Senior Building Surveyor / Employer's Agent – Development Monitoring / Recovery & Special Situations London / Hybrid / Remote
Senior / Associate Director
£65,000–£85,000 + bonus (can go higher for exceptional / Director level hires)
If you have spent your career solving difficult construction problems, this could be one of the more interesting roles you will come across.
This is not a conventional Building Surveying position.
You'll join a highly regarded specialist Development Monitoring consultancy that advises banks and development lenders on construction projects across the UK.
An increasing part of their work now involves projects where something has gone wrong and the lender needs considerably more than a standard monthly monitoring report.
A contractor may have failed. A developer may be in difficulty. There may be quality issues, health and safety concerns, incomplete works or simply a project where nobody is quite sure what the real position is.
That is where you come in.
The Role You'll work on distressed, problematic and unusual developments, in London and further afield at times, helping establish what is happening and what needs to happen next.
Depending on the project, the work could include:
Contract Administration;
Employer's Agent duties;
Clerk of Works / quality inspections;
reviewing building contracts and consultant appointments;
assessing defects and workmanship;
health and safety monitoring;
programme and construction risk;
working with contractors, developers, lenders and professional teams;
helping establish a practical route through to completion;
producing clear written advice for lenders and other stakeholders.
Every instruction can be different.
You may be brought into a development after a contractor has failed, where work needs inspecting and a completion strategy agreed. On another project, the lender may simply need an experienced technical person to get underneath the information being presented and establish the true position.
There is also likely to be an element of Development Monitoring.
You don't necessarily need to be an experienced Development Monitoring Surveyor, but an understanding of what Development Monitoring involves — or previous exposure to lender-funded development and monitor...
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