The Role
The opportunity has arisen for a Building Surveyor to join the Birmingham Building Consultancy Team of BNP Paribas Real Estate. Due to a steady increase in opportunities and workload, we are seeking to strengthen our team with a surveyor who has either recently qualified or who is more experienced and looking for further career development.
The team is well established and highly respected in the market place, with an enviable client base and a broad portfolio of instructions. You can expect to be busy from day-one, working within an experienced team, predominantly undertaking project and professional services for our investor and occupier clients. The role offers real variety and career development, with continual training being embedded in the team philosophy. The team works across a range of property sectors and the role will cover the midlands area, with the potential to become involved in a wider range of services nationally.
You will be involved with a range of work including technical due diligence surveys, dilapidations, building pathology, planned preventative maintenance, neighbourly matters, licences to alter and specifying and administering refurbishment projects. Through the role, you will gain an all-round appreciation of commercial building surveying with the opportunity to progress your career to the next level.
From the outset there will be a high level of client contact and the opportunity to build strong networks throughout the national business. The role requires the candidate to be self-motivated, responsible for managing their own workload and able to work within multi-disciplinary teams delivering integrated services to clients.
Responsibilities
• Supporting instructions, from inception through to completion, reporting to directors of the business.
• Working as part of a local and national team for the delivery of instructions.
• Responsible for managing your own workload on a day-to-day and longer-term basis.
• Undertaking technical due diligence instructions with senior members of the team, working with internal and external specialist consultants.
• Carrying out design, specification and contract administration duties principally for refurbishment, repair and maintenance projects. These projects can range from £50k to in excess of £2m.
• Undertake project management responsibilities on larger projects, leading projects and often co-ordinating multi discipline design services, ensuring the project is delivered on time and within budget.
• Undertaking dilapidations instructions, acting for both landlords and tenants, covering assessments, preparation of schedules and negotiation.
• Handling claims and negotiations with loss adjusters leading to the preparation of drawings and specifications for remedial work
• Supporting the appraisal and monitoring of new developments for owners, occupiers, and funders.
• Undertaking reinstatement cost assessments.
• Preparing planned preventative maintenance schedules.
• Preparing schedules of condition reports.
• Reviewing and approving tenant’s licences for alterations.
• Providing technical building pathology advice.
• Carry out building, measured and condition surveys
• Prepare Notices, Schedules of Condition and Awards for Party Wall matters
As well as the technical requirements of the role, you will support business development activities. You will be expected to support client relationships, often at a senior level and work within the department to build and maintain new business opportunities.
You will be required to:
• Work within clearly defined, well established processes.
• Communicate effectively within the team and to clients
• Proactively solve problems and find solutions, consulting with more experienced colleagues on more difficult or unfamiliar situations.
• Be commercially minded for winning work and business development
• Capable of managing individual team members, organising their work where necessary and providing guidance on projects
• Produce high quality written work.
• Work within BNPPRE’s quality management processes and procedures.
• Hold a full (ideally clean) driver’s licence.
• Be proficient with the use of Autocad and completing design drawings and layout plans
Person specification
Qualifications
• Degree in Building Surveying
• MRICS qualified, or nearing qualification
Experience & skill set
You will possess strong inter-personal skills, be sociable and prepared to proactively work within a busy, friendly and highly professional team. You will support and work with colleagues at all levels, have strong IT, time management and communication skills, have a working knowledge of AutoCAD, be accurate in your work and have an eye for detail.
We are proud to offer award-winning benefits to support and reward our employees:
- Heath & Leisure: Private medical cover, 25 days annual leave + public holidays (the option of purchasing up to 5 additional days via flex benefits), health screening, gym discounts, wellbeing support, volunteering opportunities, cycle to work scheme, eye care voucher, travel & retail discounts, travel insurance, concierge service, kids pass, open fairways golf card, great company culture and social events (including sports teams, charity events, art pass), perks at work
- Financial: Pension, company car allowance, life assurance at 8 x basic salary, group income protection (long term disability insurance), interest free season ticket loan, bonus scheme - you will be eligible to participate in the Company’s Bonus Scheme, share incentive plan, financial and mortgage advice
BNP Paribas Real Estate is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to race, colour, gender, age, creed, sex, religion, national origin, disability (physical or mental), marital status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, or any other legally protected status.
Please note: This is a Direct Search by BNP Paribas Real Estate. Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted until briefed by a member of the recruitment team, nor will fees be paid for unsolicited CVs, even if provided by PSL agencies.
