Residential Surveyor in Brighton

The Role

As an AssocRICS, MRICS or FRICS Residential Surveyor, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality valuation reports for lending purposes alongside private home surveys. Working with market-leading iPad technology featuring some of the quickest mapped forms in the market, you’ll enjoy streamlined workflows that significantly reduce admin and maximise your productivity. You’ll enjoy a high level of autonomy, managing your own workload to ensure timely, accurate, and professional reporting. As a trusted representative of SDL Surveying, you will also build positive relationships with homeowners and stakeholders during property visits. We value adaptability and innovation, and you’ll be encouraged to embrace new inspection techniques and approaches that enhance service delivery and client satisfaction.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary package
• Uncapped, market-leading bonus scheme based on performance and productivity
• Flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance
• Defined geographical patch to reduce travel and improve efficiency
• Dedicated operational support, including a Field Relationship Coordinator
• Generous annual leave, with the option to buy and sell days
• Company car or car allowance, plus mileage at government rates

Why Join SDL Surveying?

• Work with the UK’s largest independent surveying provider, offering consistent and reliable workloads.
• Approximately 95% of instructions are delivered directly to your iPad, reducing admin time and supporting a better work life balance.
• A strong retention culture, with 60% of surveyors staying 5+ years and 28% over 10 years.
• A supportive environment that combines scale with a non-corporate, people-focused culture.

Employee Benefits

• SDL Savings Programme with discounts on holidays, supermarkets, and high street retailers
• Tax-free vouchers for meals and refreshments on the go
• Annual wellbeing allowance towards fitness, nutrition, and lifestyle activities
• Free, confidential counselling service
• Two “Me Time” half-days annually
• Private healthcare (with optional family cover), including digital GP access and annual health checks
• Critical illness cover and death-in-service benefit
• Team social events and two paid charity days per year

Professional Development

• Pension contributions and professional subscription fees covered
• Structured career development via the SDL Academy
• Access to CPD sessions and an annual company conference

SDL Surveying is committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, including ex-offenders.