Senior Chartered Building Surveyor - Lead & Deliver Projects in Southampton

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As Senior/Chartered Building Surveyor you will be an independent person delivering a wide variety of more complex professional and higher value contract services for public and private clients. You will also be responsible as delivery lead working with other team members and AECOM staff from other parts of the business to deliver a service.

There will be a focus on client care, mentoring, team management, service delivery and business development both externally and internally within AECOM. You will manage the implementation of new technologies and ensure compliance with relevant legislation.

Additionally you will demonstrate a strong commitment to building and maintaining client relationships, while also overseeing the financial management of multiple projects, including client invoicing through AECOM’s Workbench project management system. As a leader of the local team, you will ensure financial targets are consistently achieved. As a recognized expert in building surveying, you will bring a robust background in design and contract administration to every project undertaken.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Lead on individual Building Surveying, Project Management, and Contract Administration commissions
• Client development skills to develop business with existing clients and confidence to win new work
• Continuous improvement to our standards, processes and knowledge to deliver to our core clients
• Mentoring and developing Graduate Building Surveyors and other team members
• Comply with all QSE procedures
• Establish client briefs, appropriate fees, and cost control through to completion
• Financial, commercial and risk management from project inception through to completion on own projects
• Conducting a portfolio of fee based activities with our key multi sector client base
• Fully involved in or managing others for the production of drawings, specifications and tender documents
• Survey and Report writing for the full range of typical core Building Surveying services
• Construction monitoring and quarterly snagging assessments

Qualifications:

• Ideally Degree qualified in Building Surveying
• Chartered Status Holder
• Sound technical ability for the advisory and project disciplines within building surveying.
• NEC3/4 knowledge preferred.
• Ability to travel for short periods for work delivery within UK and Worldwide.
• Act as a mentor for team members
• Willing to be Security Cleared

Experience:

• Experience in all core Building Surveying work areas especially design and project management
• Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams
• Excellent client and team interpersonal skills
• Be decisive - Know how to prioritize, advocate focus and accountability
• Be impactful - Use clear and frequent communications, drive execution and results.
• Be client-focused - Be collaborative, innovative and strategic.
• Be the role model - Lead by example, demand excellence, maintain safety and integrity as top priorities.

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities.

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role.