Senior Building Surveyor

This role has excellent prospects for a Building Surveyor who has a strong ambition to progress and enjoys working collaboratively within a vibrant team. The successful candidate will have experience in managing client relationships and a specific interest/experience in project management.

As a Senior Project Manager/Building Surveyor, you will be responsible for the 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 objectives 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 a clear understanding of contractual obligations and negotiating amendments.
• Setting objectives, 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.
• Monitoring and reporting performance against programme, technical quality, financial and KPI targets; advising the PD on necessary mitigation actions to prevent targets being missed, controlling change and managing an effective change control process.
• Leading the project team – building, motivating, maintaining, coaching, guiding and developing the team; providing regular feedback to all team members and ensuring staff have the necessary H&S training for discharging their design duties.
• 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.
• 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.