Building Surveyor NEW TfGM Greater Manchester (Piccadilly Place) Posted today Manchester £47,53[...]

Are you an experienced Building Surveyor looking for challenging and rewarding projects? If the answer is yes, you’ll feel professionally at home at Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM). These are exciting times in Greater Manchester and we are recruiting a Building Surveyor to join our Facilities Management Services team at TfGM!

Your Role

You will manage the delivery of projects and building surveying objectives to time, budget and quality standards within the Facilities Management function, ensuring the smooth integration of new and refurbished facilities and projects into operational use. It will be your responsibility to Project Manage and maintain the administration from pre-tender design to post project completion and ensuring maintenance requirements and strategies are embedded in the process. Undertaking building surveys for various purposes including producing schedules of dilapidation, condition surveys, defect diagnosis, technical due diligence, planned maintenance, statutory compliance, alterations and providing building work cost estimates as required. Writing technical reports following the surveys. This is a hybrid role where you will be expected to work in the office 2 days per week.

Who are we?

TfGM owns, manages and operates some of the most significant buildings and structures in Greater Manchester. Our Facilities Management team covers everything from day-to-day maintenance to the delivery of refurbishment and new build projects. At the moment we are investing in improving our properties and transportation infrastructure through refurbishments, and several exciting new-build projects. The breadth of work you’ll get involved in as a Building Surveyor in TfGM is quite extensive.

What you do and how you do it

What you do and how you do it is important whatever type of role you work in at TfGM and even small behaviours and actions can have a really big impact. At TfGM, our behaviours bring to life our values of Deliver, Care and Adapt.

Ideal candidates

Ideal candidates will be educated to degree level in Building Surveying, Project Management, Construction Management or a related discipline and Membership of a recognised built environment professional body such as the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) or member of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB). You will have extensive knowledge of construction, project and property requirements gained within a mixture of private and public sector experiences showing development through involvement in a series of progressively demanding roles. Experience of leading and coordinating multi-disciplinary teams to deliver complex projects and carrying out building surveys for various purposes is required for this role.

What we can offer you

This is a fixed term role for 2 years with a salary of £47,539 - £52,866 per annum depending on skills and experience. As an investor in people, we will make sure you’ll never stop learning and progressing. Working with like-minded, equally passionate professionals, no two projects are the same and each will bring its own challenges and opportunities. At TfGM we encourage candidates to discuss flexible working options at any stage of the recruitment process.

• 28 days holiday per annum (plus bank holidays)
• Free bus travel within Greater Manchester and free Rail or Metrolink travel to and from work within the Greater Manchester boundary
• Local Government Defined Benefit Pension Scheme which includes life cover of 3x your salary and options to increase your pension contributions
• Commitment to learning and personal development and upskilling with reimbursement of professional fees, where essential to the role
• We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to staff via our employee assistance programme when required
• Enhanced family-friendly leave policies, including those supporting fertility treatment, alongside flexible and hybrid working and a special leave policy to support a range of unexpected events.

Please note that qualification criteria may apply, including a requirement to have been employed with the organisation for a minimum specified period of time.

What’s next?

If you believe you have the skills and experience required, we’d really like to hear from you. To apply please submit your CV and also provide a covering letter providing clear examples of how your experience meets the requirements of the role, all appointments will be based on merit. Our short-listing process is anonymised, so please do not include your name or contact details on either of these documents. If any personal details are included these will be visible to the hiring manager.

Internal candidates - check with your line manager before applying for a secondment, to make sure you can be released from your substantive role.

TfGM is proud to be an equal opportunities employer that encourages and celebrates diversity. We want to recruit and retain a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and welcome individuals from all backgrounds by committing to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We will offer support and reasonable adjustments if required and we also have a Guaranteed Assessment Scheme.

For this opportunity, you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK.

Please note we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.