Regional Building Surveyor

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, including both reactive and planned maintenance. In addition to this you will:

• Lead diverse projects, from essential repairs to rejuvenating refurbishments and exciting fit outs
• Manage contract and tender documentation
• Fulfil CDM duties, including being principal designer
• Conduct planned preventative maintenance inspections
• Oversee building maintenance
• Perform acquisition and disposal surveys
• Offer dilapidations advice
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders
Working arrangements

To be successful in this role you will:
• 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:
1. acquisition and disposals surveys 2. health and safety 3. defects analysis 4. maintenance inspections and management of remedial works 5. coordinating with stakeholders including with contractors and consultants 6. access audits 7. building pathology 8. dilapidations 9. fit-out design 10. 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.

At British Heart Foundation, we are focused on the urgent need to fund more research into heart and circulatory diseases like heart diseases, stroke, vascular dementia, and the conditions that cause them, to find answers fit for 21st century challenges. We are independent, have more than fifty years of breakthroughs under our belts and continue to fund lifesaving research., The interview process will be over two stages, with the first stage held virtually over Microsoft Teams. 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.

Our benefits include:
• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical insurance, dental health cover, and money towards gym membership
• Pension scheme with employer contribution up to 10%
• Full pay for 12 weeks for family leave including maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Life assurance
• Extra paid leave of up to 10 days to support colleagues who may need more time off work to look after themselves or others close to them