National Building Fabric Surveyor

National Building Fabric Surveyor

Location: London or Remote | Open to Candidates Nationwide | Regular UK-Wide Travel Required

Salary & Benefits: £60,000–£65,000, plus a Band 4 company car or car allowance and private healthcare

Hours of Work: 40 Hours per Week

Contract Type: Permanent

Our client, a leading provider of facilities services in the UK, is seeking an MRICS-qualified National Building Fabric Surveyor to deliver building fabric surveying, inspections and condition assessments across a national retail banking estate.

Job Overview

This role is responsible for providing the technical evidence that underpins fabric assurance, maintenance planning and lifecycle investment decisions across a large, multi-site estate. The successful candidate will ensure building fabric data is accurate, consistent and suitable for assurance, maintenance and investment planning purposes.

Working closely with national assurance and engineering teams, you will undertake planned condition surveys, targeted inspections, audit surveys and defect investigations. You will support a risk-based building fabric management strategy through the use of enhanced surveying techniques, helping to improve defect diagnosis, building performance assessment and evidence-led decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the primary building fabric surveyor across a UK retail estate, supporting the National Building Fabric Assurance Lead.
• Undertake building condition assessments, fabric inspections, audits and defect investigations across the national portfolio.
• Collect, validate and manage survey data, ensuring accuracy, consistency and compliance with required standards.
• Support the development of lifecycle plans, maintenance strategies and risk-based fabric management programmes.
• Contribute to the implementation of fabric risk and criticality frameworks, including surveys, inspections, maintenance and escalation processes.
• Manage and communicate fabric risks, landlord and occupier responsibilities, and maintenance priorities through clear client reporting.
• Coordinate specialist technical services, including RICS surveyors, structural engineers, UAV surveys and thermal imaging activities.
• Prepare Capital Investment Proposals and works packages supported by lifecycle costing, risk assessments and condition data.

Person Specification

• MRICS-qualified Building Surveyor.
• Strong building fabric, pathology and condition survey experience within retail, banking or multi-site commercial environments.
• Experience developing and governing risk-based fabric management frameworks covering maintenance, surveys, inspections, audits, lifecycle planning and risk escalation.
• Proven ability to assess, manage and communicate fabric risk and criticality, including estate risk registers, priority scoring methodologies and landlord/occupier responsibilities.
• Experience preparing Capital Investment Proposals and works demand packs across CAPEX, REVEX and OPEX programmes.
• Knowledge of lifecycle costing, risk-based asset planning and evidence-led investment recommendations.
• Experience managing external surveying providers, structural engineering referrals, survey quality assurance processes and supplier performance.
• Strong report writing, analytical and stakeholder management skills, with experience maintaining auditable evidence and data quality standards.

Additional Requirements

• Full UK driving licence essential.
• Regular national travel required.
• Company car or car allowance provided.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work across a high-profile national retail banking estate.
• Exposure to large-scale estate assurance, lifecycle planning and capital investment programmes.
• Involvement in innovative surveying techniques and evidence-led asset management strategies.