Building Surveyor; Education

Building Surveyor (Education)

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Building Surveyor to join our established Education Building Surveying team. The core responsibilities largely relate to our work with multiple education clients across the UK, including universities, schools, trusts and government. The successful candidate will be expected to be technically excellent and have a broad range of building surveying expertise including capital works delivery and condition surveys.

The job will involve a mixed and varied workload, often requiring balancing multiple instructions simultaneously. The candidate will largely be focused on service delivery, often working as part of a larger commission team and supporting the achievement of exceptional outcomes for our clients. The candidate should be confident in dealing directly with clients.

You will be required to manage your time effectively to meet deadlines and ensure that time expended aligns with the cost forecast, thereby ensuring profitability of instructions (financial performance responsibility).

• The key focus will be around the delivery of capital works on educational assets.
• The position includes a relatively high level of responsibility and accountability with opportunities to develop managerial as well as technical knowledge and skills, and to progress within a successful and growing specialist team.
• You will manage and undertake professional technical consultancy commissions including condition surveys and infrequently dilapidations.
• You will effectively communicate to ensure all information is available for the successful implementation and completion of projects.
• Liaise with the Project Managers and Team Leaders to ensure efficient financial control resulting in a cost‑effective service.
• You will ensure the Sector Director has quantified information on the progress of each contract on a regular basis.
• Support with mentoring and supervising our junior building surveyors.

• Degree in Building Surveying.
• Ideally MRICS qualified or working towards this.
• Excellent technical ability.
• Multi‑discipline experience.
• A broad thinker who can take a global view and has an inherent ability to deliver successfully.
• Ability to manage project risk.
• Ability to be flexible to meet tight project deadlines.
• Manage quality standards to ensure high quality output.
• Understand challenges faced by education clients.
• Understanding of both technical and legislative requirements along with good commercial awareness.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship‑building skills enabling strong working relationships with clients.

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of how we improve the quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Work streams:
Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

Not Applicable

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