Building Surveyor (Full-time, permanent)
Location: 5 Landscape Close, Bicester, Oxfordshire, OX25 3SX
Salary: £50,000 - £60,000 per annum (dependent on experience)
Plus: Company car and fuel allowance, pension scheme, expenses, generous holiday entitlement, and free on-site parking.
As a Building Surveyor for Hughes & Associates Property Services Ltd you will provide professional advice on property and construction, ranging from large value projects to more minor works and repairs.
To complete detailed reports, specifications and building surveys; identify defects and advise on repair, maintenance and restoration/remedial options including project management. Projects include PFI Hospitals, Local Authority Properties, Social housing and Listed Buildings.
Liaise with clients, construction companies and any other relevant persons.
Attend and chair meetings and represent the company, relationship building with clients.
We are looking within an area commutable for Oxfordshire, Greater London, Hertfordshire, Gloucester, Warwick, Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire.
Responsibilities
- Ensure projects are completed on budget and to schedule
- Advise clients on schemes and projects and determine requirements
- Prepare scheme designs with costings, programmes for completion of projects and specification of works
- Organise documents for tender and advise on appointing contractors, designers and procurement routes
- Determine the condition of existing buildings, identify and analyse defects, including proposals for repair, (Defect analysis)
- Advise on the management and supervision of maintenance of buildings
- Deal and advise on property legislation and building regulations
- Carry out feasibility studies
- Advise on the health and safety aspects of buildings
- Project management
- A knowledge of Fire risk assessments (desirable)
- IT skills and be analytically minded.
Working hours
Working hours are 8.30am to 4.30pm.
Meeting and socialising with clients can sometimes require out-of-hours working.
The work is less desk bound than some branches of surveying, with a large proportion of the working day spent on site. At times this may require working alone for significant periods of time.
There are options to work remotely, for report writing etc.
Some overnight travel may be required. All expenses paid.
You can expect 20 days annual leave plus bank holidays, to increase to 25 days (max)
Qualifications
Preferably RICS course qualified
A degree in building surveying or equivalent.
Post graduate experience
Benefits:
- Car Allowance
- Fuel/Expenses Card
- Travel expenses
- Pension
- Mobile Phone
- 20 days holiday + bank holidays – increasing 1-day per year of service, up to 25 days.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £50,000.00-£60,000.00 per year
Licence/Certification:
- Driving Licence (required)
Work Location: In person
