Regional Building Surveyor: British Heart Foundation

Are you a highly motivated Building Surveyor, with a successful track record in managing repair, refurbishment, and fit-out projects within an extensive property portfolio?
Location: Home-based
Salary: £45,000 – £50,000 + £3,600 car allowance p/a + benefits
Contract: Full Time, Permanent
URGENT: Closing date for applications is 13th April 2025.
About the role
As our Regional Building Surveyor, you’ll manage our Retail Division’s property portfolio in the Central England and North Wales region, spanning 220+ leasehold shops and stores.
Your region will cover from Essex & Greater London, across the East Midlands and central England to North Wales and will include Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Yorkshire. Additionally, you’ll support stores nationwide to meet emergent requirements.
You’ll deliver a full range of building surveying services, both reactive and planned maintenance, including:
- Leading diverse projects, from essential repairs to rejuvenating refurbishments and exciting fit-outs
- Managing contract and tender documentation
- Fulfilling CDM duties, including being principal designer
- Conducting planned preventative maintenance inspections
- Overseeing building maintenance
- Performing acquisition and disposal surveys
- Offering dilapidations advice
- Building strong relationships with stakeholders
About You
To be successful in this role, you will:
- Possess a professional building/construction management qualification (MRICS, MCIOB) or significant demonstrable experience in retail building surveying
- Have sound technical knowledge of all legislation relating to the fit-out and occupation of leasehold retail premises (Building Regulations, Planning, CDM, Fire Safety Order, Health & Safety, and Asbestos)
- Be a highly effective team player with strong interpersonal, influencing, and decision-making skills.
- Have extensive experience in all key aspects of traditional building surveying disciplines, including:
– acquisition and disposals surveys
– health and safety
– defects analysis
– maintenance inspections and management of remedial works
– coordinating with stakeholders, including contractors and consultants
– access audits
– building pathology
– dilapidation’s
– fit-out design
– contract administration
It would be advantageous if you have specific experience in developing and maintaining a large retail estate.
Working arrangements
This is a home-based role with travel throughout Central England & North Wales, primarily your regional patch (as explained above), though periodically extending across the country. You will be required to live within the region.
Travel will be based on current project work and the need to visit various sites in project. You will be able to manage your diary accordingly to enable this. There will be overnight stays as required (on average, this would typically be 4-5 nights a month).
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The closing date for applications is 13th April 2025.
We value and respect every individual’s unique contribution, celebrate diversity, and make inclusion part of what we do every day.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Strategy, Igniting Change, along with our internal EDI group, Kaleidoscope, and a growing number of employee network groups (our Affinity Groups), help us create an environment where all our colleagues and volunteers can succeed.