Associate Asset Consultant

This unique opportunity is suited to an ambitious Building Surveyor with the drive to create meaningful change and inspire growth across Buro Happold.

This role has the potential to accelerate your career trajectory within a vibrant multi-disciplinary organisation and provides the opportunity to develop your own customer base and expand your work profile whilst shaping a new team around you.

**With us, your preconceptions will be tested, your resilience built, and your career enriched.**

Are you a natural problem solver who enjoys collaborating directly with clients to bring pragmatic, resilient, and environmentally sensitive solutions to the built environment?

This is a pivotal role that will see you acting as an Associate Asset Management Consultant in the Asset Consultancy team.

As part of a multidisciplinary team, you will contribute to the overall provision of strategic property advice for both individual buildings and complete premises portfolios, across the cultural, commercial, entertainment, financial, utilities, technology and education sectors.

This role would suit an experienced property professional with strong consulting skills and a genuine interest in solving complex problems. Above all, we're looking for someone that's passionate about enhancing the performance and usability of existing buildings to create a more sustainable world.

**What is Asset Consultancy?**

Our Asset Consulting team is a multi-disciplinary group and part of the wider Specialist Engineering community within Buro Happold. Working directly with investors, operators, and end user clients the team provide strategic technical advice focussing on the operation, design life, flexibility and maintainability of assets during the anticipated life of a building. Known for their pragmatic, hands-on approach, they work closely with our clients to diagnose and solve problems, optimise building performance, reduce running and operational costs and plan for organisational change. With previous involvement in high-profile estates such as the British Museum, Cambridge University and Birmingham Airport, our Asset Consultancy team have established themselves as true specialists in their field.

**What will I be doing?**

Associates within the practice are responsible for taking a lead on technical problem solving and whole projects across many sectors including sport and culture, aviation, commercial, scientific and education. Recent projects have included major airports, national football stadia, university campuses and corporate headquarter buildings as well as an ongoing portfolio of work in the local region.

Input to the projects is likely to be varied but will include the requirement to:

- Provide professional property advice to clients and end-users including, but not limited to, building performance, forward maintenance planning, capital expenditure programming, dilapidations, creative reuse and project management activities,
- Act as Job Leader,
- Lead development of strategic, technically based reports and plans to present directly to clients and end-users,
- Take ownership for client relationships with end-users, developers, contractors, etc.
- Organise resources and ensure that services and projects are carried out to an agreed programme and within budget,
- Prepare financial proposals for new work,
- Set up and manage job/project administrative systems, including planning job resourcing/expenditure,
- Ensure all relevant Buro Happold staff are informed of client matters,
- Contribute to Buro Happold wide initiatives with respect to technical development / market sectors and processes.
- Commitment to CPD and self-learning/development,
- Actively seek new opportunities for the Group internally and externally; actively cross-sell other Buro Happold disciplines externally.

**More about you**

As an experienced property professional, it is expected that you will be able to demonstrate:

- Chartered status with a relevant industry body (such as the RICS, CIBSE or similar) with experience in facilities management/property consultancy.
- Ability to accept a high degree of responsibility in a team-based organisation, combined with the ability to work independently.
- Experience in the preparation of professional reports for delivery direct to a client audience,
- Project management and coordination of multi-disciplinary teams,
- Strong financial and account management skills,
- The applicant will need to be an excellent communicator (verbal, written and listening) with experience of presenting (you will often be required to present solutions directly to clients)
- Bachelors degree (BEng) / BSc or Masters degree (MEng) / MSc in relevant discipline.
- Mobility to travel at short notice.

**Why Buro Happold?**

From helping shape entire cities to adapting infrastructure to deal with the climate emergency, a career at Buro Happold presents the chance to make a difference. With a world class reputation, our creativity and our peo