Prime Residential Building Surveyor - AssocRICS, MRICS, FRICS - Home working - X3 openings

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Prime Residential Building Surveyor – AssocRICS / MRICS / FRICS – Home working – Hiring in London / Greater London (All locations considered, multiple openings available)

Established around five years ago, my client is a well-respected, friendly team who are committed to delivering a quality service to their customers.

They have a genuine focus on quality over quantity - Four to five L3 Surveys per week with one day per week in the office or at home reserved for report writing.

They offer market-leading training and support to all their surveyors, which covers bespoke building surveying training including drone training for all the Surveyors.

Offering:

  • Basic salary: £48-£67,000 per annum (agency approx.).
  • Flat 5 - 10% commission depending on agreement, paid monthly on net fees (average total commission is around £10 - £30,000 per annum, on top of basic).
  • Pension contributions in line with government requirements.
  • 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays.
  • Private Healthcare package (with Vitality).
  • 4-day annual sales conference (all expenses paid) – typically overseas.
  • Regular company social evenings (all expenses paid) – Bowling, ping pong, cricket etc – typically once a quarter.
  • All RICS membership and CPD are paid for.
  • £2.5K-£5K car allowance paid on top of basic salary, depending on package.

Other key information:

  • For their turnaround, they target their team with 2-3 days, which they believe is easily achievable with the systems they have in place.
  • For reporting, they use Go Report which allows for efficiency while on-site - not the standard off-the-shelf report from Go Report.
  • In terms of the technology they offer their surveyors, they provide: iPhone Max phones, Mavic drones (as part of recruitment you will become CAA certified), thermal imaging cameras (+ PC laptop would be provided).
  • Their average fee is approx. £1500 plus.
  • Manual and automated bookings system – they have an excellent CRM system that automates lots of the processes with the team still liaising with estate agents/clients/vendors to arrange the booking.
  • Experienced admin support team to help you daily; their sales team generates all the bookings, and the admin support organizes all the bookings, creates the site notes, and sanitizes emails (any non-technical queries are responded to). The admin support team is in place to free up the surveyors’ time to focus on surveys/valuations and technical queries.

All figures quoted above are approx. and possibly there will be additional car allowance / bonus payments.

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