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.
Apply now
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