Principal Surveyor

**Build your career with us ** we are recruiting for an experienced and ambitious Principal Surveyor.

**About NHBC**

At NHBC we are proud to be unique. No other organisation in our sector combines the variety of services and scale that we offer. As the market leader, our name is synonymous with new home warranty and insurance. Our people are driven by our core purpose to build confidence in the construction quality of new homes.

**Why you should join us**

We are a modern, lifestyle and family friendly employer who are in a period of rapid growth, investing in technology, data, and new ways of working. We need passionate, talented, and driven people to join us on this journey.

We encourage our colleagues to work flexibly in different ways, including home, field-based, and hybrid working. We don’t promise we can offer you exactly what you want, but we are always happy to talk about flexible working.

**Core benefits include**:

- 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) and a holiday purchase scheme
- generous pension contributions up to 10.5%
- private medical insurance 50% funded single cover
- equalised maternity, paternity, adoption leave and pay for all new parents
- 24/7 employee assistance programme supporting your physical and mental wellbeing
- 2 days volunteer leave
- 10% Bonus

**What you’ll be doing**

In this role, you will be responsible for assisting the Technical Operations Manager to manage a professional and qualified team of staff to ensure our key customers are provided with support and specialist technical knowledge and understanding of NHBC Standards and Building Regulations. You will be working with a range of multi-disciplinary team professionals qualified in the areas of Engineering, Project management, and Surveying and in a position to assist and deputise as and when required.

With your experience, you will take responsibility for a range of large to small residential developments and associated non-residential building types typically being over 11 meters in height. Meticulous coordination of building control inspections, issuing Final Certificates, site and type approvals, and resolving problems relating to Initial notice/Final certification would be familiar.

Using best practice and your building surveying experience you will be responsible for surveying and assessing buildings and proposals for suitability for Buildmark Conversions cover, including provisions of advice to meet the regulation standards and manage the preparation of reports and offers/ refusal of insurance cover with effective communication across the business.

This role requires strong negotiating skills to work with our existing builders, new customers, and their professional advisors, from initial design to the completion phase to ensure proposals are satisfactory in relation to building control and warranty in accordance with the relevant NHBC regulation and standards. You will have strong communication and leadership skills to support inspection staff with provisions of expert advice, inspections of high-risk/ complex elements or features of building work with the ability to challenge and identify key stages of work in the process of review with the ability to build professional relationships with our customers and builders.

**What we are looking for**:

- Extensive experience in the construction industry with relevant experience in Building Control.
- Extensive experience of plan appraisal of residential developments and associated non-residential uses.
- Proven ability to make pragmatic and value decisions on compliance with Building Regulations and NHBC Standards.
- IT literate with the ability to use a range of software programs.
- Experience in training and mentoring
- Demonstrable leadership skills
- Good communication skills both verbal and written with appropriate interpersonal and presentational skills.
- Able to work with a minimum of supervision in line with established policies and procedures.
- Positive attitude
- Contributor and team player
- Positive attitude

**Education and Qualifications**

You should hold chartered membership of a professional body such as RICS or similar professional qualification relating to Building Surveying. A relevant accredited degree in Surveying would be an advantage.

**Hiring Process**

**Your future with us**

We have lots of fantastic examples across our business of people who are building their career with us. We are huge advocates of internal mobility and work hard to retain our best talent. We offer exceptional personal development and career progression opportunities. If you’re ambitious, driven and hard-working you will succeed with us. We’ll support you with full training, ongoing CPD and the opportunity to gain recognised qualifications and professional memberships.

**Our inclusive culture**

We are committed to creating an inclusive culture that encourages everyone to bring their true selves to work. We fundamentally believe in the ri