BUILDING SURVEYOR LEAD

Job Title : BUILDING SURVEYOR LEAD 🏢

📋 Position Overview

🎯 Key Responsibilities

• Senior Survey Leadership: Direct, plan, and execute comprehensive building surveys, structural condition assessments, and diagnostic inspections for large-scale industrial and commercial facilities. 🔍
• Defect Analysis & Forensic Investigation: Investigate complex structural failures, dampness, subsidence, material degradation, and weathering phenomena, providing authoritative expert reports and remediation strategies. 🛠️
• Regulatory & Compliance Audits: Ensure all properties and ongoing developments adhere strictly to UK building regulations, Scottish planning laws, fire safety legislations, and environmental standards. 📜
• Project & Dilapidation Management: Oversee schedule of dilapidations, party wall matters, boundary disputes, and planned preventative maintenance (PPM) programs. 📋
• Technical Specification & Cost Estimation: Author detailed technical specifications, tender documentation, and cost estimates for restorative building works and structural upgrades. 💷
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with structural engineers, project managers, and civil design teams to integrate survey findings into master blueprints and reinforcement plans. 🤝
• Team Mentorship: Lead, mentor, and upskill junior surveyors and technical field staff, fostering a culture of rigorous engineering precision and safety. 👥

🛠️ Required Qualifications & Experience

• Professional Experience: Minimum of 10 years of progressive building surveying experience, with a heavy emphasis on industrial, commercial, or heavy construction sectors. ⏱️
• Educational & Professional Credentials: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Building Surveying, Civil Engineering, or Construction Management. Professional chartership (e.g., MRICS / FRICS or equivalent chartered building surveyor status) is required. 🎓
• Software Proficiency: Advanced command of industry-standard surveying and engineering software, including AutoCAD and Revit (for architectural and structural drawing reviews), STAAD.Pro or Tekla Structures (for evaluating load paths and structural framing), alongside laser scanning point-cloud software and CAD BIM tools. 💻
• Technical Knowledge: Deep expertise in construction technology, pathology of building defects, heritage conservation regulations (particularly relevant to historic Scottish architecture), and contractual frameworks (e.g., JCT contracts). 🏗️
• Language Skills: Professional proficiency in English (written and verbal). 🗣️

🌟 Soft Skills

• Strategic Leadership: Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary technical teams, manage high-stakes client relationships, and drive department-wide initiatives. 🌟
• Analytical & Critical Thinking: Exceptional diagnostic aptitude to untangle complex structural histories and pinpoint root causes of building defects. 💡
• Negotiation & Dispute Resolution: Strong mediation and negotiation skills for handling party wall agreements, client expectations, and contractor disputes. 🤝
• Communication & Reporting: Impeccable technical writing and verbal presentation skills, capable of distilling complex engineering data into clear executive summaries. 📝

🏢 About KILONEWTONS

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