Assistant Building Surveyor

**About The Role**:
**About this opportunity**

Due to winning prestigious projects we are looking to source an Assistant Building Surveyor to be based in either our Glasgow or Edinburgh offices with hybrid working. We are involved in a variety of exciting projects in both the Public and Private sectors and have a continuous pipeline of projects for the future. Some of our Clients include Diageo, Hilton, Scotrail, Land Sec, British Land and Marks and Spencer to name a few.

You will assist the Building Surveying team to deliver building surveying commissions, including surveys, dilapidation advice, party wall advice, and construction projects for new builds, renovations and maintenance works - from feasibility through to design, contract administration to handover and post completion reviews.
**Responsibilities include but are not limited to**:

- Assisting Building Surveyors with the preparation of:

- Feasibility studies
- Prepare cost plans
- Designs and detailed specifications
- Submissions for planning and building regulation approvals
- Tender documentation and managing the tender process, including designing tender marking schemes
- Assisting building surveyors with:

- Evaluating and reporting on tenders
- Administration of construction contracts
- Undertaking surveys including condition surveys, DDA, Fire Risk Assessments, Schedules of Condition and Acquisition Surveys
- Preparing reports for customers
- Undertaking party wall surveyor duties
- Providing dilapidations advice and delivering dilapidations assessments and negotiating with other parties
- Undertaking quality monitoring roles of major construction projects
- Successfully complete the Gleeds internal APC preparation programme; and self-development training in readiness for attaining Chartered status (RICS)
- Ensuring that all quantitative and financial information has been independently checked before issue, including maintaining evidence of independent checks

**As a Gleeds team member, you will have access to**:

- Opportunities to develop and grow your career
- A contributory pension scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Our Global Travel Scholarship Programme
- Flexible working arrangements

**About You**:
**Who we’re looking for**:
**Experience, Knowledge and Key Skills**
- Further post-graduate experience in a building surveying role
- Good knowledge of construction methods and materials
- Good knowledge of construction procurement strategies, including tendering and contract strategies
- Clear and effective communication skills - both oral and written
- Good organisational skills and the ability to quickly adapt to changes
- Sound problem solving, negotiating skills, financial and numeracy management skills
- Sound ICT Skills, with a high level of proficiency in MS Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Ability to work as part of a team

**Qualifications**
- RICS exempting degree or post graduate diploma

**About Us**:
**Be part of the extraordinary**

Every day at Gleeds, we influence the way people around the world live, work and travel. Delivering on the world’s most iconic projects for globally renowned clients, our teams solve complex problems that shape the future of the built environment.

One of the qualities we value in people, is the ability to think creatively about the solutions we offer to clients. With 71 offices spanning the Americas, Europe, MENA and Asia Pacific our ability to innovate and improve is a product of the varied backgrounds and experience of our people. We welcome new perspectives and ideas.

Above all, we believe that quality relationships sit at the heart of good business. We strive to be the people that seek to understand and bring people together. Wherever we are in the world, our aspiration is to leave a positive legacy for people and local communities, whilst living and breathing our three core values:

- We’re committed to our clients and our people
- We’re creative and realistic
- We combine professionalism with personality

**We recognise the importance of work/life balance and agree flexible working arrangements to suit each individual.**

**Gleeds is a gold standard investor in people employer.