Chartered Building Surveyor

Company Description

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At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

As Senior/Chartered Building Surveyor you will be an independent person delivering a wide variety of more complex professional and higher value contract services for public and private clients. You will also be responsible as delivery lead working with other team members and AECOM staff from other parts of the business to deliver a service.

There will be a focus on client care, mentoring, team management, service delivery and business development both externally and internally within AECOM. You will manage the implementation of new technologies and ensure compliance with relevant legislation.

Additionally you will demonstrate a strong commitment to building and maintaining client relationships, while also overseeing the financial management of multiple projects, including client invoicing through AECOM’s Workbench project management system. As a leader of the local team, you will ensure financial targets are consistently achieved. As a recognized expert in building surveying, you will bring a robust background in design and contract administration to every project undertaken.

Here’s what you’ll do

• Lead on individual Building Surveying, Project Management, and Contract Administration commissions
• Client development skills to develop business with existing clients and confidence to win new work
• Continuous improvement to our standards, processes and knowledge to deliver to our core clients
• Mentoring and developing Graduate Building Surveyors and other team members
• Comply with all QSE procedures
• Establish client briefs, appropriate fees, and cost control through to completion
• Financial, commercial and risk management from project inception through to completion on own projects
• Conducting a portfolio of fee based activities with our key multi sector client base
• Fully involved in or managing others for the production of drawings, specifications and tender documents
• Survey and Report writing for the full range of typical core Building Surveying services
• Construction monitoring and quarterly snagging assessments

If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don't just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives. Why not give our AECOM page on LinkedIn a follow to stay updated on the impactful projects we're working on and see firsthand the difference we're making in the industry!

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Ideally Degree qualified in Building Surveying
• Chartered Status Holder
• Sound technical ability for the advisory and project disciplines within building surveying.
• Strong JCT administration experience
• NEC3/4 knowledge preferred.
• Ability to travel for short periods for work delivery within UK and Worldwide.
• Act as a mentor for team members
• Willing to be Security Cleared Experience
• Experience in all core Building Surveying work areas especially design and project management
• Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams
• Excellent client and team interpersonal skills
• Be decisive - Know how to prioritize, advocate focus and accountability
• Be impactful - Use clear and frequent communications, drive execution and results.
• Be client-focused - Be collaborative, innovative and strategic.
• Be the role model - Lead by example, demand excellence, maintain safety and integrity as top priorities.

Additional Information

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

 

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address ReasonableAccommodationsUKI@aecom.com  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.