Commercial Property Surveyor

Job Description

**Job Title**:Commercial Property Surveyor
‍**Report Line**: Head of Estates
‍**Department**: Wildstone
‍**Location**: Northleach, Gloucestershire

Role Summary:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic colleague to join as a Commercial Property Surveyor.

Reporting to the Head of Estates and working alongside colleagues, you will be responsible for our portfolio of over 3000 panels UK wide which will include rent reviews, lease renewals, statutory notices, acquisition, disposals, and some planning. The role focuses on the high-end cases of property management within the company.

**Tasks & Activities**:

- Property Management - Manage the UK portfolio to include:

- Visibility -Proactively assessing risk across the portfolio, likelihood of happening & when and co-ordinate solutions (e.g., tree trimming, site disposal, “licence” payment to neighbour).
- Landownership / management, being able to deal with disputes e.g., trespass, boundary disputes, utility issues.
- Access -investigate issues and co-ordinate solutions (e.g., wayleave, easement, platform, concrete base, negotiation with neighbours and/or legal enforcement).
- Coordinating with the team portfolio Inspections - inspect sites in accordance with agreed guidelines and intervals and/or or co-ordinate the site inspections by others. Proactively address issues before they become threats (e.g., site maintenance, planning, fencing etc) and review inspection brief regularly to ensure the process is fit for purpose.
- Work alongside our development and build team to review Pre-Build reviews, to include site visits where necessary and identify any external factors that may cause concern.
- Contractor Health and safety Risk assessment reviews, make sure that they are in line with our company guidelines and carry out a site inspection to comply with our regular checks. Monitor and report on monthly on maintenance spend, working with the team to achieve best practice in line with the guidelines.
- Landlord Agreement Renewals - Working with the Property Contracts Manager to identify sites for renewal and make sure they are dealt with in good time.
- Regularly reviewing landlord agreements working within the parameters of the renewal process, highlighting any concerns with the property and contracts manager.
- Landlord Review - ensure landlord reviews are conducted in a timely manner.
- Role also includes:

- Estate Team Support - As and when required for the estates team and the wider property portfolio for business continuity and income protection.
- Wildsites database - ensuring records in your portfolio are up to date including logging details of all significant communication with contacts, amending contact details, photos, poster agreements and other relevant documents.
- Site Files -ensuring site files records for your portfolio are complete, accurate, consistently labelled and up to date.
- Actions - maintaining list of current actions and reporting material developments to the HOE on a once-a-month basis and ad hoc as necessary.
- General support - performing other job-related duties and responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time.
- Site visits as and when required countrywide, England, Scotland and Wales

Experience & Skills required:

- ** Essential Qualifications**
- Educated to appropriate degree level.
- Chartered member of RICS or working towards accreditation.
- Member of appropriate professional body.
- ** Essential Experience**
- Surveyor with a minimum of five years’ experience working in Estate Management.
- Proven experience of dealing with property matters including rent reviews, lease renewals section 25 and other statutory notices etc.
- Ability to manage the delivery of numerous projects on time and within budget.
- Possess and demonstrate excellent negotiation skills for complex and high value transactions.
- Have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Self-motivated with the ability to work with minimum supervision.
- Possess full current driving license.

Key Stakeholders:

- Estates Team.
- Development Team.
- Finance Team.
- Legal Team.
- Customers / Landlords.

**Benefits**:

- Salary: competitive and depending on experience + car allowance
- 25 days Annual Leave (Increasing with service to a maximum of 30 days).
- Salary sacrifice Pension scheme - Totaling 8% contributory.
- Life Insurance (3*salary)
- Income Protection (50%)
- Company Bonus Scheme
- Health insurance, can join after the successful completion of 6 months probationary period.
- Please note, we will never ask you to prove your identity or send your bank details to us during the recruitment process, until you are offered a job with us. To protect yourself from online fraud and identity theft, please be careful who you send your ID documents to. _This job description is not exhaustive; roles will evolve and change over time as the business grows and develops, within reason of the original remit._