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Building Surveyor

Reference

JB456

Sector

Building Control & Surveying

Salary

£50,000 to £65,000 Per Annum

Benefits

Car Allowance & Annual Bonuses

Town/City

London

Contract Type

Permanent

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This role has excellent prospects for a Building Surveyor based in London who has a strong ambition to progress and enjoys working collaboratively within a vibrant team and has experience in managing client relationships and specific interest / experience of project management

As a Senior Project Manager / Building Surveyor you be responsible for delivery of multi-disciplinary projects from concept through to construction, on our expanding portfolio of challenging projects across our Market Sectors.

Responsibilities:

  • The successful delivery of the project to agreed targets, e.g., programme, budget and quality.
  • Identifying and agreeing project objectivities with the Project Director and developing a strategy for achieving these.
  • Identifying, escalating and managing any matters that could pose a potential contractual/commercial risk  to the Project Director (PD) at the earliest opportunity.
  • Utilising commercial manager support to obtain clear understanding of contractual obligations and negotiating amendments.
  • Setting objectives, and defining tasks for the project team, delegating authority and agreeing how risks will be shared as necessary.
  • Actively managing the project – both technically and financially, in accordance with corporate and business policies, directives, guidance and procedures.
  • Whilst monitoring and reporting performance against programme, technical quality, financial and KPI targets; taking, or advising the PD on the requirements for, any necessary mitigation actions to prevent targets being missed, controlling change and managing effective change control process.
  • Leading the project team – building, motivating, maintaining, coaching, guiding and developing the team; including providing regular feedback to all team members and ensuring staff have the necessary H&S training for discharging their design duties and defining line of communication and the responsibilities for co-ordination within the project.
  • Assembling and owning the project delivery programme and delivery plans; providing project reports on a regular basis to convey cost and schedule information.
  • Closing out the project on completion, archiving project documentation, updating market information, ensuring that lessons learnt are captured and disseminated internally and ensuring that a Client Satisfaction survey is initiated.

Requirements:

  • Chartered Surveyor (MRICS) or equivalent with demonstrable experience managing design commissions on large building/ infrastructure projects.
  • Excellent interpersonal, organisational and communication skills both verbal and written.
  • Ability to manage and motivate a team and demonstrate good leadership qualities.
  • Understands and has experience in deploying various forms of construction contract, in particular NEC3 and JCT.
  • Experienced at preparing Scope Definition papers, Project Execution Plans, Risk Registers, Change Control Logs and Client & Stakeholder Management plans.
  • Experience of managing design projects to time, cost and quality objectives and familiar with programming and earned value techniques.
  • Familiar with BIM and has an understanding of 3D modelling tools for design and coordination purposes.
  • Customer focused with excellent client relationship management skills.
  • A supportive and encouraging approach to mentoring less experienced members of the team.
  • Be available to travel across the UK and work away from home, when required.
  • Holds a valid UK driving licence.

Our client is offering  a competitive salary and a fantastic opportunity for career development, for more information and to apply for the position submit your CV to this vacancy.

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