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Senior Building Surveyor

Salary
Location Birmingham
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This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

We are seeking a passionate and focused Senior level Building Surveyor who is looking to progress their career, working in an established team. Sectors are varied but include public buildings and estates, residential and housing, education, retail, healthcare, and commercial. You will be expected to be heavily involved in key client development, financial forecasting, team management and growth.

As a Senior Building Surveyor at Ridge you will benefit from on the job learning experiences whilst working on prestigious projects. Our projects include large residential, industrial, commercial and Educational schemes with contract values over £30 million to much smaller schemes across a variety of project management and core Building Surveying roles. You will also benefit from becoming part of our engaging and progressive culture which supports your continued development, career goals and who values your welfare. 

This is a great opportunity to grow your career within this established multi discipline consultancy.

What you need to do to be effective in this role

  • Client management and contract administration/practice duties
  • Provide advice on the design, construction, maintenance, repair and refurbishment of all types of residential, commercial properties and educational facilities
  • Carry out building, measured and condition surveys
  • Ensure buildings conform to the latest building regulations and technical standards
  • Taking particulars on site, writing up specifications, obtaining estimates, planning maintenance programmes and administering contracts for maintenance work
  • Analyse and report on building defects
  • Handling claims and negotiations with loss adjusters leading to the preparation of drawings and specifications for remedial work
  • Prepare schedules of dilapidations
  • Provide advice, prepare and submit planning applications
  • Undertake the role of quality monitor on various schemes including housing schemes
  • Prepare designs for extensions, refurbishment schemes and new build developments ranging from £50,000 to £4m
  • Prepare Notices, Schedules of Condition and Awards for Party Wall matters
  • Hands on delivery of building surveying services with bias to project work
  • Leading projects and often co-ordinating our in house multi discipline design services
  • Client management and development
  • Supervising, managing and mentoring junior members of the building surveying team
  • Technical reviews to manage the quality of our services

The skills and experience you need to have for this role

  • MRICS
  • Consultancy experience
  • Be commercially minded for winning work and business development
  • Capable of managing individual team members, organising their work where necessary and providing guidance on projects
  • Good communication and client facing skills
  • Excellent all-round technical building surveying knowledge
  • An analytical mind with a high level of intellect - combining excellent written and oral skills to produce considered and robust reports and recommendations

We are Ridge, a Built Environment Consultancy. We help our clients transform the quality and sustainability of the built environment.

Our 1,000+ people bring a vast range of skills, delivering a professional mindset, gritty discipline and a genuine passion to every one of the thousands of projects they undertake each year. They’re the foundation of our success - they drive our vision, embody our values and separate us from the competition.

Come and join us if you’re hungry to be part of an exceptional team - if you put quality first - if you’re motivated by ingenuity and if you’re always aspiring to be the very best.

Ridge core values 1. Quality and reliability Pressing for superior results - every time. 2. Agile and flexible Deep listening, a true understanding and workable, bespoke solutions in response. 3. Proactive and creative One step ahead, we dare to imagine a brighter world. 4. Entrepreneurial and dynamic Our inner spirit for learning, discovery and innovation inspires opportunities.

The benefits package we have put together for you supports every aspect of your life.

Annual
leave

A healthy holiday allowance that starts at 25 days pa, plus the option to buy, carry over or sell.

Community
spirit

You can take three volunteering days each year to spend time on causes close to your heart.

Mental
health

Mental Health First Aiders are here to support you, backed up by Unum’s Help@hand app.

Financial benefits

A path to peace of mind: life assurance, pension scheme and income protection.

Physical
wellbeing

Your health is a priority for us too, so we offer medical insurance, private GP access and discounted gym membership.

Flexible
working

Our flexible approach to hybrid working is there to suit you, your family and your team.

Career development

A pathway at Ridge that’s focused on your professional, personal or educational aspirations.

Extra
benefits

Performance bonus, car allowance and more based on your role - and progression.

We believe that everyone performs their best when they feel like they belong and can be their true selves at work. As an equal opportunities’ employer, we will support you to ensure you have everything you need to be successful and achieve your best in your career at Ridge. If you’d like to discuss accessibility, accommodations or adjustments during your application and selection process, please contact us at workwithus@ridge.co.uk and we will work with you to ensure you feel included and supported.

A polite note to Recruitment Agencies
We enjoy great relationships with our agency partners within our framework, and fully believe in the value of a blended approach to finding the best talent. However, we are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from agency partners at this time – any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownerships on any introduction that you make for roles that haven’t been briefed and released to you by our Talent Acquisition team.

We are committed to nurturing strong partnerships within our agency framework, but there are occasions where we looking to enlist the help of others. If you would be interested in working with us in the future, please send a message to workwithus@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.

A polite note to recruitment agencies

We are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from our agency partners. Any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownership on any introductions you make for roles that haven’t been briefed and released to you by our Talent Acquisition team.
If you are a recruitment agency who doesn’t currently work with Ridge but would like to, please send a message to workwithus@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.

We are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from our agency partners. Any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownership on any introductions you make for roles that haven’t been briefed and released to you by our Talent Acquisition team.

If you are a recruitment agency who doesn’t currently work with Ridge but would like to, please send a message to workwithus@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.

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