Job Description

Senior Building Surveyor

Department: Project Management & Building Surveyor

Employment Type: Permanent - Part Time

Location: London

Compensation: £70,000 - £85,000 / year

Description

Responsible to: Project Director

Working pattern: We’re open to candidates seeking a part-time arrangement of three or more days per week with Mondays in the London office.

Main Purpose:

Take ownership of a high-quality UK portfolio, delivering refurbishment and development projects from scope to completion driving asset value and performance.

This is a role with real breadth, visibility, and impact.

You’ll be stepping into a genuinely exciting pipeline of work, including substantial CAT A refurbishments with a contract sum of up to £10M,alongside another premium asset undergoing significant investment offering exposure to large-scale, high-profile schemes from day one.

Alongside this, you can expect to deliver a diverse mix of projects, including:

• Fareham – CAT A & CAT B refurbishment to reposition space and secure a new lease (c.£3M)
• Breakspear – targeted roof works (c.£300k)
• Brindleyplace, Birmingham – striking new glass box entrance, full reception transformation, and café offering (c.£750k)
• Chelmsford – complex cladding remediation addressing fire integrity and water ingress (c.£1M)

What sets this role apart? Exposure. As a fully vertically integrated business, you’ll see the full asset lifecycle not just isolated projects. Our Building Surveying team consistently highlight how commercially meaningful and genuinely interesting the work is.

Combined with a strong growth trajectory across the business, this is an environment where you can take ownership, build expertise quickly, and work on projects that genuinely move the dial.

About You:

You’ll bring strong technical expertise and commercial judgement, with the confidence to challenge contractors and consultants to achieve the best outcomes. You take ownership, think proactively, and are motivated by delivering high-quality work that makes a tangible impact.

Main Duties

• Lead the planning and delivery of refurbishment, repair and development projects across the portfolio, taking ownership from inception through to completion and handover.
• Manage project programmes, budgets and cashflows, ensuring delivery aligns with business plans and agreed timelines.
• Maintain strong contract administration, controlling instructions, variations, approvals, notices, certificates and project records.
• Prepare and manage design, tender and contract documentation, overseeing procurement and contractor appointment.
• Ensure all contract documents, insurances and statutory requirements are in place prior to works commencing, including planning, Building Control, CDM and Party Wall matters.
• Maintain clear project controls, including change management, risk tracking, progress reporting and completion records.
• Provide technical and commercial advice on refurbishment, defects, project strategy and asset decision-making.
• Conduct inspections, diagnose defects and support pre-acquisition due diligence through review of surveys and technical reports.
• Appoint, manage and lead consultants, contractors and design teams, setting clear expectations and holding them to account.
• Manage statutory processes, including planning, Building Control, CDM compliance and Principal Designer duties where required.
• Oversee Party Wall matters, including surveys, notices and awards.
• Support tenant-related matters including alterations, repairs, dilapidations and maintenance.
• Negotiate and manage dilapidations claims and settlements.
• Work closely with Facilities Management to ensure maintenance spend is controlled and value-led.
• Support Asset Managers with technical input, project delivery and asset-level decision making.
• Ensure construction documentation is completed and maintained to a high standard for data rooms and audits.
• Communicate project risks, budget changes and programme updates clearly and concisely.

Requirements, skills and competencies

• Strong building surveying experience within commercial property.
• MRICS or equivalent qualification desirable.
• Proven experience in project delivery, contract administration and cost control.
• Strong knowledge of construction, refurbishment and defect diagnosis.
• Clear understanding of statutory requirements including CDM, Building Control, planning and Party Wall.
• Confident managing consultants, contractors and external advisers.
• Strong documentation and record-keeping discipline.
• Able to provide clear technical advice to internal stakeholders.
• Capable of managing multiple projects without losing control of detail, cost or programme.

Personal qualities and standards

• Takes ownership of project outcomes and delivery.
• Maintains strong control of cost, programme and contractual detail.
• Acts with pace, professionalism and commercial judgement.
• Communicates clearly, confidently and directly.
• Challenges poor performance and avoids unnecessary cost.
• Holds contractors and consultants to account.
• Protects asset value and supports income recovery.
• Maintains accurate, audit-ready records.
• Balances quality, speed and cost effectively.
• Operates with confidence, accountability and high standards.

Benefits:

• Highly competitive salary DOE
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
• Office closure over festive season
• Additional holiday with service
• Private Medical Insurance (medical history disregarded)
• Healthcare Cash Plan
• 5% Company pension contribution
• 3x Life Assurance
• Cycle to work scheme (on-site shower room facilities & bike parking in majority of head offices)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Group income protection scheme
• Daily healthy fruit & snacks
• Comprehensive business expense policy (including lunches when travelling away from base location)

Why Join Us?

At Praxis, you’ll be part a business on a proven growth trajectory, backed by strong investors and powered by a unique fully integrated UK commercial real estate platform.

This is a career-defining opportunity for Senior Building Surveyor who thrives in fast-paced, ambitious environments and wants to deliver meaningful impact across a growing organisation.

Values

Professionalism | We consistently seek to exceed expectations. Our people can express themselves fully while upholding the highest standards of conduct, competence, and integrity.

Ownership | Every asset, challenge, and opportunity is treated as our own. We deliver all real estate services in-house — never outsourcing responsibility, accountability, or blame.

Entrepreneurialism | We challenge convention and champion imaginative solutions. Rigorous debate is encouraged, and everyone is empowered to make decisions that elevate performance.

Meritocracy | Results, hard work, and strong ideas matter more than age, tenure, or titles. We are a diverse team that collaborates openly so each person can reach their full potential.

Action This Day | We do not defer or delay. Anything that can be done today, is done today.