Senior Building Surveyor

Salary: £50,000 per annum

Contract type: Permanent f/t (37.5 hrs pw)

Closing date: 2^nd March 2025

Address: Erddig, NULL, Wrexham, LL13 0YT

Summary

Are you passionate about Heritage Buildings in Wales? Do you feel you want to make a difference in conservation for future generations? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

We’re looking for a Senior Building Surveyor/Architect with knowledge and experience of working with historic properties to become part of our team in Wales. This is a great opportunity to join us.

National Trust Cymru cares for some of the most iconic historic houses and castles across the length and breadth of Wales. As part of our new strategy, we are investing in and conserving Wales’ heritage so we can provide opportunities to enable access for everyone.

This role will be based in North East Wales and there are requirements to be able to travel to our properties across the region.

What it's like to work here

This post will be part of the National Trust Cymru Consultancy team. This in-house team of multidisciplinary experts form a great repository of skills, talents, and experience, enabling our properties and places to benefit from an extraordinary range of creative and innovative thinking. We have deep expertise in all matters relating to caring for the nation’s special heritage and landscapes and making these places accessible to all.

You’ll bring to the team an in-depth conservation building/architectural knowledge, a high level of experience, and the ability to work at pace in complex technical situations.

As this role covers North East Wales, your contractual place of work will be the nearest National Trust consultancy office to your home: Tredegar (Newport), Llandeilo, Erddig, Dinas, or Penrhyn (Bangor). Our hybrid working policy means you can balance office and home working with site visits and meetings at other National Trust places. We’ll talk about this in more detail at interview, but you should expect to be at a National Trust site for 40–60% of your working week.

This role requires travel to various locations in Wales (some with very limited/no public transport available).

What you'll be doing

The role is varied, challenging, and rewarding. You’ll mainly work across three portfolios in North East Wales, working alongside other consultants and property teams, in addition to being supported by the wider building surveyor community in Wales and nationally.

You'll oversee all aspects of conservation and risk management of buildings and structures at our amazing places, acting as a lead consultant. You will develop and deliver a programme of planned improvements, preparing specifications, planning delivery, and tracking progress from inception to delivery.

Your work will be focused on a variety of small, medium, and larger-scale project work (this can be conservation or compliance related). You’ll also provide expert advice and delivery of building work to the highest conservation standards. You may need to act as project manager, utilizing the Trust’s project management framework, and manage external advisers and contractors. You’ll contribute to project planning and lead building conservation condition assessments.

Managing and building strong relationships with stakeholders is critical. Your internal clients are usually National Trust General Managers and Facilities Managers. You’ll be involved with other NT specialists, and statutory and local authority officers. You’ll be able to clearly communicate the essential elements of the work and collaborate on finding the best solutions.

This role may also involve the line management of one or two Building Surveyors.

Who we're looking for

• An experienced Chartered Construction professional (MRICS/CIOB/ARB)
• Experienced with Construction Project Management tools and demonstrate an ability to mitigate risk as proven by strong experience of contract management and contract administration in a supervisory capacity
• Experienced in influencing others in multi-disciplinary teams which will also include specialists from non-construction communities, with an ability to build strong relationships externally and internally and experience of working with external agencies, contractors, and organisations
• Capable, from direct experience, of managing and recognizing quality work from external consultants in the role of a Client Construction lead
• Able to demonstrate experience of financial responsibility for projects with exemplary data management
• Strong knowledge of relevant legislative requirements relating to the role

The package

The National Trust has the motto ‘For everyone, for ever’ at its heart. We’re working hard to create an inclusive culture, where everyone feels they belong. It’s important that our people reflect and represent the diversity of the communities and audiences we serve. We welcome and value difference, so when we say we’re for everyone, we want everyone to be welcome in our teams too.

• Substantial pension scheme of up to 10% basic salary
• Free entry to National Trust places for you, a guest, and your children (under 18)
• Rental deposit loan scheme
• Season ticket loan
• EV car lease scheme
• Perks at work discounts such as gym memberships, shopping discount codes, cinema discounts
• Holiday allowance up to 32 days relating to length of service, plus holiday purchase scheme, subject to meeting minimum criteria.
• Flexible working whenever possible
• Employee assistance programme
• Free parking at most Trust places