participating in networking events, client development, and becoming involved with local groups/professional bodies.
Key Responsibilities Include
- Taking a leading role in the growth of the Building Surveying team, reporting to the head of office, with the aim of being an established and recognised service provider within Cambridge and the East Anglian region.
- Manage, coordinate, and execute a range of professional instructions including dilapidations, technical due diligence acquisition surveys, schedules of condition, PPM’s, and reinstatement cost assessments in achieving fee targets.
- Advising clients about building/property issues, which can include technical, financial, legal, environmental/sustainability, building regulation, and restoration matters.
- Produce defined and accurate instructions to external consultants to undertake detailed planned maintenance surveys, structural surveys, etc., as and when required.
- Providing project services including feasibility studies, cost consultancy, and administering contracts.
- Acting as a mentor in guidance of graduate surveyors through their RICS Assessment of Professional Competence.
- Client liaisons and business development.
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Person Specification
- MRICS Chartered status
- Demonstrate experience of being able to take a leading role as part of a team.
- Good communication and organisational skills
- Highly computer literate
- Full clean driving license
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