Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Arcadis is seeking an experienced Associate Development Monitoring Surveyor, based in Edinburgh or Glasgow, to join our Lenders & Investors Transaction Advisory team. This senior client-facing role will lead complex monitoring and technical due diligence commissions, advise funders on key project risks, and support UK and Ireland business growth.
Our Places business creates and manages sustainable places where people live, work and thrive. The Lenders & Investors team provides independent development monitoring, project monitoring and technical due diligence advice to banks, investors, debt funds and other funding stakeholders across real estate and infrastructure-backed developments.
Role description:
As an Associate Development Monitoring Surveyor, you will lead the delivery of high-quality monitoring and due diligence services for lender and investor clients. You will provide clear, commercially focused advice on development risk, manage client relationships, lead multi-disciplinary inputs, mentor team members and contribute to business growth through strong client engagement, technical excellence and effective commercial management.
Role accountabilities:
Client leadership and business development
- Act as a trusted adviser to lender, investor and funder clients, deliver a strong client experience and build strong relationships.
- Contribute to the growth of the Development Monitoring business through client development, securing repeat appointments and winning new sector-focused opportunities.
- Represent Arcadis professionally in client meetings, funding discussions and wider market engagement.
Technical delivery and risk advice
- Lead and independently deliver technical due diligence and development monitoring services.
- Identify and clearly communicate key risks relating to cost, programme, procurement, contracts, planning, statutory approvals, quality, delivery strategy and funding conditions.
- Provide concise, evidence-based recommendations that help clients understand residual risk and make informed funding decisions.
- Review development documentation, including contracts, appointments, collateral warranties, third party rights, bonds, insurance, security requirements and loan compliance obligations.
- Undertake ongoing monitoring during construction, including site progress, cost reporting, programme status, change control, contingency, statutory matters and project risk.
- Verify drawdown requests and provide clear recommendations on funding release, including any conditions, qualifications or risk matters requiring client attention.
- Coordinate inputs from internal specialists and external consultants to provide integrated, funder-focused reporting.
Team leadership and quality assurance
- Lead, mentor and support surveyors and consultants at different career stages, helping to build capability across the team.
- Review work prepared by others and ensure reports are clear, consistent, technically robust and aligned with Arcadis quality standards.
- Contribute to a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, accountability and continuous improvement.
Commercial management
- Prepare and manage fee proposals, scopes of service, project budgets, invoicing and commercial performance.
- Work with colleagues and managers to ensure commissions are delivered efficiently, profitably and in line with agreed scope and client expectations.
- Identify opportunities to improve service delivery, strengthen client outcomes and support sustainable business growth.
Qualifications & Experience:
MRICS or equivalent professional qualification.
- Degree in Quantity Surveying, Building Surveying, Project Management or another relevant property, construction or built environment discipline.
- Strong experience in development monitoring, technical due diligence, lender advisory or a closely related consultancy discipline.
- Proven track record working with lenders, investors, debt funds or other funding stakeholders in a client-facing role.
- Ability to lead commissions independently and provide clear advice on cost, programme, procurement, contract, statutory, quality and delivery risks.
- Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to produce clear, concise and commercially focused reports for senior client audiences.
- Strong understanding of property development, construction procurement, funding structures, market trends and development risk management.
- Experience coordinating multi-disciplinary inputs and reviewing the work of others to maintain quality and consistency.
- Established network within the investor or development funding markets in Scotland and the wider UK
Desirable experience
- Experience leading or growing a regional team or service line.
- Experience reviewing loan documentation, security documentation, collateral warranties, third party rights, performance bonds, parent company guarantees and cost overrun arrangements.
- Experience preparing proposals, managing client accounts and supporting business development activity.
What success looks like
- Trusted client relationships that lead to repeat appointments, new opportunities and business growth.
- High-quality, risk-focused reports that support informed lender and investor decision-making.
- Strong commercial performance across commissions, including effective scope, fee, budget and invoicing management.
- Visible contribution to team development, mentoring and technical quality.
- Consistent delivery of clear, practical and commercially relevant advice that strengthens Arcadis’ position in the Development Monitoring market.
Why Arcadis?
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.
