Senior Building Surveyor/Project Manager

At Bellrock, we harness technology to give our customers an experience that not only leaves them with advanced building systems. But with peace of mind. And we unlock that by being technology-led, but people-driven. So when you’re part of Bellrock, you’ll get everything you need to be your best at work - because our people are the heart of our business. And we’re all about helping them to shine.

John Rowan and Partners, part of Bellrock Group was formed in Ealing, London in April 1982. An award winning, multi-disciplinary property and construction consultancy, delivering projects worldwide. We have a proven track record of nurturing and developing talent and over the past 38 years we have worked hard to create an environment that is innovative and fun as well as empowering and progressive. We demonstrate our values in the achievement of our goals and we have a vibrant, energetic and caring way in which we do this.

We’re introducing this exciting role to join our vibrant and expanding Public Sector Regeneration team to carry out a variety of building surveying work on a broad mixture of residential and public sector properties.

Within the Public Sector Regeneration team, this role will focus on pre and post contract work such as feasibility studies, tender docs, contract admin as well as stakeholder management.

• You have a passion for developing yourself and others.
• You have excellent attention to detail.
• You enjoy working with external stakeholders of all levels.
• You have a client focused approach with the ability to identify client benefits.
• You’re a strong believer in inter-departmental collaboration.
• You have a natural curiosity to seek out and deliver better working practices and efficiency initiates.

How will you be the change?

We believe every role is essential to providing that peace of mind for our customers - whatever part of the business you’re in. Because every role plays a part in driving us further. And everyone can be the change. That’s how deliver value for our customers, and building systems that lead the way

And as a Senior Building Surveyor/Project Manager with John Rowan & Partners, you’ll do it by…

• You’ll be managing instructions and projects.
• You’ll be responsible for collating and writing reports.
• You’ll be managing and mentoring junior team members.
• You’ll be contributing to the team’s skill base developing efficient working practices.
• You’ll be collaborating and managing external stakeholders in order to understand and fulfil the client’s needs.
• You’ll be managing client projects and looking for opportunities for new client development.
• You’ll be producing tender documents including specifications, preambles and preliminaries using NBS or similar packages.
• You’ll be proactive in identifying risks with robust mitigation strategies.
• You’ll be producing management reports and communicating progress and forecasts to the client team, including all pre and post contract management duties.
• You’ll be attending sites, as well as internal and external client facing meetings.
• You’ll be aware of and keep up to date with relevant legislation which affects the properties managed by our clients.
• Assisting in promoting sustainable thinking to our clients and have a basic level of understanding as to how to integrate sustainable thinking into our projects

What does it take?

If you’re ready to be the energy that helps us build our business, share our success, and really own it as a [ROLE TITLE], you’ll need…

• You are a fully Chartered Building Surveyor (MRICS), with a minimum of two years post qualification experience OR; You have a Building Surveying degree awarded by a UK university accredited by the RICS. 
• You have experience of dilapidations, for both tenants and landlords.
• You have demonstrable experience of technical due diligence surveys.
• You have a solid understanding and demonstrable experience in defect diagnosis and planned maintenance schedules.
• You’ll have demonstrable experience in party wall and neighbourly advice.
• You have demonstrable experience of writing building condition reports and schedules of condition.
• You have a solid understanding and demonstrable experience of building reinstatement cost assessments.
• You have demonstrable experience of advising owners and occupiers on maintenance and statutory responsibilities.
• A solid understanding of contract administration.
• You are proficient in AutoCAD with a good working knowledge in all Microsoft Office packages.
• You have a full clean driving license.