Area Surveyor

Your role at a glance
We’re Legal & General Surveying Services (LGSS), one of the most successful Surveying Firms in the UK. We've been in business for over 20 years and are wholly owned subsidiary of Legal & General. The Legal & General Surveying Services team helps our clients, both corporate and private, throughout the surveying process. Having developed into a major Panel Management Company, our customers trust us to be there and to do the right thing.

Due to continuous growth, we have a fantastic opportunity for an Area Surveyor to join the Surveying team, covering the South West London area, and we'd love to hear from enthusiastic RICS registered Residential Surveyors looking for their next role.

This is a unique opportunity for you to work in a small agile team, with the benefit of being backed by a people focused global brand. We are digitally minded and strive to stay at the forefront of innovation and technology in the residential surveying industry. You'll be working in an entrepreneurial environment that encourages your collaboration and development, so you'll have every opportunity to make a difference as we continue to grow.

You will be rewarded with a competitive basic salary, uncapped commission scheme, prestige company car and extensive opportunities for professional and personal career development.

As a business, we ensure that our surveyors work a manageable geographic area, to limit the travel and achieve a better work life balance.

What you'll be doing
- You’ll carry out quality inspections and prepare valuations and survey reports in accordance with best professional practice to minimise the financial and reputational risk to Legal & General. You’ll be liaising with all support staff to ensure that inspections are carried out and reports prepared in accordance with agreed turnaround times and SLA’s ensuring the overall standard is achieved
- Ensuring that all communications with any party to the instruction are dealt with promptly and in a manner, which will enhance the reputation of Legal & General. You’ll be ensuring that the PVQ response times are achieved and that queries, are dealt with in accordance with Lender Guidelines and in keeping with SLA’s in line with contractual requirements.
- Achieving personal annual business targets in terms of the volume of instructions carried out in order to meet planned profitability and Annual Fee Income projection by completing achievable daily targets per working day.
- Undertaking training, both internally and externally, to satisfy the CPD requirements of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and any further specific retraining prescribed by the company by completing the compulsory number of training hours per annum

What we're looking for
- You will need to be a RICS registered Residential Surveyor
- You'll need previous experience working as a Residential Surveyor, with an excellent knowledge of this field
- Previous experience and a strong capability of using industry recognised software
- You'll be able to demonstrate a good knowledge of Lender technical and administration procedures

**Benefits**:
When you commit to Legal & General, we’ll commit to you too. That means we’ll recognise and reward your hard work, your performance and your contribution.

If you join us, you’ll get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, 27 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme, life assurance, and Income Protection. You can participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice. We’re also proud to offer competitive family leave.

You’ll have the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes. And then there are the many discounts we offer that you can take advantage of - both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online offerings.

About L&G
The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.

Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands.

We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.

We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.

At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.

Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunitie