Director, Building Surveying

1 month ago


Glasgow Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom Currie & Brown Full time

Currie & Brown is one of the leading International physical asset management and construction consultancies, dedicated to advising clients worldwide with our expertise and experience in multiple sectors and services. We are differentiated by our people, innovation and reputation with a genuine global office network.

Our people, from the first-day apprentice to senior management make our business what it is today. Everybody in the Currie & Brown family, no matter how experienced they are, plays their own unique part in our success and have fun along the way.


The role

Currie & Brown is looking for an experienced director of building surveying to join our building surveying and specialist services leadership team in Scotland. The successful candidate will be central in leading our busy team of building surveyors, CDM advisors, quality control and PFI advisors covering all aspects of professional and project-related services across the private and public sector.


The successful candidate will support team leaders in generating a high standard of service delivery, achieving successful outcomes for our clients, capturing and sharing knowledge across projects, enhancing our culture of innovation and reinforcing our reputation as a preferred service provider. Working in this role will involve assisting in the management of client and project teams to deliver building surveying and specialist services profitably and on time to a wide range of clients. The role will cover the full spectrum of building surveying and specialist services, including design and specification, clerk of works, contract administration, building surveys, dilapidations, principal designer and specialist PFI advice.


Our building surveying and specialist services team has a broad-based background, is a highly motivated group with varying levels and types of experience and is the ideal place for you to commence and progress your career in the profession with many opportunities to learn from the team and our commissions.

As a director of building surveying and specialist services your core duties will involve:


  • Leading, managing and mentoring an expanding team
  • Developing and expanding the existing client base across key sectors
  • Managing and supporting the team engaged on existing commissions
  • Developing and improving the performance of the team; formulating and implementing a local growth plan in consultation with senior director/s
  • Managing the recruitment, supervision and development of staff within the allotted teams and liaising with line managers
  • Proactively marketing Currie & Brown locally and nationally in existing and potential markets; developing new business and clients in line with strategic objectives
  • Participating in bid winning, including drafting proposals and attending key industry events
  • Implementing and monitoring relevant administration systems as well as standards for customer care
  • Managing the administration of the teams, ensuring that facilities and working practices follow company guidelines
  • Undertaking responsibility for compliance with the company’s health and safety policy and other relevant policies



What skills and attributes are we looking for from you:

  • BSc in building surveying or equivalent
  • Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) preferred
  • A minimum of 15 years’ technical delivery experience gained within a construction consultancy
  • IT skills (AutoCAD, NBS, MS Project Outlook, Word, Excel & other bespoke)
  • Significant experience and evidence of performing in a similar role
  • Knowledge of local and national marketplace
  • Good technical writing, client-facing and communication skills
  • Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, and willing to work in a mutually supportive environment
  • An ability to win work and deliver business growth
  • A team player with a ‘can do’ attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful and flexible

Why choose Currie & Brown?

Unlike some businesses, we prioritise for the long term and honour our commitments. We are compassionate and inclusive in the way we approach our work, and always look to invest in our people’s futures. Be it a desire to work internationally, a drive to progress, or even a curiosity to operate in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage – providing advice, support and the structure to achieve. That is why so many of us have established and built successful careers here for so long.

We don’t offer just a job we offer a career with clear structured route to progression, and a track record of making international mobility happen with international moves encouraged on a permanent or secondment basis.

We are an international industry leader – Working for us provides the chance to work for a leading brand with a focus on excellence, being digitally-led in our approach, we present the chance to work on some of the world’s most prestigious projects and for some of the world’s top clients.

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work everyday and that is why we firmly believe equality, diversity and inclusion should be fundamental in creating a successful work force.

We offer comprehensive benefits packages in all our global regions which have been specifically tailored to offer additional rewards to our employees from entry level to senior executives.



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