Senior Building Surveyor (Hiring Immediately)

Role Title - Senior Building Surveyor

Location - National (flexible base location with travel required as needed)

Our construction team is undergoing a significant transformation with a focus on insourcing and in-house development across our project portfolio. As part of the RM Engineering family, we have a mission to design, develop and deploy future ready, innovative solutions across our property, automation and maintenance teams. Our focus is now on recruiting talented, driven construction professionals to support the success of our strategy.

This exciting, newly created opportunity for an experienced Building Surveyor will play a key role in shaping safe, efficient and future ready buildings across our national estate. This is a hands-on, onsite role where you’ll use your technical surveying expertise to support new builds, refurbishments, defect investigations and estate improvement projects. If you enjoy being out on the road, solving problems and delivering high quality building solutions, this role offers real visibility and impact.

The Role

• As a Building Surveyor you will carry out detailed building fabric surveys, condition assessments and intrusive investigations.
• Producing technical reports, feasibility studies, scopes, specifications and schedules of work.
• Supporting fabric design development, including layouts, detailing, compliance reviews and performance standards.
• Managing building condition data, asset lifecycle assessments and investment recommendations.
• Preparing tender documentation such as specifications, Bills of Quantities and quality standards.
• Providing technical assurance on site, including inspections, compliance checks, snagging and support through defects and warranty periods.
• Ensuring full compliance with Building Regulations, fire safety, access standards, planning constraints and internal governance requirements.
• Working with CDM duty holders to manage design risks, safe construction methods and clear communication of residual risks.

Skills & Experience

• Strong building surveying background with experience in fabric assessment, defect diagnosis and technical reporting.
• Good knowledge of Building Regulations, fire safety, access standards and compliance frameworks.
• Ability to produce scopes, specifications, drawings and other technical documents.
• Confident in design risk management with practical experience of CDM 2015 and construction H&S legislation.
• Highly organised, able to juggle multiple projects while maintaining governance and accurate records.
• Strong communicator with the ability to influence stakeholders across project teams, contractors and internal partners.
• Experience working on refurbishment, planned maintenance or compliance based projects, ideally within a construction or estates environment.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary engineering teams and contributing to design assurance or technical governance.

Qualifications

• Degree in Building Surveying or significant equivalent experience.
• MRICS status or working towards it (preferred).