Excellent opportunity in London to join a company who care about your career development. This is an ideal role for someone who is ready to make a career move and hit the ground running, but knowing there is support there.
This role will suit Graduate Surveyors will have recently completed a degree in Building Surveying or who have been in the role of Building Surveyor for over 1 year and in the early stages of the APC. You will report to a Building Surveyor, Senior Surveyor or Associate Director. The following will give you a guide to likely job responsibilities.
Client and Design Team Liaison
- Develop positive trust based relationships with clients and members of the design team.
- Attend meetings with the design team, usually accompanied by their manager and record discussions and actions.
- Review project correspondence issued by the design team.
- Review drawn information issued by the design team.
- Correspond with design team.
Management
- Delegate drawing tasks to CAD Technicians and Trainee CAD Technicians.
Surveys and Reports
- Undertake measured surveys for design projects.
- Carry out surveys of existing buildings and inspections of building defects usually attended with their line manager.
- Prepare written reports and Scott Schedules.
- Review reports prepared by others.
Design and Drawings
- Develop scheme designs through to completion.
- Prepare scheme design drawings
- Prepare detail design drawings including Planning and Building Regulations.
- Check designs prepared by others (e.g. M & E) for dimensional accuracy and check against our design principle.
- Prepare specifications and schedule of works
- Check specification prepared by others against our design.
- Take responsibility for programming of design and drawing tasks.
Site Involvement
- Attend site progress meetings, usually accompanied by manager and record minutes or relevant discussions and actions.
- Inspect and report on construction progress and quality.
- Be observant of site Health and Safety issues.
Quality Assurance
- Fulfill the requirements of the Quality Management System ensuring all procedures are followed.
- Health and Safety
- Prepare design risk assessments and collate information to meet the requirements of the CDM Regulations 2015.
- Encourage safe working methods for self and colleagues within and outside the office.
Training
- Keep technically up to date and maintain Continuous Professional Development records.
- Financial
- Aim to work as efficiently as possible at all times to ensure profitability of each commission.
Sound like something you would like to do? Apply for further information.