Building Surveyor in City of London

About The Role
Currie & Brown is seeking a talented Senior Building Surveyor to join our growing London team. This is an exciting opportunity to work across a diverse and expanding portfolio of projects and clients throughout London and the Home Counties, delivering services ranging from condition surveys and dilapidations through to employer's agent and project management instructions. As part of our wider LSE Building Surveying team, you'll be based in our friendly London office, working in a supportive and collaborative environment with the autonomy to manage your own projects and clear opportunities for career development.
You'll be part of a team delivering a full range of professional and project-related building surveying services across both private and public sectors. This includes design, specification, and contract administration, alongside building surveys, dilapidations, and clerk of works duties. Working closely with project leaders and colleagues, you'll help ensure high-quality service delivery, support knowledge sharing, and contribute to successful client outcomes while helping drive our culture of innovation and excellence.
The role - what is it we would like you to do?
As a building surveyor your core duties will involve:
• Delivering projects, commissions, and professional assignments from inception to completion
• Maintaining effective communication to ensure all information is available for the successful completion of projects and liaising with other managers to ensure efficient financial control
• Assist with the managing of client/project teams to deliver building surveying services profitably and on time
• Visit sites to undertake surveys, visit construction sites, meet with sub-contractors, contractors, clients and other staff as required to deliver projects.
• Delivering all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner
• Representing the company in a professional and diligent manner, meeting, negotiating and corresponding with clients to form strong and long-lasting working relationships
What skills and attributes are we looking for from you:
• BSc in building surveying or equivalent
• Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS)
• Good technical writing and communication skills (both internal and external)
• Proficient skills in the use of AutoCAD and NBS beneficial
• Experience in the higher education, local government and healthcare sectors beneficial
• Significant exposure to, and good working relations with, private and public sector clients beneficial
• Well-developed skills in the areas of surveys, project management, clerk of works, repairs and maintenance beneficial
• Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined and commercially astute
• A team player with a 'can-do' attitude
• Outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful and flexible when speaking to colleagues and clients alike
• Good IT skills (AutoCAD, NBS, MS Project, Outlook, Word, Excel and other bespoke software)
About You
About Us
Why choose Currie & Brown?
Unlike some businesses, we prioritise for the long term and honour our commitments. We are compassionate and inclusive in the way we approach our work, and always look to invest in our people's futures. Be it a desire to work internationally, a drive to progress, or even a curiosity to operate in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage - providing advice, support and the structure to achieve. That is why so many of us have established and built successful careers here for so long.
We don't offer just a job we offer a career with clear structured route to progression, and a track record of making international mobility happen with international moves encouraged on a permanent or secondment basis.
We are an international industry leader - Working for us provides the chance to work for a leading brand with a focus on excellence, being digitally-led in our approach, we present the chance to work on some of the world's most prestigious projects and for some of the world's top clients.
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day and that is why we firmly believe equality, diversity and inclusion should be taken seriously. Diverse people, backgrounds and experiences develop the most innovative of ideas, they are essential to our success, that is why we actively encourage applications from all backgrounds.
We are a truly independent business where our people are empowered to make quick, agile decisions that drive real impact. As part of Sidara, we collaborate directly with some of the world's brightest partner brands in our industry, offering exciting opportunities to innovate and grow.
We offer comprehensive benefits packages in all our global regions which have been specifically tailored to offer additional rewards to our employees from entry level to senior executives.

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