Building Surveyor

Chartered Building Surveyor — Building Consultancy (London)

The opportunity has arisen for a Chartered Building Surveyor to join the London Building Consultancy Team of BNP Paribas Real Estate. Due to a steady increase in opportunities and workload, we are seeking to strengthen our team with a Chartered Surveyor who has recently qualified and is ready to progress their career to the next level.

The team is well established and highly respected in the market, with an enviable client base and a broad portfolio of instructions. You can expect to be busy from day one, working within an experienced team and predominantly undertaking professional services for our investor and occupier clients. The role offers real variety, career development, and continual training embedded in the team philosophy. The work spans a range of property sectors and will cover the South East, with the potential to become involved in a wider range of services nationally and, in time, internationally.

Key Responsibilities

You will be involved in a range of work, including:

• Supporting instructions from inception through to completion, reporting to directors of the business
• Working as part of a local and national team to deliver instructions
• Managing your own workload on a day-to-day and longer-term basis
• Undertaking technical due diligence instructions with senior members of the team, working with internal and external specialist consultants
• Carrying out design and contract administration duties, principally for refurbishment, repair, and maintenance projects
• Undertaking dilapidations instructions acting for both landlords and tenants, including assessments, schedule preparation, and negotiation
• Supporting the appraisal and monitoring of new developments for owners, occupiers, and funders
• Undertaking reinstatement cost assessments
• Preparing planned preventative maintenance schedules
• Reviewing and approving tenants’ licences for alterations
• Providing technical building pathology advice
• Advising on neighbourly matters

You will also support business development activities by building and maintaining client relationships, often at a senior level, and contributing to new business opportunities within the department.

How You Will Work

• Work within clearly defined, well-established processes
• Proactively solve problems and find solutions, consulting more experienced colleagues on more difficult or unfamiliar situations
• Produce high-quality written work
• Work within BNP Paribas Real Estate’s quality management processes and procedures

Required Skills and Competencies

• Degree in Building Surveying
• MRICS qualified
• Full, clean driving licence

Additional (Advantageous) Skills

• An interest in sustainability and wellbeing
• AutoCAD skills
• Microsoft Project skills
• Microsoft Office suite skills

Personal Attributes

You will possess strong interpersonal skills, be sociable, and proactively work within a busy, friendly, and highly professional team. You will support and work with colleagues at all levels, with strong IT, time management, and communication skills, and demonstrate accuracy and attention to detail.

Location and Working Pattern

The role is based in our head office at 7 Harewood Avenue, next to Marylebone Station, which offers an on-site restaurant and gym facilities. The team works in a flexible, hybrid manner.

Benefits

BNP Paribas Real Estate offers award-winning benefits to support and reward employees.

Health & Leisure

• Private medical cover
• 25 days annual leave plus public holidays (option of purchasing up to 5 additional days via flex benefits)
• Health screening
• Gym discounts
• Wellbeing support
• Volunteering opportunities
• Cycle to work scheme
• Eye care voucher
• Travel and retail discounts
• Travel insurance
• Concierge service
• Kids pass
• Open Fairways golf card
• Company culture and social events (including sports teams, charity events, art pass)
• Perks at work

Financial

• Pension
• Company car allowance
• Life assurance at 8x basic salary
• Group income protection
• Long-term disability insurance
• Interest-free season ticket loan
• Bonus scheme (eligible to participate in the Company’s Bonus Scheme)
• Share incentive plan
• Financial and mortgage advice