Building Surveyor and Graduate Building Surveyor – Calderdale Council
Building Surveyor – Post Ref: CC619
Salary: PO8 to PO11, SCP 34 to 37 – £45,091 to £48,226 per annum 37 hours per week, permanent
Graduate Building Surveyor – Post Ref: CC622
Salary: Career Graded. Scale SO2, PO3 to PO6, PO8 to PO11, SCP 26 to 37, £37,280 – £48,226 per annum 37 hours per week, permanent
Please note: Internal at risk or redeployee applicants will be seen in the first instance.
This is an exciting time for Calderdale; we have just launched our ambitious Vision 2034 (see link below). The council has a strong track record of working with our communities to create strong and thriving towns and places, and we have made good progress with our target of reducing our carbon emissions to achieve net zero emissions by 2038.
Following the promotion of the current postholders, opportunities exist for a Building Surveyor and a Graduate Building Surveyor to join the Council’s Corporate Asset and Facilities Management (CAFM) Service and make a positive impact by continuing to deliver against these goals. You can also enjoy the challenge of working with and maintaining important heritage buildings, where design skills are needed to harmonize the new with the historic.
The Council’s Corporate Asset and Facilities Management (CAFM) Service is responsible for the Council’s large and diverse property portfolio: around 300 buildings including changing rooms, leisure facilities, office buildings and many heritage buildings such as the iconic Halifax Town Hall. The Service’s Facilities Management (FM) Technical Team is responsible for all technical resources (internal and external), required to deliver an effective maintenance and development service for this property portfolio.
This is a specialist team with key expertise, which acts as an intelligent client responsible for determining, specifying, commissioning and managing the full range of specialist works required to maintain such a large, diverse and complex portfolio of properties. It is also responsible for monitoring the Council’s buildings and drawing up programmes of work across the estate, ensuring that all planned, programmed and reactive repair works are delivered with a customer focus, on time and within budget. The team has oversight of the delivery of capital projects and significant building works, as well as an annual revenue budget of circa £2m.
These are exciting roles, that will allow the right candidates to grow and develop through a diverse and interesting workload. The Building Surveyor post is responsible for the full range of building surveying duties including defect inspection, condition surveys, refurbishment schemes from inception to completion including related duties of tendering, procurement and contract administration. The post holder will also work with external specialist consultants preparing project briefs that lead to their appointment and subsequent collaboration.
Project planning is also key including agreeing prioritisation of works with stakeholders within available budgets that meets all statutory requirements; and maximising the performance and longevity of the Council’s assets. This post oversees the delivery of capital projects and significant building works.
The Graduate Building Surveyor post is career graded to allow progression as you develop as a surveyor. Our diverse portfolio and wide-ranging workload will provide the experience required to work through your APC. You will provide support to other members of the team whilst also having a degree of autonomy to deliver your own workload. The team is multi-disciplinary, so you will have opportunity to work alongside architectural and building services colleagues as a cohesive, forward thinking delivery team.
If you think you are who we are looking for we look forward to receiving your application.
Closing Date: Sunday 2 November 2025
Interview dates: Building Surveyor 14th November 2025. Graduate Building Surveyor 17 November 2025
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We may utilise digital interview methods.
As part of our Vision (https://www.calderdale.gov.uk/vision/) we aim to be a talented, resilient and inclusive community. We welcome applications from all and offer a variety of flexible working / job share opportunities.
On 30 January 2019, the Council declared a climate emergency in a bold move to step up its action to tackle climate change.
Calderdale Council embraces the positive benefits of a diverse workforce and we are committed to providing an environment that is inclusive. We encourage applications from people who share our commitment to challenge inequality and promote diversity across Calderdale. We particularly welcome applications from communities that are currently under-represented in our organisation. All applications are anonymised before being seen by the selection panel.