Senior Chartered Building Surveyor

Job description

SENIOR CHARTERED BUILDING SURVEYOR | BRISTOL

Bristol / South West

60% Office or Client Site | 40% Home

Permanent

Are you an MRICS Chartered Building Surveyor looking for a broader role where you can genuinely own your work, build client relationships and avoid being boxed into one narrow specialism?

I’m looking to speak with experienced Senior Building Surveyors for a varied commercial building consultancy opportunity in Bristol.

This is a hands-on, client-facing role covering both professional and project services, with plenty of autonomy and the opportunity to take instructions from initial brief through to delivery.

What you’ll be working on

Condition and pre-acquisition surveys

Technical due diligence and defect diagnosis

Dilapidations and schedules of condition

Refurbishment, repair and maintenance projects

Specifications and schedules of work

Tendering, procurement and contract administration

Employer’s Agent and project delivery responsibilities

⚖ Party Wall, CDM and Building Regulations matters

Client meetings, advice and stakeholder management

Fee proposals, repeat instructions and business development

Mentoring and supporting junior surveyors

What we’re looking for

✔ MRICS Chartered Building Surveyor

✔ Minimum 3 years post-qualification experience

✔ Current commercial building consultancy experience

✔ Strong professional services experience, ideally including surveys, TDD, dilapidations and defects

✔ Project delivery experience across specifications, tendering, procurement and contract administration

✔ Confidence managing clients and contractors directly

✔ Strong technical report writing and commercial judgement

✔ Comfortable managing several instructions independently

Experience across offices, industrial/logistics, retail, mixed-use, education, healthcare or student accommodation would all be relevant.

⭐ Particularly attractive backgrounds

We’re especially interested in surveyors who have developed in small or mid-sized commercial consultancies where they have had genuine ownership of their work.

If you’re currently in a larger consultancy, that can absolutely work too, provided you can demonstrate broad hands-on experience rather than being limited to one specialist service line.

Why consider it?

This opportunity would suit someone who wants:

A genuinely broad building surveying remit

More ownership of client instructions

Direct exposure to senior decision-makers

A mix of professional and project work

The chance to mentor and develop others

Greater visibility over your own client relationships and career progression

A Bristol-based hybrid working model, with client-site days counting toward office attendance

You’ll need to be practical for the Bristol office and client sites, with the role operating on a 60% office/site and 40% home basis. A valid UK driving licence is also required.

If you’re MRICS with 3+ years PQE and want a role where you can combine technical expertise, project delivery and genuine client ownership, I’d love to hear from you.

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Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

Greater Bristol Area

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

21-08-2026

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English