Building Surveyor (Heritage and Conservation)

Faithful+Gould is a world leading construction consultancy, with a great reputation for delivering a variety of cost, project and asset management consultancy services to a diverse client range. We place great emphasis on staff training and development which allows us to provide an unrivalled level of service. Join us and you’ll benefit from a development programme designed to ensure great career experience and opportunities are provided for you to take advantage of.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Building Surveyor with a proven ability and specialism for working with architecturally and historically important heritage assets, to join a growing building surveying team of heritage specialists in London. We provide expert advice and building surveying services to clients, working on high profile projects across the UK including scheduled monuments and World Heritage Sites. Our growing reputation for innovation and approaching heritage differently has enabled us to look to strengthen our built heritage expertise in London. It’s an exciting time to be joining the team, and if you enjoy working on a diverse range of projects and being part of a multi-disciplinary team within a large organisation, then we would be interested to hear from you. 
 
The Role:

The  Building Surveyor role is aimed at candidates who have the technical expertise in delivering Building Surveying Services to clients, combined with a background and understanding of the historic environment; particularly across conservation. The post-holder will work closely with the Senior Surveyors and Associate Director who leads on Built Heritage Services for Faithful+Gould in our London Office.

The key features of the role include:

You will be responsible for managing small to medium scale projects and therefore will be confident in delegating where necessary and/or asking for support and advice from the more senior members of the team. You will be client focused, looking at opportunities to reduce risk and issues associated with the historic environment in development schemes. This will require close working with other specialists to realise innovative solutions to design.

The individual:
The successful applicant will be expected to demonstrate the following:

• Strong communication skills and the ability to build rapport with people/clients easily
• Keen interest in historic and traditional buildings
• Professional manner and outlook
• An ability to manage your time effectively
• Ability to solve problems
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Commercially aware
• Builder of strong working relationships
• Self-motivated with a desire to learn and develop yourself
• Able to work alone and as part of a team
• Good report and letter writing skills
  

Faithful+Gould have been crowned Construction Consultant/ Surveyor of the year in the 2015 Building Awards! This is the second time in four years Faithful+Gould have won this prestigious title. We are also a finalist once again at the 2016 Building Awards.

Rewards and Benefits
Faithful+Gould offer a comprehensive reward package including: