Graduate Building Surveyor

Post Graduate responsibilities for assisting in all Building Surveying projects.

• Assist Building Surveyors in the delivery of building surveying services, including surveys, dilapidation advice, party wall advice, and construction projects for new builds, renovations and maintenance works – from feasibility through to design, contract administration to handover and post completion reviews.
• Assisting Building Surveyors with the preparation of:

• Feasibility studies
• Cost plans
• Submissions for planning and building regulation approvals
• Submissions for planning and building regulation approvals
• Tender documentation and managing the tender process, including designing tender marking schemes.

• Assisting building surveyors with:

• Evaluating and reporting on tenders
• Administration of construction contracts

• Undertaking surveys including condition surveys, DDA, Fire Risk Assessments, Schedules of Condition and Acquisition Surveys.
• Preparing reports for customers
• Undertaking party wall surveyor duties
• Providing dilapidations advice and delivering dilapidations assessments and negotiating with other parties
• Undertaking quality monitoring roles of major construction projects.
• Successfully complete the Gleeds internal APC preparation programme; and self-development training in readiness for attaining Chartered status (RICS)
• Ensuring that all quantitative and financial information has been independently checked before issue, including maintaining evidence of independent checks

• Opportunities to develop and grow your career
• A contributory pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Our Global Travel Scholarship Programme
• Flexible working arrangements

As a Graduate, you will develop knowledge and experience in the following:

• Building surveying practices and procedures
• Contract administration procedures
• Compliance audits and surveys
• Managing contractor activities pre and post-construction
• Tendering
• Party wall matters
• Dilapidations
• Design procedures and controls
• Construction quality and monitoring
• Clear and effective communication skills – both oral and written
• Good organisational skills and the ability to quickly adapt to changes
• Sound problem solving, negotiating skills, financial and numeracy management skills
• Sound ICT Skills, with a high level of proficiency in MS Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to work as part of a team

• RICS exempting or non-exempting degree.