Job Description - Building Surveyor
Building Surveyor in Manchester (M1) | MA COST CONSULTING LIMITED Search Search These jobs were popular with other job seekers Building Surveyor CURRIE & BROWN UK LIMITED Manchester (M1) Competitive + Benefits 1 week ago Building Surveyor Career Makers Manchester (M23) From £50,000 to £60,000 per annum 1 week ago Building Surveyor or Quantity Surveyor - Move into Project Monitoring Sento Talent Manchester, Greater Manchester £55k - 65k per year + Good Bonuses + Benefits 3 weeks ago Building Surveyor IPS Group Manchester, Greater Manchester £50000 - £70000 per annum, Benefits Company Car / Car Allownce 1 month ago Project Quantity Surveyor Building Careers UK Ltd Manchester (M1) £45000 - £58000 per annum 1 week ago Cost Manager/Project Quantity Surveyor - Construction Turner & townsend Manchester, Greater Manchester Competitive 1 month ago Chartered Valuation Surveyor Building Careers UK Ltd Manchester (M1) £50000 - £70000 per annum 3 weeks ago Quantity Surveyor ALDWYCH CONSULTING LTD Baring Street Ind Est, Manchester (M1), M1 2GH £45000 - £65000 per annum + Benefits & Package 4 days ago Contractor Quantity Surveyor Career Makers Manchester (M23) From £50,000 to £55,000 per annum 1 week ago Project Monitoring Surveyor Sento Talent Manchester, Greater Manchester £75k - 85k per year + 25% bonus + Benefits 3 weeks ago Building Surveyor CURRIE & BROWN UK LIMITED Manchester (M1) Competitive + Benefits 1 week ago Building Surveyor Career Makers Manchester (M23) From £50,000 to £60,000 per annum 1 week ago Building Surveyor or Quantity Surveyor - Move into Project Monitoring Sento Talent Manchester, Greater Manchester £55k - 65k per year + Good Bonuses + Benefits 3 weeks ago Building Surveyor IPS Group Manchester, Greater Manchester £50000 - £70000 per annum, Benefits Company Car / Car Allownce 1 month ago Project Quantity Surveyor Building Careers UK Ltd Manchester (M1) £45000 - £58000 per annum 1 week ago Cost Manager/Project Quantity Surveyor - Construction Turner & townsend Manchester, Greater Manchester Competitive 1 month ago Chartered Valuation Surveyor Building Careers UK Ltd Manchester (M1) £50000 - £70000 per annum 3 weeks ago Quantity Surveyor ALDWYCH CONSULTING LTD Baring Street Ind Est, Manchester (M1), M1 2GH £45000 - £65000 per annum + Benefits & Package 4 days ago Contractor Quantity Surveyor Career Makers Manchester (M23) From £50,000 to £55,000 per annum 1 week ago Project Monitoring Surveyor Sento Talent Manchester, Greater Manchester £75k - 85k per year + 25% bonus + Benefits 3 weeks ago Building Surveyor MA COST CONSULTING LIMITED Manchester (M1) Permanent Published: 6 days ago From £33,000 to £37,000 per annum £33K-£37K Depending on the level of Building Surveyor MA COST CONSULTING LIMITED JOB SUMMARY The Building Surveyor will provide reliable assessments and evaluations of buildings to ensure they meet legal and safety standards. This role involves conducting thorough inspections, identifying structural issues, advising on repair and maintenance solutions, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. The Building Surveyor plays a critical part in project planning, risk management, and sustainability initiatives, working closely with project teams, contractors and clients to deliver safe and efficient building solutions. ROLE REQUIREMENTS 1. Providing a consultancy advisory service to clients on a range of building and property issues including technical, financial, legal, environmental, regulatory and restoration matters. 2. Providing clients timely advice in relation to legal and planning issues including managing the planning and building regulations application process. Liaising with local planning bodies to ensure that projects meet safety, sustainability and preservation standards. 3. Carrying out building surveys to a consistently high standard across multiple construction projects at any one time. 4. Writing technical reports and preparing technical information in relation to commissions. 5. Providing clients advice on property alterations, improvements, extensions and deterioration of defects of properties. 6. Providing clients advice and support (and monitoring) with unexpected damage (fire, flood) on property including assessing the condition and any defects in the building. Assisting with insurance claims or a financial settlement where required. 7. To assist and oversee any small scale building works when architects are not required. 8. To work closely with other service divisions such as Cost Management and Projects to ensure that collaborative client projects are delivered on time with scope and to budget. 9. Attending conferences and networking events. Build new business contacts/networks. 10. Attending site meetings, and internal meetings as required to assist with communication and collaboration. 11. To seek guidance from senior colleagues when required. Supporting and guiding junior members of staff with internal proto-col and technical skills/knowledge. JOB PERFORMANCE INDICATORS KEY SKILLS 1. Organisational and Time Management Skills The ability to oversee multiple projects and organise own time and deadlines to meet differing client needs. 2. Accuracy and Due Diligence The ability to identify, assess, and mitigate risks with excellent technical attention to detail. Strong measurement and cost planning skills. 3. Effective Communication An ability to communicate clearly and effectively across all levels, with clients and external stakeholders, including leading meetings when required. 4. Team Work and Collaboration Building healthy team and client relationships to foster a positive and cooperative work environment. 5. Technical Knowledge & Skills The ability to understand the administration of building contracts. Applying commercial project management knowledge, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope and to budget. 6. Knowledge Development To maintain and establish knowledge on industry trends, regulations and best practice. MAC VALUES 1. Collaboration ‘ Stronger Together’. Working collaboratively as part of a team and building positive working relationships. This could be by demonstrating to others that you have an organised approach, meeting the expectations of those who you are working for, and those who are supporting you. 2. Client Focused ‘ Listen to Clients. Learn. Make it Happen’. Demonstrating in your work that you are continuously enhancing client experience. This could be ensuring that communication with clients is responsive and affective through meeting deadlines and their expectations. 3. Leadership ‘Be the Difference’. Encouraging and training and supporting more junior members of your team. This could be sharing knowledge or consistently setting examples and being a role model. This could be supporting staff on apprenticeships through coaching and guidance. 4. Excellence ‘Think Solutions. Not Problems’. Demonstrating and communicating solutions and smarter ways to approach a piece of work. This could be questioning an approach/method with a new way of doing something, making it more efficient. 5. Accountability ‘Do What’s Right. Not What’s Easy’. Always following through on commitments and tasks whether set by your team or by clients. Carrying responsibility of a tasks from start to finish. This could be regularly updating Senior Managers or clients on progress and stages of your work. ROLE CHALLENGES This role should aim to work with minimum assistance and independently. They should be developing a balance between ensuring guidance is requested when needed without expecting the same level of supervision as the Assistant role. Communication and organisational skills are crucial at this level with the aim to develop a level of independence whilst continuing to build their knowledge of the administration of construction contracts from inception to completion. AIM OF ROLE Working independently with minimal assistance Leading on client projects. 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