Senior Building Surveyor / Project Manager

An excellent opportunity for a Senior Chartered Building Surveyor, with a contract administration/project management focus, to play a key part in the commercial building surveying team providing high calibre professional advice to clients. TFTs enviable client list includes Railpen, Abrdn, Aviva, Legal & General, M&G and The Crown Estate, among others.

Project work will include cladding, fire, building safety and compliance remediation. You will be involved in project management/contract admin and project monitoring.

Professional work will include a range of commercial instructions including TDD for purchaser/vendor dilapidations, schedules of condition and PPM reporting.

While the role is likely to be more project based, there will be a need to be deliver professional work too.

You will be part of a small but very supportive team in Leeds with great opportunities to for career progression.

Key accountabilities

Primarily working within the commercial sector, undertaking project management/contract admin and all round building surveying work including the following:

  1. Project management and contract administration on a range of sectors.
  2. Project Monitoring
  3. Technical Due Diligence
  4. Schedules of condition
  5. Dilapidations
  6. Fire safety and building compliance remediation
  7. General building surveying commercial work.

Performance criteria

  1. MRICS
  2. Excellent report writing skills
  3. Strong general building surveying skills
  4. Autonomous project management/contract administration experience from concept to completion.
  5. Experience of working in a proactive commercial environment
  6. Understands the Building Regulations PD role and is aware of the BSA process.
  7. Able to meet fee targets and generate new business through building successful client relationships
  8. Commercial awareness and understanding
  9. Embraces technology to deliver reports efficiently
  10. High level of up to date technical building knowledge

Skills and behaviour

  1. Ability to work well in a multi-disciplinary team and lead when required
  2. Confident and concise communicator both verbally and in writing
  3. Able to progress work autonomously
  4. Commercially focused and strong experience of working with private sector client base and meeting the demands that requires.
  5. Able to contribute to wider business development

What’s in it for you?

  • Hybrid & flexible working (minimum 3 days a week in the office)
  • Competitive salary and car allowance. Pension after 3 months.
  • Benefits: Fee Plus bonus scheme, mobile phone & laptop, personal accident cover, private health care (after 6 months), life assurance, 25 days holiday, 1 day charity leave per year and 1 company wellbeing day per year.
  • Season ticket loan & cycle scheme completion of probationary period.

We are BCorp Certified!

As TFT’s impact on the world has grown with the size of our business and the scale of our client services, we are determined that our future growth continues to be positive and sustainable. B Corp certification enables us to do just that, by recognising the highest standards of social and environmental performance and aligning our ongoing efforts with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. https://www.tftconsultants.com/tft-is-a-certified-b-corp/

DEI at TFT

  • At TFT we don’t aim to tick boxes and count numbers and percentages, we create an environment where anyone, from any background and life experience, can do their best work. We empower you to bring your full, authentic self to work. We are diverse by nature and inclusive by choice.
  • If you’re driven to perform, you’ll fit right in, we approach work fearlessly, learn quickly and improve constantly. A bright idea can come from anyone. We believe diversity drives innovation.
  • Our approach to diversity, equity and inclusion is simple – we embrace everyone.

About TFT

TFT is the leading independent firm of Development, Built Asset & Engineering and Sustainability consultants. We place the wellbeing of people and the performance of buildings at the heart of everything we do.

We’re proud of our reputation for integrity and delivering work of the highest quality, blended with commercial pragmatism. We offer a strong track record across all commercial property sectors, advising investors, developers, occupiers and owners on maximising best property asset values. Diversity and strength in depth is important to us. Whether it be a technical thought leader with a career’s experience – or a recently qualified rising star – in today’s risk averse world you need people on your side with a reputation for diligence, transparency, intellect and commercial insight. Clients see TFT as large enough to provide the expertise and resources to get the best from their portfolios, and small enough for it to matter personally.

We have over 180 employees operating from a network of offices in Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Dublin, Edinburgh, Guildford, London, Leeds, Manchester and Southampton.

TFT is passionate about people development and will provide you with excellent and progressive career opportunities and sponsored learning.

Apply now