Regional Building Surveyor - Central England & North Wales

Are you a highly motivated Building Surveyor, with a successful track record in managing repair, refurbishment, and fit-out projects within an extensive property portfolio?

As our Regional Building Surveyor, you'll manage our Retail Division's property portfolio in the Central England and North Wales region, spanning 220+ leasehold shops and stores.

Your region includes Cheshire, Greater Manchester, North Wales, Shropshire, Merseyside, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Suffolk, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Surrey, Greater London, and Essex. Additionally, you’ll support stores nationwide to meet emergent requirements.

You’ll deliver a full range of building surveying services, both reactive and planned maintenance including:

• leading diverse projects, from essential repairs to rejuvenating refurbishments and exciting fit outs
• managing contract and tender documentation
• fulfilling CDM duties, including being Principal Designer
• conducting Planned Preventative Maintenance inspections
• overseeing building maintenance
• performing acquisition and disposal surveys
• offering dilapidations advice
• building strong relationships with stakeholders

Working arrangements

This is a home-based role with extensive travel throughout Central England & North Wales, primarily your regional patch, though periodically extending across the country. You will be required to live with in the region counties stated above.

Need more help balancing your work and home life? Talk to us about what flexibility is available at the application or interview stage.

About you

To be successful in this role you'll:

• possess a professional building / construction management qualification (MRICS, MCIOB)
• have sound technical knowledge of all legislation relating to the fit-out and occupation of leasehold retail premises (Building Regulations, Planning, CDM, Fire Safety Order, Health & Safety and Asbestos)

• have extensive experience in all key aspects of traditional building surveying disciplines, including:
  • acquisition and disposals surveys
  • health and safety
  • defects analysis
  • maintenance inspections and management of remedial works
  • coordinating with stakeholders including with contractors and consultants.
  • access audits
  • building pathology
  • dilapidation's
  • fit-out design
  • contract administration

• be a highly effective team player with strong interpersonal, influencing, and decision-making skills.

It would be advantageous if you have specific experience in developing and maintaining a large retail estate.

What can we offer you?

To find out more about the benefits available at the BHF please download our benefits document at the bottom of our advert page

About us

We value and respect every individual’s unique contribution, celebrate diversity, and make inclusion part of what we do every day.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Strategy, Igniting Change, along with our internal EDI group, Kaleidoscope, and a growing number of employee network groups (our Affinity Groups), help us create an environment where all our colleagues and volunteers can succeed.

Interview process

The interview process will be two stages, with the first stage held virtually over Microsoft Teams.