Senior Building Surveyor

Milton Keynes
1 day ago
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About The Role
As part of our wider LSE Building Surveying team, you’ll join our friendly Milton Keynes office, working in a supportive and collaborative environment. You’ll have the autonomy to manage your own projects and clear opportunities for career development.

This can also be a blended role combining the expertise of a Senior Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Surveyor and a building surveyor, applying drone technology innovatively across the built environment. You’ll operate drones across sectors such as property, land, rail, and renewables, using your surveying knowledge to interpret and apply the data captured.

You’ll be part of a team delivering a full range of professional and project-related building surveying services across both private and public sectors from design, specification, and contract administration to building surveys, dilapidations, and clerk of works duties. Working alongside project leaders, you’ll help ensure high-quality service delivery, knowledge sharing, and successful client outcomes, while contributing to our culture of innovation and excellence.

Your core duties will involve:
Delivering projects, commissions, and professional assignments from inception to completion
Maintaining effective communication to ensure all information is available for the successful completion of projects and liaising with other managers to ensure efficient financial control
Delivering all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner
Representing the company in a professional and diligent manner, meeting, negotiating and corresponding with clients to form strong and long-lasting working relationships
Requirements:
BSc in building surveying or equivalent
Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) beneficial
Good technical writing and communication skills (both internal and external)
Proficient skills in the use of AutoCAD and NBS beneficial
Experience in the higher education, local government and healthcare sectors beneficial
Significant exposure to, and good working relations with, private and public sector clients beneficial
Well-developed skills in the areas of surveys, project management, clerk of works, repairs and maintenance beneficial
Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined and commercially astute
Outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful and flexible when speaking to colleagues and client alike

Benefits: Competitive package of employee benefits including pension, private healthcare, flexible working, 25 days’ holiday with the option to buy additional days, £400 a year towards gym/healthy living membership and much more.

About The Company
Why choose Currie & Brown?
Unlike some businesses, we prioritise for the long term and honour our commitments. We are compassionate and inclusive in the way we approach our work, and always look to invest in our people’s futures. Be it a desire to work internationally, a drive to progress, or even a curiosity to operate in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage – providing advice, support and the structure to achieve. That is why so many of us have established and built successful careers here for so long.
We are an international industry leader – Working for us provides the chance to work for a leading brand with a focus on excellence, being digitally-led in our approach, we present the chance to work on some of the world’s most prestigious projects and for some of the world’s top clients.
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work everyday and that is why we firmly believe equality, diversity and inclusion should be fundamental in creating a successful work force

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