Building Surveyor - South Region

We have a current opportunity for a Building Surveyor - South on a permanent basis. The position will be home based with travel across the Southern Region. Details below - for a full information pack on this regional building surveying role please get in touch.

Role summary

As a highly motivated Building Surveyor you'll manage and assist with the maintenance and improvements of the Retail Division's portfolio of shops, stores, storage units and offices.

Covering a wide range of building surveying services, around both reactive and planned maintenance, servicing the requirements of the Retail Division.

This is a home-based role with extensive travel throughout England, primarily your regional patch, though periodically extending across the country.

Key responsibilities

You'll be responsible for a regional patch of a network of leasehold shops and stores, as well as assisting with stores around the UK to meet emergent requirements. As a specialist business partner, you will deliver a full range of building surveying services including:

• Manging a number of building repair, refurbishment and fit out projects across the estate, from inception through to completion
• Preparation of contract/tender documentation, including leading on design and specification matters and cost management
• CDM duties including Principal Designer, complete with associated advice to business partners
• Completing Planned Preventative Maintenance inspections on a wide range of leasehold properties across the estate and preparing professional survey reports relating to these inspections
• Defects analysis and active management of building maintenance issues, including the management of Contractors and Consultants across a wide range of planned and reactive maintenance activities
• Acquisition/disposal surveys
• Providing dilapidations advice to internal stakeholders, including undertaking dilapidations assessments and advising on liabilities
• Access audits and associated advice * Liaising with third parties, including Fire Officers, Environmental Health Officers, Loss Adjusters and Landlord's Surveyors

Person specification

Knowledge, training and qualifications

• Professional building / construction management qualification (MRICS, MCIOB)
• Sound technical knowledge of all legislation relating to the fit out and occupation of leasehold retail premises. (Building Regulations, Planning, CDM, Fire Safety Order, Health & Safety and Asbestos)
• Good working knowledge of landlord and tenant law specifically in relation to repairing obligations and dilapidations.
• Good levels of computer literacy with working knowledge of MS Word, Excel, and AutoCAD LT

Experience

• Extensive experience of all key aspects of traditional building surveying disciplines including: » defect analysis » building pathology » dilapidations » acquisition surveys » fit out design and contract administration » ideally with a focus on developing » maintaining a large retail estate
• Experience of delivering / managing planned investment projects, reactive repairs, cyclical repairs and planned maintenance programmes

Morgan Hunt is a multi-award-winning recruitment business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies. Morgan Hunt is an equal opportunities employer. Job suitability is assessed on merit in accordance with the individual's skills, qualifications and abilities to perform the relevant duties required in a particular role.