Regional Building Surveyor - Central England & North Wales

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?

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:

1. leading diverse projects, from essential repairs to rejuvenating refurbishments and exciting fit-outs
2. managing contract and tender documentation
3. fulfilling CDM duties, including being Principal Designer
4. conducting Planned Preventative Maintenance inspections
5. overseeing building maintenance
6. performing acquisition and disposal surveys
7. offering dilapidations advice
8. building strong relationships with stakeholders

About you

To be successful in this role, you'll:

1. possess a professional building/construction management qualification (MRICS, MCIOB) or significant demonstrable experience in retail building surveying
2. 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)
3. be a highly effective team player with strong interpersonal, influencing, and decision-making skills.
4. 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
   • dilapidations
   • 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 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).

What can we offer you?

To find out more about the benefits available at the BHF please download our benefits document at the bottom of our advert page.

About us

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.

Interview process

The interview process will be two stages. 1st stage interviews will be a one-way video interview. 2nd stage interviews will be a panel interview via MS Teams.