Building Surveyor in Norfolk

Location: East Anglia

Hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

At Innovus, we are committed to delivering market leading solutions and professional services. As a Building Surveyor, you will be contributing to our vision to be recognised as the market leading provider of services to the UK’s property sector. This role will involve covering a region including Norfolk and parts of Cambridgeshire and Suffolk.

Main Purpose of the role:

• Undertaking surveying activities and delivering projects that significantly contribute to the success of the team.
• Imparting technical knowledge and experience across the team, that positively benefits our clients and customers alike.
• Acting as a critical support to the Regional Surveying and Projects Manager, being able to assist and engage on projects of a highly technical or process intensive nature.

Main Responsibilities:

• Surveying properties and preparing specifications of works.
• Preparing documentation in accordance with CDM 2015 and ensuring compliance with the regulations and best practice.
• Ensuring that all major works are carried out in line with Company procedures and legal requirements, including compliance with Section 20 consultation under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985.
• Supervising works to buildings to ensure excellent customer care, exemplary contractor performance, and technically superb completed work.
• Contributing to excellent contractor and consultant performance management; building constructive working relationships with partners to improve customer service, value for money and quality of workmanship.
• Undertaking CPD in accordance with the requirements of your professional body, including receiving and delivering CPD within the surveying team.
• Identifying potential business opportunities outside of core client and assisting the Surveying and Projects Manager in obtaining new business with external clients.
• Linking with the core client major works team to ensure good communications between the major works team and the surveying team.
• Owning and undertaking key improvement projects to support and develop the team direction in both capability and product offering.
• Carrying out any other duties in relation to the efficient operation of the team and assist the Surveying and Project Managers as required.

Areas of Responsibility/Accountability:

This role is part of one of three Regional Surveying and Project Delivery teams across the UK.

Key Interfaces:

• Property Managers, Regional Managers and Heads of Operations.
• Business to Business Interfaces through business growth.
• External businesses and organisations, in particular key customers and clients.

Qualifications:

Obtained appropriate level of technical qualification (e.g. Degree / HND) in Surveying or other building related subject, plus professional experience having attained MRICS, MCIOB or similar level of professional qualification.

Experience:

• Substantial technical surveying experience in the Property Management environment with a wide range of building types.
• Demonstrable successful project delivery experience managing contractors and consultants as required.
• Sound commercial understanding of a surveying ‘practice’ and ability to clearly articulate commercial performance with senior managers.
• Experience and willingness to build relationships with the team to identify and drive improvement opportunities.