Chartered Building Surveyor

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Location: Atherstone CV9

Hours: Monday to Friday 9am-5pm (37hrs per week)

Pay: £400-450 per day paid weekly via umbrella

Duration: Ongoing Contract - Long Term

General Job Objective:

To provide a full range of building surveying functions, including programming and carrying out building condition surveys, creation of a Planned Property Maintenance (PPM) programme for the commercial portfolio. Prioritising and carrying out maintenance works to the commercial portfolio, preparation of drawings and job specific work schedules and project management for small, large and complex projects. Creating and providing future maintenance works budgets to finance teams.

Key Tasks

• To manage, schedule and carry out detailed site, building and stock condition surveys, to enable the preparation of drawings (CAD), work schedules, specifications, contract and tender documentation and quotations for works. Ensuring that all works are delivered on time, within annualised budgets and to allocated annual spend profiles.

• To work in full compliance and keep up to date with appropriate legislation, building regulations and planning requirements relevant to your areas of responsibility, particularly in relation to project designs, detailing work specifications and the CDM Regulations.

• To be able to react to situations on site with respect to structural diagnostics and building pathology, to enable the determination of remedial works and production of detailed work specification.

• To assist in co-ordinating the preparation of drawings, specifications, tender documentation, contract documentation, quotations, tenders and programmes of work for all contracts.

• To manage the performance and progress of relevant minor and major works programmes against allocated budgets and undertake corrective action as and when necessary to ensure programme delivery.

• To be responsible for the supervision of contractor or tradespersons in relation to the above programmes.

• To produce and present summary progress reports identifying all contract activities, spend against budgets and profiles, customer satisfaction and any corrective actions to relevant progress meetings.

• To make recommendations to the Asset Management Team regarding potential programmes of maintenance and improvement.

Minimum Requirement:

• A minimum of five years experience of working within the field of building surveying, stock investment, maintenance, improvement, feasibility studies. MRICS qualification required.
• A clear understanding of building surveying, maintenance, programming works preparation of drawings, work schedules and project management. High quality communication and negotiation skills.